On October 7 in Stepanki village of Cherkassy region the funeral of a captain of civil protection service Sytnik Vladimir Nikolaevich, who in 2014 served in the 55th State Fire and Rescue Unit of Donetsk took place. He became a victim of pro-Russian fighters.

According to the report of SES of Donetsk region, on August 12, 2014 unknown armed people by force took the captain of the civil protection service Sytnik Vladimir Nikolaevich from the building of the fire-rescue unit of the 1st State Fire and Rescue Unit in Donetsk.

During long three years the destiny of a rescue rangers stayed unknown. Either relatives or friends or staff of Central Administration didn’t stop their attempts to know something about missed and detect his location.

It’s managed to know the fate of lost rescue ranger only on July 5, 2017. That day verbal information from the employee of the Civil-Military Cooperation Department of the Armed Forces that an identification (forensic molecular genetic examination) of the unknown body was made in the Central Administration.

Expertise established at 99.99% that this body is the captain of the civil protection service Sytnik Vladimir Nikolaevich. It was decided to spend the farewell ceremony in the homeland of the deceased.