Vasyl V. Koshelev

Koshelev Vasyl Volodymyrovich was born on September 15, 1997, in the village of Katerynivka, Kamiansky district, Cherkasy region. After graduating from secondary school, he obtained the profession of a painter-plasterer in the city of Smila, Cherkasy region. At the age of 18, he was conscripted into the Armed Forces of Ukraine, later signed a contract, and served for three years in a military unit in the city of Kolomyia, Ivano-Frankivsk region. Subsequently, he lived in the village of Burkovtsi, Kyiv region. On the first day of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, he was called up to the Armed Forces of Ukraine through mobilization. Due to the fact that Vasyl Koshelev did not have time to reach his military unit, he was assigned to the 72nd Separate Mechanized Brigade named after the Black Zaporozhians. He held the position of deputy commander of a combat vehicle, gunner-operator of the 2nd mechanized company of the 1st mechanized battalion. Together with his comrades-in-arms, he was at the forefront in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, as well as in the Sumy region. He died on April 22, 2022, near the urban-type settlement of Kozacha Lopan, Derhachiv territorial community, Kharkiv district, Kharkiv region. The crew of the BMP-2, which included Vasyl, did not have time to evacuate from the burning combat vehicle.