Junior Sergeant Vasyl Hnatyuk from the Sokal community has been posthumously honoured with the Combatant’s Cross “For Courage and Loyalty to the Military Oath”. The decoration of the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Mykhailo Drapatyi, was presented to the wife of the fallen warrior, Tetiana Hnatyuk.
Vasyl Hnatyuk lived in the village of Zavyshen in the Sokal community. At the time of his death, he was 47 years old. From the first days of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, he stood up in defence of the state.
The serviceman held the position of commander of the second engineering and camouflage squad of the first engineering and camouflage platoon of the engineering and camouflage company of military unit A4733.
On 24 July 2024, Vasyl Hnatyuk was killed when an enemy drone struck a vehicle near Kostiantynivka in Donetsk region.
Eternal honour and blessed memory to the defender.