Volodymyr S. Kreminskyi (Loki)

Sailor Volodymyr Kreminskyi (call sign Loki) was killed on August 29, 2022, during an enemy artillery shelling in the vicinity of the village of Bilohirka in the Kherson region. The defender was 28 years old. Volodymyr was born in the city of Khmelnytskyi. He stu at the local educational complex No. 9. Later, he graduated from the Kamianets-Podilskyi Lyceum with enhanced military and physical training. He served his mandatory military service in a military unit subordinate to the Main Intelligence Directorate. After his service, he obtained higher education at the Vinnytsia National Technical University, in the Faculty of "Automobiles and Transport Management." He worked in his specialty in a European network. On the first day of the full-scale Russian invasion, February 24, 2022, Volodymyr, without hesitation, went to fight as part of the 18th Separate Battalion of Marine Infantry of the 35th Marine Brigade. He held the position of a rifleman-paramedic in the assault landing company. During his service, he repeatedly saved his comrades under fire. On July 29, during a battle with the enemy in the Kherson direction, Loki sustained his first concussion. After treatment in the hospital, he immediately returned to his comrades at the front. He told his family: "They are killing our children there, what, are you suggesting I sit back at 28 years old? Who, if not me? Those guys who have two or three children? Accept my decision. I decided that I must be there and defend our country." "Volodymyr was always like that in his decisions. If he said he would do something, we knew it would be to the end, no matter what the issue was. He was a real man, someone you could definitely rely on both physically and morally. He was sunny, bright, kind, reliable, brave, and a defender," says his sister Anna. The serviceman was buried in the Alley of Glory in his hometown of Khmelnytskyi. Volodymyr is survived by his parents and sister. Posthumously, he was awarded the title of "Honorary Citizen of the Khmelnytskyi City Territorial Community."