Headquarters Chief of Operations - Lieutenant Colonel
Unit: 20th Guards Motor Rifle Division, 8th Guards Combined Arms Army, Southern Military District
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Killed in the same HIMARS strike, on the division command post near Kherson, as Colonel Alexei Gorobets (commander), Colonel Sergey Kens (chief of staff), Colonel Alexei Avramchenko (deputy commander), and Colonel Kanat Mukatov (deputy commander).
Cargo ID: #370
Full Name: Sergey Fyodorovich Koval
Russian Name: Коваль Сергей Фёдорович
Date of Birth: November 27, 1985 (age: 36 years)
Place of Birth: Chernyanka, Belgorod, Russia
Place of Death: Kherson (via HIMARS)
Awards: Order of Courage (ph.), others under investigation
Previously Deployed: Chechnya, Georgia, Syria
In Ukraine, 36-year-old Lieutenant Colonel Sergei Koval from Volgograd died. The military man served as chief of the operational department of the 20th motorized rifle division.
“We received the news of his death on the second day after the incident, he died in July, along with the command,” said the wife of the military Elena. - On the fifth day after his death, we buried him in the Belgorod region.
Elena and Sergey met many years ago, when the military man was still a cadet at the academy.
"Then he immediately left for Chechnya, and then, when he returned, he took me away and we never parted again. He was a true patriot of his country, he was ready to go and defend his homeland, to defend his family,” Elena said. - Sergei went to Ukraine one of the first. As soon as the special operation began. We were still in Armenia then, from there he was transferred to Ukraine.
We have a boy and a girl. And they also grow up as patriots, they are members of the Yunarmiya,” Elena said. - They know from and to the biography of their grandfathers, great-grandfathers. All this they were looking for, taught together with dad. He was like that, and they followed him. I still can't believe what happened, and I don't think I ever will. I love him and always will...
On July 9 and 10, during a special operation in Ukraine, the commander of the 20th Guards Motorized Rifle Division, Colonel Alexei Gorobets , the division's chief of staff, Colonel Sergei Kens, and deputy commander, Colonel Alexei Abramchenko, were killed. In August, in Volgograd, they said goodbye to the deputy commander of the 20th Guards Motorized Rifle Division, Colonel Kanat Mukatov.
