Yevhen “Grepler” Slyusarenko is a fan of the football club “Dynamo” (Kyiv), a representative of the team “North Company”.
Yevgeny Yevgenievich Slyusarenko was born on December 25, 2001 in Kiev. Since 2013, he studied at the Lycea-boarding school No. 23 “Cadet Corps” with enhanced military-physical training, where he received skills in handling weapons. Since 2015, he studied at the Scientific and Natural Sciences Lyceum No. 145, Moscow. Kiev. Since 2019, a student of the University named after Boris Grinchenko at the Faculty of Information Technology. Since 2017, he began working and participated in the development of information projects for commercial structures in the field of IT.
He actively supported Dynamo in the capital and joined the North Company football team. In parallel with this, he was engaged in contact martial arts and achieved significant success. In 2018, Evgeny, under the guidance of coach Oleksandr Hryshko, became the Champion of Ukraine in Pancration, and in 2019 he became the winner of the Ukrainian Grappling Championship.
When the full-scale Russian invasion began, “Grepler” as part of one of the Dobbats took part in the defense of Kiev, and from March continued to defend Ukraine from the Rashists in one of the hottest directions of this war. On April 22, fierce battles with the enemy took place in the village of Vilkhivka (Kharkiv region).)
The fighters of the unit “Fury” exposed the location of the enemy group, which is related to the atrocities in Bucha. During the special operation, they destroyed a significant part of the enemies. The remnants of the group called to the aid of the tanks, which began mortar fire. The command was given to leave. Eugene lingered, wanted to blow up an enemy tank, but the available weapons were ineffective against this modification. He was almost the last to leave the battlefield, and those few seconds of delay proved fatal.
Leaving the combat mission, the group came under mortar fire, which was leveled by a drone from the air. Evading the shelling, the car ran into an anti-tank mine. He died from a mine explosion with three comrades of his unit. Yevgeny Slyusarenko was buried in the old cemetery in the city of Kaniv, on the slopes of the Dnieper near the Chernecy Mountain. On June 02, 2022, by the decree of the President of Ukraine, he was awarded the Order “For Courage” of the third degree.
