Yevhen “Grapper” Sliusarenko died heroically during an execution of a combat mission.
He was born on December 25, 2001 in Kyiv. In 2019 he graduated Kyiv Natural and Scientific Liceum No. 145 and entered Grinchenko University (Specialty “Computer Sciences”).
Yevhen liked sports. In 2018 he became the Champion of Ukraine in pankration, and in 2019 he became the prizewinner of the championship of Ukraine in grappling.
From the beginning of the full-scale invasion of the Russian occupying forces, Yevhen participated in the defense of Kyiv as part of a volunteer battalion. Since March 2022, as part of the special forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, he continued to defend Ukraine from the Russian invasion, he died in the village of Vilkhivka, Kharkiv region, on April 22, 2022 while performing an official task.
Fighters of “Liuti” unit (“Wild” in Eng.) exposed the location of the enemy group, which is related to the atrocities in Bucha. During the special operation, a significant part of the enemy was destroyed. The remnants of the group called to the aid of tanks that began mortar fire. The command to leave was given. Yevhen was delayed, he wanted to blow up the enemy tank, but the available weapons were not effective against this modification. He was almost the last to leave the battlefield, and these few seconds of delay turned out to be fatal. While leaving the place of the combat mission, the group came under mortar fire, which was corrected by a drone from the air. Dodging the shelling, the car ran into an anti-tank mine. Died from a mine explosion with three comrades of his unit.
He was buried on April 27, 2022 at the old cemetery in Kaniv on the slopes of the Dnieper near Chernecha Hill.
On June 2, 2022, by decree of the President of Ukraine, he was awarded the Order “For Courage” of the third degree.
Died on April 27, 2022