Alexander “Prots” Protsenko is a fan of the football club “Crystal” (Kherson), a representative of the team “Red Fox”.
Alexander Yurievich Protsenko was born on September 18, 1999 in the city of Kherson. He studied at school No. 34, after which he entered the Kherson professional shipbuilding lyceum No. 5. As a child, he played football in the Kherson section “Education”. Having developed strategic thinking in school years, he won chess competitions. At the age of 15, he focused on martial arts, worked in the club “Shtorm”, began to go to competitions and other sports events.
Alexander always played sports himself and led friends and everyone who wanted to, personally conducted training.
Alexander came to the fan sector “Crystal” in 2015, when he was 16 years old. The following year, after participating in an open training session, he received an invitation to the “Red Fox” team, showing spirit and endurance.
Teammates recall the story of Alexander's entry into the sector: - “In 2015, “Proc” wanted to go to football, called a friend Andrei (Nightingale). Seeing the guys from the sector, they immediately caught fire with it. Found a way to get there and everything worked out. They made their first trip to Nova Kakhovka, which at that time was considered an enemy city. So slowly began to merge into this movement.
“Protsu” began to like the football team more, and he began to put more emphasis on it. To get there, you had to see the basis of the team at that time. So it happened, but before that, Andriy and I had already created their youth ultras team “Yuzhane”.
In 2017, Alexander goes to his first fight in the “Red Fox” against the Odessa residents, at the same time there was his first victory, In 2018 - the next one against Nikolaev. Then the composition for the fight was assembled from the youth of “Yuzhan”, which “Proc” himself trained, also a victory. Then other cities: Krivoy Rog, Nova Kakhovka, etc. In 2017, he becomes the leader of the football team “Red Fox”. And in 2021, he already brings out his lineup against Mariupol, victory!
Since adolescence, the guys gathered together, everyone wanted to do something. Therefore, the idea arose to make our fan club under the leadership of Alexander, because it was felt in him. He knew what should be done for everyone, and he also knew where best to direct the youth in the rye at that time. He was always strong, brave, and purposeful!
In civilian life before the beginning of a full-scale war, Alexander took an active part in the public and political activities of the NGO “National Corps”. He also went to Poland, where he worked as a professional.
He met his future wife Lyudmila in 2018 through social networks. Communicating all this time, they got married in the spring of 2023, and in November their daughter Miroslav was born.
With the outbreak of a full-scale war, Alexander, together with friends from the Krystal movement, took up arms in the ranks of the 98th battalion of the Azov-Dnipro Troop, fought in the Zaporizhzhya and Donetsk regions, where he suffered the first contusion from the arrival of the 120th mine.
Subsequently, the unit “Protsa” became part of the 1st Mechanized Battalion of the 3rd OshBR, together with which it took part in the defense of Bakhmut, fierce battles in Klishchivka. The battle took place together with his teammates from the team “Red Fox” and friends from the fan movement “Kryvbas”.
After Klishchivka, “Proc” together with friends moved to the platoon of the PZRK. One of the first to leave for positions in anticipation of enemy helicopters. At the end of March 2023, he went to Bakhmut, where he received a bullet wound in the first hours of his stay in the city. Friends evacuated Alexander, and he spent the next 2 months in treatment.
After recovering from his injury, “Proc” continued to perform duties as a drone operator. Together with a teammate Yevgeny Filov, they were at the Avdievsky Coking Chemical Plant, later in Lastochkino and Orlivka.
In 2023, he was awarded the insignia of the Armed Forces of Ukraine “Steel Cross” and “Cross of the Brave”.
Oleksandr Protsenko died on March 8, 2024 as a result of enemy shelling near the city. Avdiyivka (Donetsk region). Three other brothers died with him. He was buried in Odessa at the Western Cemetery.
Eternal glory to the Hero!
