Every day at 9 a.m. – a nationwide minute of silence. Stop wherever you are and honor the cherished memory of all those who died for Ukraine as a result of Russian aggression.
🕯️ Andrii Kotyk
A native of the village of Hlukhiv in the Belz community. He served as a driver-electrician in the 3rd information collection and processing squad of the unmanned aerial systems platoon of the artillery reconnaissance battery of military unit A1008. He was killed on June 18. He was 42 years old.
🕯️ Marian Zhovnir
A resident of the village of Horpyn in the Zhovtantsi community. He took up the defense of his homeland at the beginning of the full-scale invasion in February 2022. He served as a rifleman-sniper in a mechanized battalion of military unit 4718. He had been considered missing. He was killed on November 26, 2024, near the settlement of Novoivanivka in the Kursk region. He was 26 years old.
🕯️ Yevhen Buchma
A resident of Lviv. He participated in the Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO). At the beginning of the full-scale invasion, he took up the defense of Ukraine as part of the 103rd Separate Territorial Defense Brigade named after Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytskyi and the 3rd Border Guard Detachment named after Hero of Ukraine Colonel Yevhen Pikus. He was awarded the President of Ukraine’s distinction “For Participation in the Anti-Terrorist Operation” and the honorary distinction “Combatant.” He was killed on June 20, 2025. The soldier was 49 years old.
🕯️ Volodymyr Barbotko
A resident of Lviv. He devoted more than 39 years to military service, holding officer positions in military medical institutions and military units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. He died on June 22. The serviceman was 74 years old.
🕯️ Oleksii Holikov
A native of the city of Ukrainsk in the Donetsk region. In 2023, he took up the defense of his homeland as part of the 23rd Separate Mechanized Brigade. He was awarded the medal “For the Defense of the Homeland.” He was killed on June 16. The soldier would soon have turned 45.
🕯️ Ihor Mantoshko
He lived in the village of Tshchenets. He took up the defense of the country on March 20, 2026. He was killed on June 17 near the settlement of Vasylivska Pustosh in the Kramatorsk district. He was 36 years old.
Eternal honor and remembrance!🕊️