Vasyl S. Kovalyk

Born on October 28, 1991, in the village of Yablunivka, Buzka district, Lviv region. Completed 9 grades of the general education school in the village of Yablunivka, in 2011 graduated from the Technological College of the National Forestry University of Ukraine in Lviv. From 2011 to 2012, he served his mandatory military service in the 31st Separate Communications and Control Regiment of the Air Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (military unit A0799, Kyiv). In the spring of 2014, he was mobilized into the Armed Forces of Ukraine. He served in the 24th Separate Mechanized Samara-Ulyanovsk Berdychiv Iron Order of the October Revolution, three-time Order of the Red Banner, Orders of Suvorov and Bohdan Khmelnytsky Brigade named after Prince Daniel of Galicia of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (military unit A0998, Yavoriv, Lviv region). Since the summer of 2014, he participated in the anti-terrorist operation in eastern Ukraine. On July 11, 2014, in the area of the village of Zelenopillya, Sverdlovsk (since 2016 - Dovzhansky) district of Luhansk region, around 4:30 in the morning, Russian-terrorist groups shelled the base camp of Ukrainian troops with BM-21 "Grad" multiple rocket launchers. As a result of the shelling, 7 servicemen of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine and 30 servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were killed, among them Vasyl Kovalik, who was considered missing. Thanks to DNA testing, it was established that Vasyl Kovalik was buried at the Kushuhum Cemetery in Zaporizhzhia as an unknown soldier under the number 2563.