a battalion commander of a separate mechanized brigade named after the black zaporozhians, andriy verchoglyadtional hero of ukraine, he died on june 22 at the svetodar arc, he is survived by his parents , his wife and a two-year-old daughter, he is always smiling and cheerful this is how the country will remember the combatant of major andriy verchoglyad, today we said goodbye to the heroes in the st. michael's cathedral, the invaders invaded ukraine andriy was as a sophomore at the academy of ground forces, two weeks after graduation in 2016, he immediately went to the east, where as the commander of a mechanized unit he held the defense of dokuchayevsk, later he defended positions in the avdiiv industrial zone. good day studio. we are now in the hottest spot of our ukraine. lieutenant verkhoglyad it was here that he was wounded, he was near the container and i was covered with shrapnel from the containers, only my left arm and left leg were not hurt. i was lucky that 60 years were removed from his head, and although four such fragments remained in his body, andriy could not help but return