Vasyl V. Kiris

Born on March 1, 1966, in the village of Ivcha, Litin district, Vinnytsia region. In 1983, he graduated from the Ivcha village secondary school. He served his mandatory military service in the ranks of the Armed Forces of the USSR. He lived in the village of Soviet (since 2016 - Litin's Huts) in the Litin district of Vinnytsia region. He worked at the Limited Liability Company "Production Enterprise 'Mario'" (town of Litin, Vinnytsia region). On August 14, 2014, he was mobilized into the Armed Forces of Ukraine by the Khmilnytskyi United District Military Commissariat of Vinnytsia region. He served as a reconnaissance rangefinder in the 1st reconnaissance platoon of the 54th separate guards reconnaissance battalion of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (military unit A2076 (field post V2803), city of Novograd-Volynskyi, Zhytomyr region). Since the fall of 2014, he participated in the anti-terrorist operation in eastern Ukraine. On December 10, 2014, during a battle with an enemy sabotage and reconnaissance group near the village of Kamyanka in the Artemivsk (now Bakhmut) district of Donetsk region, soldier Kiris sustained serious injuries and died during evacuation to the hospital. On December 12, 2014, he was buried in the cemetery of the village of Soviet (since 2016 - Litin's Huts) in the Litin district of Vinnytsia region.