Sergey Ilchenko 39 years, 169 training center "Desna", personnel officer, major. Callsign "Sloth".

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Married, father of two children. Since the childhood dreamed to become a soldier, so he graduated from Krivoski boarding school with enhanced physical training, the Odessa Institute of land forces. After training he was sent to serve in the village of Desna, Kozelets district, Crnko area. In the area of the ATO arrived in July 2014. On the 4th day, exposing the block posts around Gorlovka, came with my brothers in an ambush from which he miraculously escaped. A month later received complex wound under the Maori from the fragment of a castle. In his left hand snatched the brachial artery. "I still wouldn't understand what happened, can't get up and hand don't work. I picked up the guys and dragged him into the dugout". Survived Sergei sadaaki the efforts of a military doctor Yury Vitalyevich, which now considers his brother. After that he was sent for treatment in debaltseve, Kharkov, then the Board up to the Kiev hospital. "It is in the hospital, I realized that the support of volunteers. Their attitude towards us was special, and the medical staff did everything for the fighters. The impression was that we cared."

Then seven long months of rehabilitation. Now the disabled of the 3rd group, but the service is not going to resign. Want to convey the experience of youth that comes to the service. Teaches them the main rules of war that they learned myself. To be constantly at the ready, weapons are always near, drink, hang out, to keep silence, to speak less and to listen carefully.

For Sergey war is pain, he does not understand why former schoolmates they were on different sides , but to call them and convince them that they're wrong doesn't want. "I don't know who mesmerizes them, I believe in their country, respect the flag, and realize that the one who was breaking into our house with guns - enemy".

Life principle: "If we are not evolving, we are devolving"

For personal courage and professionalism shown during the defense of state sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine, fidelity to the oath he was awarded the order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky III degree.

photo by Roman Nikolayev

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