serhiy railyan is among them. he is a mortarman and commander of the 79th brigade. serhii met a full-scale invasion at positions in the luhansk region near the city happiness. the fighter received numerous injuries and fractures in october 2022, when his car blew up on an anti-tank mine. only the operation on the face lasted 8 hours. for more than a year, he and his wife fought to regain their sight, but without success, even a complex operation in one of the best ophthalmological hospitals in the united states did not help. iryna solomko will tell the defender's story. serhiy railyan joined the armed forces of ukraine immediately after he turned 18, he says, after graduating from university and going to the military. he admits that his decision was influenced by 2014 and russia's occupation of crimea and parts of the donetsk and luhansk regions. from mykolaiv, so he dreamed of joining the ranks of the 79th brigade. it did not succeed immediately, but he met a full-scale invasion already as a soldier of this unit. before the great war, another important event took p