Ivan Surzhuk from Rivne, Ivan Tsipan from the Bereznivka community, and Viktor Kovlev from Volodymyrets region.
This is reported by Rivne24
Ivan Surzhuk, born on July 7, 2004, in Rivne, became a cadet at the academy and participated in the defense of the Kyiv region against Russian occupiers in the spring of 2022. After that, he continued his service in eastern Ukraine. Unfortunately, on February 21, 2026, 21-year-old Lieutenant Ivan Surzhuk was killed as a result of an enemy drone attack in the Donetsk region.
Ivan Tsipan, who was born on May 2, 1994, in the village of Horodyshche, held the rank of soldier and served as a gunner in a mechanized platoon of a mechanized battalion. He defended Ukraine since November 2024, but on February 11, 2025, while performing a combat mission in Donetsk, he was killed, having been missing in action for a long time.
Viktor Kovlev, born in 1980 and residing in the village of Krasnosillya in the Volodymyrets region, served in the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine. He was killed on March 12, 2026, while carrying out combat missions in the Kharkiv region.