Vitalii M. Kravchenko (Hektor)

By profession, he is a military man, having graduated from the Kyiv Institute of Ground Forces. He was a peacekeeper in Kosovo. He served in a military unit in Rava-Ruska, and after being discharged from the Armed Forces of Ukraine, he worked at the Rava-Ruska sleeper treatment plant. He went to the front as a volunteer during the mobilization in August 2014, initially serving in the 4th battalion of the 24th Mechanized Brigade, where he was a company commander, defending the 31st and 29th checkpoints on the "Bakhmutka" road in Luhansk region. In September 2015, he refused demobilization and agreed to continue his service in the ATO for another six months.