On March 10, this year, Viktor Soltys from among the 131st separate reconnaissance battalion of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was killed near village of Pisky, Donetsk region, while performing a combat task.

According to a Decree of the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyi No. 177/2020 dated by 12 May, 2020, Junior Sergeant Soltys Viktor Mykolaiovych was posthumously awarded the order “For Courage” 3rd degree for personal courage and selflessness actions displayed in protection of state sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine.

Recently, representatives of local authority and military commissariat visited Nataliia Serhiivna, mother of the reconnaissance man, and handed over to her the order of the perished son.

May the memory of the Hero live forever!