Igor “Chaka” Kusochek is a fan of the football club “Dynamo” (Kiev).

Igor Aleksandrovich Kusochek was born on June 12, 2004 in the city of Bobrovytsya (Chernihiv region). He lived in the village of Travkino, near Bobrovytsya. He studied at the Bobrovytsia School No. 2, then at the State Vocational Educational Institution “Brovary Vocational Lyceum”, where he received the specialty “installer of sanitary and technical systems and equipment, electric welder of manual welding”.

He actively supported Dynamo Kyiv, supporting the team in the fan sector in his spare time.

According to the memories of friends, Igor was an extremely kind, sensitive person, appreciated every moment of life, was always for justice and loyalty and loved the Motherland with all his heart.

With the beginning of a full-scale invasion, Igor decided to stand in defense of Ukraine. At the time, he was not yet 18 years old, so he had to wait. In January 2023, he applied to the recruiting center of the then Azov regiment, from where Igor's first two attempts were sent back. For the third time everything succeeded and he was mobilized as a recruit to the training center of the National Guard of Ukraine.

Being a recruit under the number 21, during training Igor got into a promotional regiment and photos with him turned out to be so successful that from June his photo was on the main page of “Azov”.

After training, Chuck was assigned to the position of service number of the mortar platoon of the mortar battery of the special purpose battalion of the 12th Azov Brigade. Participated in the counter-offensive of 2023, in the battles for Orikhiv and Kreminna, performed combat tasks in the Lyman direction, in particular, in the area of the Serebryansky forestry.

Igor Kusochek died on September 29, 2024 while performing a combat mission near N.P. Toretske (Donetsk region). Bullet wounds received during the defense of the positions turned out to be incompatible with life. Buried in the village. Travkino in Chernihiv region.

Eternal glory to the Hero!

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