Vitalii V. Kuzmin

Kuzmín Vitaliy Volodymyrovych was born in 1974 in the town of Lysyanka in the Cherkasy region. He lived in the village of Lehedzynе in the Zvenyhorodka district of the Cherkasy region. In 2017–2019, he participated in the Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO) in Donbas. In peacetime, he worked in road construction and as a tractor driver. Since the beginning of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, on March 8, he was enlisted in the tank troops of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. He was a senior soldier, a driver-mechanic of the 3rd tank platoon of the 3rd tank company of the 1st tank battalion. He was killed on July 4, 2022, during an artillery barrage near the village of Bohorodychne in the Donetsk region. He was buried with honors in the village of Lehedzynе in the Cherkasy region.