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Our Beloved US American Brother Karsten Trevor Greenchurch, who had been serving in Ukraine as a Volunteer succumbed on the Battlefield.
Honor, Glory and Gratitude To Our Brother.
Yuri Gaponenko could have lived his years in abundance traveling the world in expensive cars, but on the morning of February 25, 2022, he chose a different route.
Standing in the kitchen of a Kiev apartment, he and his wife listened to the president's address on mobilization.
Behind is the life of a successful banker, co-owner of companies, hunter and biker.
In an hour, a 55-year-old man was already packing a backpack and going to the military comission, at the medical commission talking about titanium beams in the spine.
That morning so many people gathered in front of the Podilsky District Committee that the room did not accommodate everyone.
There was an 80-year-old grandfather with a huge shoulder, some were already out with weapons. Yuri went to register, only waved his hand and asked his wife to go.
She sat in a Porsche Cayenne next to the military commander for a long time, feeling that it was a farewell for a long time.
On February 26, he became a reconnaissance operator and 95th Brigade marksman, buying himself a $10,000 sniper rifle.
Under Makarov was alone on the broken bridge when everyone left. The Russians led the fire, but it miraculously shot, corrected the destruction of several tanks and secured the passage of the unit.
In the summer he moved to the 46th Brigade, taught others to shoot. Under the Bilogirkoû in the Kherson region were losing people, volunteers became less, but Yuri always walked first, pitying young guys.
In December, he fought under Bakhmut, received a scalloped wound in the neck.
Upon arriving at Kyiv he confessed to his wife that the brain does not rest even in sleep. She saw him tired, but he kept quiet and went on.
Under the New Year's Eve was in Soledar, where at night frost reached minus 18. His platoon held their positions for ten days, firing and repelling the enemy, but everyone returned sick - Yuri had pneumonia with fluid in his lung.
On February 1, he last called his wife: they are going on a mission, there will be no contact for three days.
On February 2, under Soledar, their group of nine scouts got into battle - everyone was injured.
Yuri received three fractures in his neck that damaged his spine and a severe blow to his lung. The brothers pulled him out of the battlefield, in the car he still had time to say that he does not feel his legs.
He was stabilized, moved to the Dnieper, and later to Kyiv Doctors said: on his feet he will no longer become.
On March 2nd he got worse, on the 6th he fell into a coma, and on March 9th he died. He was buried in Kyiv
It was a man who hunted in Mongolia, fished in Norway, traveled with his wife Canada, America, Asia.
And after the war, I dreamed of staying with her in a house near Chernobyl, on the bank of the Kyiv reservoir.
During the war, she sent photos of the repair, and he promised: "After the war, we will go there and sit there for a month." They didn't make it.
@AdrianTwittman@Oct7NeverForget Trumps' ancient alliance with
Putin has been shameful and pure evil. All the suffering he could have prevented. Its' been a deafening and infuriating crime of omission.
His blather means little.