"Our dad volunteered, saying: 'Youth should live, give birth and raise children, and I should protect you. If not me, then who?' He was the best dad and grandfather. He went through the war in #Afghanistan, but not this one..." recalls his daughter #Daria.

Junior Sergeant #Yuriy_Shapran, call sign #Batya, died on February 15, 2024, near the village of #Novoselivske in #Luhansk Oblast while performing a combat mission as a result of enemy shelling. He was 55 years old.