Ivan Poplavka

Ivan Poplavka

April 26 is the day of memory of the defender of Ukraine, a serviceman of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Ivan Poplavka (07/28/1998 – 04/26/2026). A native of the village of Karlivka, he graduated from the Galitsynivka secondary school and worked at the local filtration station from the age of 18. In March 2022, having experience in military service, he did not hesitate to defend the Motherland from a full-scale enemy invasion. The soldier passed through the hottest points of the front, was wounded twice and returned to the ranks after treatment, having gone from an attack aircraft to a master of the strike unmanned aviation complex department. The life of the brave Hero was cut short while performing a combat mission near the settlement of Mykolaivka in the Donetsk region.