Who is Bogdan Stefanyshyn and how he died

Bohdan Stefanyshyn is a member of the territorial defense of Kyiv.

His photo and references to him are on the page of his wife, deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Olga Stefanishina.

Bogdan Stefanyshyn married Olga in January 2009.

The couple has two children: daughters.

On March 31, 2022, Olga Stefanyshina reported that Bogdan Stefanyshyn died in the Chernihiv region, Ukraine.

“My beloved man, Bogdan, died from a Russian shell on March 30 near Chernihiv, trying to save people. I will be out of touch with our children. It’s too painful for me. Bitch war,” the deputy wrote on Facebook.

The message about the death of Bohdan Stefanyshyn was also written by the deputy of the Verkhovna Rada Yaroslav Yurchyshyn.

“There are more and more names in this war. Bohdan Stefanyshyn died yesterday while performing the task of escorting a humanitarian mission to deliver medicines and evacuate civilians as a fighter of the territorial defense of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The husband of my friend and colleague Olya. Father of two wonderful daughters. Damn all Russians who try to justify them. Damn this war,” wrote Yaroslav Yurchyshyn on Facebook.

On February 24, 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin staged an open full-scale military invasion of Ukraine, Russian invaders began shelling Ukrainian cities and killing Ukrainians.

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