While carrying out a combat mission in the Sumy region, serviceman Roman Romanovych Skakun was killed. The defender joined Ukraine’s defence from the first days of the full-scale invasion.
Roman Skakun held the rank of senior sergeant and served as a gunner in an anti-aircraft machine-gun squad within the 103rd Separate Territorial Defence Brigade named after Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky.
According to available information, on 1 November he was killed near the village of Pavlivka in the Sumy region while performing a combat mission.
The family, friends and comrades-in-arms of the fallen soldier are offered sincere condolences and gratitude for his service. The message underlines the duty to remember the high price of Ukraine’s independence and freedom.