"He didn't go there because of the money. He just didn't want 18-19-year-old boys to die in Ukraine," says the brother of the deceased reserve major Yuri Statilko. "We wanted to go to Ukraine together. I am a colonel in the reserve. But I'm 65 years old, they didn't take me, but they took him. I believe that Valera performed the feat of a real officer.
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Full Name: Valery Alekseevich Statilko
Russian Name: Стативко Валерий Алексеевич
Education: Omsk Higher Combined Arms Command School (graduated 1987); Omsk State Pedagogical University (graduated in 2020 with a master's degree)
Date of Birth: October 15, 1961 (age: 60 years)
"He was drafted into the Armed Forces of the USSR in October 1979. In 1987 he graduated Omsk Higher Combined Arms Command School named after M.V. Frunze. After graduation, he commanded a platoon for 4 years in the reconnaissance amphibious company of the 4th Separate Guards Prague Order of the Red Star of the GSVG Reconnaissance Battalion.""After the collapse of the USSR, he served for 2 years as a company commander in several units of the Ground Forces. Since 1993 he served in the 242nd Airborne Training Center for a year. In the 285th training parachute regiment, he was the commander of a company of training vehicles, in a separate training parachute battalion - assistant to the chief of staff of the unit, in the headquarters of the management of the UC - assistant to the head of the training and operational department. In 2004, he retired to the reserve with the military rank of major."Since 2017, he has worked as an officer educator in the Omsk Cadet Military Corps."He left as a volunteer. He died on April 24 in a mortar attack near the village of Suligovka, Izyumsky district,"
