Every day at 9 a.m., there is a nationwide minute of silence. Stop wherever you are and honour the memory of all those who died for Ukraine as a result of Russian aggression.
🕯️Natalia Maksymiv
A resident of the village of Biskovychi, Sambir district. She served as a senior soldier, mechanic-line supervisor of the telecommunications communications platoon of military unit A1859. The soldier’s life was cut short suddenly on 24 August.
🕯️ Sergey Smikhur
A resident of the town of Sosnivka in the Sheptytskyi district. Serhii served in military unit A1556 as a rifleman and assistant grenadier in a mountain assault platoon. Sadly, he was killed on 19 July while carrying out a combat mission near the village of Stepove in the Zaporizhzhia region.
🕯️ Taras Kishka
A resident of the village of Petrych, Zolochiv district. He joined the Armed Forces of Ukraine in April 2025. The soldier was a mortar commander in an assault battalion of a military unit.
He died on 17 August near the village of Primorske in the Zaporizhzhia region. The defender was 25 years old.
🕯️ Karim Shikhar
A resident of Lviv.
He was raised in a highly patriotic Ukrainian family of Evangelical Christians-Baptists.
Participant in the Orange Revolution and the Revolution of Dignity. During the latter, he suffered significant bodily injuries. With the start of the full-scale invasion by Russian occupiers, he voluntarily stood up to defend his homeland. He fought in the Zaporizhzhia and Donetsk regions as part of the 117th Separate Heavy Mechanised Brigade. During his service, he gained professional knowledge and skills in various military specialities, which allowed him to effectively carry out combat missions. He was awarded the distinction of the commander of military unit A7394.
🕯️ Yuriy Ivlev
He was born in the village of Mali Pidliski, Lviv region. In 2023, he stood up to defend his homeland from the Russian invaders. He carried out combat missions in the South Slobozhanskyi direction as part of the 58th separate motorised infantry brigade named after Hetman Ivan Vyhovsky.
🕯️ Sergey Larichev
A resident of Lviv.
He completed his compulsory military service.
In 2023, he stood up to defend his homeland from the Russian invaders. He carried out combat missions in the Donetsk region as part of the 18th Sloviansk Brigade.
He was awarded the Presidential Distinction “For the Defence of Ukraine” and the “War Veteran” badge.
🕯️ Volodymyr Sovgan
A resident of Sambor.
Volodymyr served as a gunner in the assault unit of the 82nd Separate Air Assault Brigade. He was killed in action on 23 October 2023 near the village of Verbove, Polohivsky District, Zaporizhzhia Region.
Eternal honour and glory to all fallen soldiers.
Condolences to the family😢