Brothers Viktor and Kostyantyn Kravchenko from the city of Khrystynivka, Cherkasy region, died

in the

Together they defended Ukraine in battles with the Russian invaders in the Kherson region.

This was reported in Khrystynivska City Council.

Military serviceman Konstantinov was 26 years old, and Viktor was only 24 years old.

Apart from two sons, the parents had no more children.

The brothers served in a self-propelled artillery battery of a separate mechanized brigade named after Prince Konstantin Ostrozky, spokeswoman of the Territorial Procurement Center in Cherkasy Oblast Alina Kryvosheya told Suspilny.

"Senior soldiers Viktor and Kostyantyn Kravchenko died on December 23 during artillery shelling in the Kherson region," she said. 

It is noted that the dead soldiers will be buried in Khrystynivka on Wednesday, December 28. 

It will be recalled that on December 7,

with the call sign "Mers", who was part of the 72nd separate mechanized brigade named after the Black Zaporozhians, died in Donetsk region.

Oleksiy fought together with his father Ivan and his brother Andriy, who died in July near Bakhmut.

Their father is now on commission, seriously wounded.

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