Viktor V. Kuzmin

Viktor Vyacheslavovych Kuzmin was born on September 26, 1980, in the village of Sudylkiv, Shepetivka District, Khmelnytskyi Oblast. He graduated from Sudylkiv School. He studied at the National Defense University of Ukraine named after Ivan Cherniakhovskyi. In September 2021, at the annual Armed Forces of Ukraine shooting championship, he was the best in practical shooting with the Makarov pistol. He was killed on the first day of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, February 24, 2022, near the city of Svatove in Luhansk Oblast. He was buried on March 13, 2022, in his native village of Sudylkiv in Khmelnytskyi Oblast.