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Photo: Ministere des Armees
Dmitry Martynyuk died on May 1 at a military hospital in the city of Klamar.
Dmitry Martynyuk joined the First Legion Foreign Rifle Regiment in 2015.
Ukrainian French Foreign Legion Brigadier Dmitry Martynyuk died on May 1 at a military hospital in the city of Clamart, near Paris, from injuries during a military operation in Mali. Rfi.fr reported on Saturday, May 2.
It is noted that on April 23, the tanker truck of the French armed forces of Operation Barkhan was blown up in Mali in a makeshift mine. The driver and crew commander were injured. Both wounded were evacuated to France. The second army, according to the General Staff, is in a serious but stable condition.
Dmitry Martynyuk, born in 1991, a native of the city of Volochisk, Khmelnytsky region, joined the First Legion Foreign Motorized Rifle Regiment in 2015. In 2017, he participated in a military operation in Djibouti. In Mali, with the rank of foreman (corresponding to the corporal or junior sergeant), he was the crew commander of an armored car, as well as a trucker. According to the Ministry of Defense, Martyniuk was single and had no children.
French President Emmanuel Macron expressed his condolences to the family of the deceased.
“The President of the Republic bowed deeply to the victim of this legionary of the First Regiment of Foreign Motor Riflemen, wounded while carrying out his mission. He brings the most sincere condolences to his family and loved ones,” says the statement on the Champs Elysees. .
“He died for France during the execution of his military mission,” the French army headquarters said in a statement.
Dmitry Martynyuk became 42 servicemen, who have died since the start of the French military campaign in Mali in 2013. In recent weeks, the French army has intensified its attack on jihadists on the Mali-Niger border. The size of the Barkhan operations group increased from 4,500 to 5,100 military personnel.
Recall that in late November 2019 in Mali, 13 French soldiers died as a result of the collision of two military helicopters.
In Mali, it was also reported that 18 UN peacekeepers were hit by rocket fire at a military base in Tessalit.
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