Energy expert and sergeant Oleksii Khabatiuk is killed on front line
Oleksii Khabatiuk, a Ukrainian energy expert and sergeant in the Armed Forces of Ukraine, was killed on 4 May.
This was announced on Facebook by Andrii Kobolev, former chairman of the board of state-owned oil and gas company Naftogaz.
"I was first told yesterday that Oleksii Khabatiuk had been killed. I didn't want to believe it and I didn't tell anyone else... Today I began to receive confirmation from mutual acquaintances," Kobolev wrote.
Khabatiuk's daughter Yulia later wrote that, according to the latest information, Oleksii Khabatiuk was killed by a fragment from a mine during a mission in Bakhmut.
"The burial will take place in Kyiv. His body has not yet been recovered [from the front - ed.], so we will provide the details later, when we know ourselves," she wrote.
Khabatiuk announced on Monday, 1 May that he was returning to Donetsk Oblast and posted a photo.
Oleksii Khabatiuk worked in the field of renewable energy at the State Environmental Investment Agency and headed the Environmental (Green) Investments Fund. In 2016-2021, he worked in the energy efficiency department of Naftogaz.
He became a sergeant of the Armed Forces in May 2022.
Khabatiuk wrote columns and articles for Economichna Pravda, and EP journalists often asked him for comments.
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