Senior soldier, serviceman of the 25th Separate Airborne Brigade Oleksandr Khyzhniak, who had been considered missing for more than a year, was killed in action while carrying out a combat mission in Donetsk region. His identity was established through DNA analysis.
Oleksandr Khyzhniak was born on 7 April 1998 in the village of Staiky, Kyiv region. After getting married, he lived in the village of Pidhirtsi in the Stryi community. He studied at Staiky School, and later continued his education at a vocational lyceum in the town of Ukrainka.
In 2019 the serviceman signed a contract to serve in the Armed Forces of Ukraine and, as noted, fulfilled his duty conscientiously. While on a combat mission near the settlement of Lysivka in Pokrovsk district, Donetsk region, he went missing. For more than a year he was searched for as a missing person, until DNA analysis confirmed the defender’s death.
Until the very end, his parents, sisters, brother, wife and little son, as well as the entire family, waited for Oleksandr to come home. Eternal and blessed memory to the fallen defender.