Сергій В'ячеславович. Палешко

Born on April 28, 1986, in the city of Sumy. In 2001, he graduated from general education school, and in 2004 - from the State Vocational and Technical Educational Institution "Sumy Center for Vocational and Technical Education." He served in the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. He worked as a gas-electric welder in shop No. 24 of the Public Joint Stock Company "Sumy Machine-Building Scientific and Production Association named after Frunze" (city of Sumy). On March 24, 2014, he was mobilized into the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. He served in the 27th Reactive Artillery Regiment of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (military unit A1476, city of Sumy). From the summer of 2014, he participated in the anti-terrorist operation in eastern Ukraine. On October 10, 2014, near the village of Pidhorodne in the Artemivsk (now Bakhmut) district of Donetsk region, a conflict arose between Junior Sergeant Paleshko and Senior Lieutenant Oleksandr Zykov in the territory of the base camp of the 27th Reactive Artillery Regiment. During the conflict, the deputy commander of the 8th Reactive Artillery Battery, Senior Lieutenant Zykov, fired one shot from a pistol into the ground and another in the direction of his subordinate. As a result, Junior Sergeant Paleshko received a gunshot wound to the abdomen that was incompatible with life. On October 15, 2014, he was buried in the Alley of Honorable Citizens at the Central Cemetery of the city of Sumy. On May 6, 2016, a memorial plaque was unveiled for him in the hall of the State Vocational and Technical Educational Institution "Sumy Center for Vocational and Technical Education" (7 Oleksandr Shaparenko Street), where Serhiy Paleshko studied.