Profil Dmytro ‘Da Vinci’ Kotsiubailo, Komandan Muda Ukraina yang Kematinya Ditangisi Zelensky

KIEV – Tears of the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenksy could not be stopped when he heard the death of Dmytro “Da Vinci” Kotsiubailo, a young commander Ukraine . He died near Bakhmut, Donetsk Oblast, on March 7.

Zelensky presided over the funeral of the man who won the affection of the Ukrainian public for devoting his entire adult life to fighting Russia and its proxies. It experienced the deadliest battles of the war and remains hotly contested. He leads a unit called the Da Vinci Wolves and was made a Hero of Ukraine last year.

“(Russian President Vladimir) Putin’s mob took our most beautiful sons and daughters,” the priest said during a memorial service at the Golden-Domed St. Petersburg Monastery. Michael’s on March 10, with hundreds of people crowding inside around the bodies of Kotsiubailo and his family.

Kotsiubailo was the commander of the “Da Vinci Wolves” 1st Mechanized Battalion. “He died with a gun in his hands,” his battalion wrote on their official Telegram channel. “He lived and died like a hero,” the post read.

Kotsiubailo was born in the Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast in western Ukraine. He was an active participant in the EuroMaidan Revolution, also known as the Dignity Revolution in 2013-2014, when Ukrainians took to the streets to overthrow then-pro-Russian President Viktor Yanukovych.

Shortly after Russia invaded the Ukrainian Donbass and annexed the Crimean Peninsula, Kotsiubailo took up arms. He was wounded by a Russian tank shell in combat in Donetsk Oblast that same year, but returned to the front after recovering just three months later.

“Eastern Ukraine is really her home,” Melaniya Podolyak, a Ukrainian activist and project coordinator for the Serhiy Prytula Foundation, who knows Kotsiubailo, told the Kiev Independent. He said Kotsiubailo had barely left the front in the nine years of Russia’s ongoing war.