The death of 33-year-old defender Maksym Sukhorukyi, a native of Sosnivka, has been confirmed. The serviceman of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine had long been considered missing in action.
Maksym Myroslavovych Sukhorukyi served as a private, a border service inspector — head of the first anti-tank missile system group of the first anti-tank division of military unit 9937 of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine.
Contact with the soldier was lost in September 2026, and throughout this time his family and friends hoped for his return. It has recently been definitively established that Maksym Sukhorukyi was killed on 5 September 2026 near the village of Mala Vovcha in the Kharkiv region.
The community extends its sincere condolences to the family, friends, acquaintances and comrades-in-arms of the fallen border guard, sharing the pain of this grievous loss. The memory of Maksym Sukhorukyi and of all those who gave their lives for Ukraine remains a shared duty of society.