Volodymyr V. Tsymbarovych

Soldier Volodymyr Tsymbarovych died on November 25, 2022, during an artillery bombardment near the village of Raihorodka in the Luhansk region. The defender was 45 years old. Volodymyr was born in the city of Kozetin, Vinnytsia region. After school, he obtained secondary specialized education at the Kozetin Railway School. He served his mandatory military service. In civilian life, he worked as a security guard and a flaw detector. In his free time, he loved to go fishing. In September 2022, the man was drafted into the Armed Forces of Ukraine. He served in the machine gun unit of the 1st separate rifle battalion of military unit A7085. "I got acquainted with my future husband remotely. Even without seeing him once, I already knew that there was such a 'cool uncle Vova, with whom it is fun, good and with whom you need to say goodbye every evening'. This is how my older son Andrii from the first marriage spoke. Looking ahead, I want to note that Vova was a wonderful father. As in any family, we sometimes had misunderstandings and some problems arose, but when it came to the attitude towards children, it seemed to me that such fathers do not exist. Perhaps my Andriiko once felt this when he said to me at some point: 'I want uncle Vova to be my dad, not someone else.' I always said that my son chose my husband for me. In the almost 24 years we lived together, I never regretted my choice. I now remember some moments with special warmth. For example, when our common son Denys was born, Vova constantly looked into his stroller, worried that everything was in order. He was very proud that he now had two sons. Or how I taught him to hide money from his salary from me, because he gave me everything to the last penny. And also what sometimes annoyed me, but over time I just joked about it - when Vova was going somewhere, he stood in front of the mirror longer than I did, because everything had to be perfect: shiny polished shoes, a sweater of a certain length, and trousers of a certain width, and, of course, splashed with cologne so that it could be heard two floors away. And no one in our family knew how to fry potatoes like him. This was his favorite dish," the fallen soldier's wife said. "He had a sense of empathy. He could empathize and understand others so much that he sometimes cried with them. Many of those who knew him closely said that he was too kind for war. And the brothers-in-arms who were with him said that there, at the front, he turned out to be fearless, determined, brave and reliable. Even before the war, my husband never refused to help anyone, even if that person did not like him, and he rushed to the rescue at the first call. And he never took offense, at least not at his relatives. Even when he should have been offended, he looked for some flaws in himself and asked for forgiveness. And when he came on leave, his character changed somewhat. He became more nervous, more principled, and more closed. Probably because he looked death in the eye, was in such conditions that it is scary to imagine, saw things that he would like to forget, but the memory has recorded forever. And when I asked him if he had a desire to refuse the combat mission, as some others did, he replied with such enthusiasm: 'Of course not! I want my children, mother, and wife to be proud of me, not ashamed! And I'll never betray my brothers-in-arms!' Now we are proud, we remember... But it doesn't make it any easier. They say that the true essence of a person is revealed in trouble. At the beginning of the war, Vova was expecting a summons. He kept thinking that others, among whom there were many acquaintances, were defending their native land, and he was just walking, just working. Therefore, without waiting for the summons, in April he went to the military enlistment office himself and wrote an application as a volunteer. It is precisely on such people and patriots that our Ukraine is now holding, "the wife added. Volodymyr was buried on the Alley of Glory in his hometown. He is survived by his mother Halyna Ivanivna, wife Svitlana, and sons Andrii and Denys. The hero was posthumously awarded the Order of Courage of the III degree.