Serhii Ilnytskyi

Serhii "Sokil" Ilnytskyi, a member of Kyiv City Council from the European Solidarity party, has been killed at the front. 

Source: Petro Poroshenko, 5th president of Ukraine and current MP and head of the European Solidarity party on Facebook; European Solidarity.

"A great loss for all of us. A friend, a member of Kyiv City Council from the European Solidarity party, Serhii Ilnytskyi, has been killed.

He has been fighting for our Ukrainian Donbas since 2014. He died there, in Donbas, near Kurdiumivka."

Poroshenko says Ilnytskyi’s funeral will take place in Kyiv.

The body of the City Council member and a defender were evacuated.

The party's website notes that Colonel Serhii Ilniyskyi (alias Sokil,) first deputy commander of Dmytro Yarosh’s Ukrainian Volunteer Army and commander of the Ukrainian Volunteer Army detachment Pivden (South) as part of the 28th separate Mechanised Brigade, became a member of the Kyiv City Council from the European Solidarity Party in April 2023.

Ilnytskyi was at the front line from the very beginning of the fighting. A veteran of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, a participant in an anti-terrorist operation, and a retired colonel, he volunteered to serve at the front line following the example of his son, a Hospitaller (volunteer paramedic). As a career soldier, he became the Chief of Staff of the Ukrainian Volunteer Army, and he held the Order of Merit.