Yurii Hrynchuk was mobilized into the army in August of 2014. He served as a senior reconnaissance man of the 54th separate reconnaissance battalion of the Army of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

The servicemen did not live only one month till the termination of military contract. He was killed on July 14, 2015, during mortar shelling of a strong point near settlement of Leninske Donetsk region.

Sergeant Major Yurii Hrynchuk was posthumously awarded the order “For Courage” 3rd degree.

On the occasion of the fifth anniversary of Yurii Hrynchuk’s death, his daughter Yuliia posted in social media sites a poem dedicated to her father.

– Years pass by, but we don’t still believe that he went away, - Yuliia Mykolaievska says. – It is pity that he will not see his grandson. Artem is only nine months but he inherited a strong-willed nature of his grandfather. My son is persevering, he always achieves that he wants. He derived these personality traits from his grandfather.