In Zolochiv district, state awards and honours were presented to the families of six fallen soldiers for their courage and service in defending Ukraine. The awards were presented by the head of Zolochiv District State Administration, Vasyl Markevych, the Zolochiv District State Administration of Lviv region reported.
The Order “For Courage” 3rd Class was posthumously awarded to Private Yaroslav Nalysnyk, a resident of the urban-type settlement of Krasne. He served in military unit A4862. The serviceman died on 13 December 2024 at the Zaporizhzhia Regional Clinical Hospital of the Municipal Non-Commercial Enterprise “Zaporizhzhia Regional Clinical Hospital” of the Zaporizhzhia Regional Council, at the age of 37.
The medal “To the Defender of the Fatherland” was posthumously awarded to three servicemen. Junior Sergeant Andriy Kvasnytsia from Zolochiv served as a gunner in the machine-gun squad of the fire support company in military unit A7076. Since 25 May 2023, he had been considered missing in action while carrying out a combat mission near the village of Lyman Pershyi in Kupiansk district of Kharkiv region. He was 43 years old.
Private Mykhailo Rybchych, a resident of the village of Zadvyria, joined the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in February 2022. He served in the engineer-sapper squad of the engineer-sapper platoon of military unit A7076. The serviceman went missing on 25 May 2023 while performing a combat mission in the area of the village of Lyman Pershyi in Kharkiv region. He was 25 years old at the time of his disappearance.
Private Vasyl Bodnar from the village of Zavodske voluntarily joined the 103rd Separate Brigade of the Territorial Defence Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine named after Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky at the start of the full-scale invasion. He served as a driver in the fire support company of the 64th battalion. The serviceman died on 12 December 2024 at the Military Medical Clinical Centre of the Western Region from severe wounds sustained on 3 September 2024 in the Kursk region. He was 56 years old.
Private Oleh Huliak from the village of Holoskovychi took up arms to defend Ukraine from the first days of the full-scale invasion. He served as a rifleman in the rifle squad of the rifle platoon of the rifle company of the 3rd battalion of a military unit. The soldier was killed on 13 September 2025 while carrying out a combat mission on the outskirts of the village of Bezsalivka in Sumy region. He was 39 years old.
Under an order of the Minister of Defence of Ukraine, the badge of honour “Badge of Distinction” was posthumously awarded to Senior Private Myroslav Koropetskyi, a resident of the village of Voroniaky. He served in military unit A4862 as senior sergeant – commander of a fighting vehicle of the 2nd rocket artillery platoon of a rocket artillery battery. The serviceman was killed on 6 August near the village of Vyshneve in Kamianske district of Dnipropetrovsk region, at the age of 30.
Zolochiv District State Administration expressed its condolences to the relatives and loved ones of the fallen soldiers and thanked them for the selfless service of the defenders.