Vitaliy Tsybora, 21, a senior soldier. One of his comrades, Denys, recalled Tsybora was worried about his mother, but remained confident. “He said to me, ‘don’t worry, we will make it. We will rock Bila Tserkva pubs later.’ Tsybora leaves his mother and a sister in his native Movchanivka village in Zhytomyr Oblast.

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