After months of agonizing uncertainty and waiting, the death of a resident of the village of Kam’yanitsa was confirmed. Fellow villagers, kneeling and holding national flags, gathered to bid the soldier a final farewell.
The Onokivska territorial community bowed their heads in deep mourning. On November 11, local residents paid their final respects to their fellow villager—Soldier Viktor Anatoliyovych Rilets, who gave his life in the battles for Ukraine’s freedom, sovereignty, and independence.
The Onokivka Village Council announced the details of the defender’s burial.
An End to the Agonizing Uncertainty
Viktor Anatoliyovych Rilets lived in the village of Kam’yanitsa in the Uzhhorod District. He joined the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to defend his homeland from the Russian aggressor:
- For a long time, his family, friends, and comrades hoped for a miracle and lived in agonizing anticipation of news about his fate;
- after the necessary identification procedures were completed, official confirmation was received that the soldier had been killed while carrying out a combat mission on the front lines.
A Living Corridor of Remembrance and a Funeral with Military Honors
Relatives, military personnel, comrades-in-arms, representatives of local government, and hundreds of concerned residents of the village of Kamianitsa and surrounding communities gathered to pay their final respects to the fallen soldier.
Along the streets of his native village, people formed a living corridor of honor: kneeling and holding blue-and-yellow flags and flowers, his fellow villagers, with tears in their eyes, saw off the mournful procession carrying the Hero’s body.
Soldier Viktor Rilets was buried with full military honors at the cemetery in the village of Kam’yanitsa to the strains of the Ukrainian National Anthem and a three-round gun salute.
The editorial staff of “Zakarpats’kyi Visnyk” and the residents of all of Zakarpattia express their deepest condolences to the family, loved ones, friends, and comrades-in-arms of Viktor Anatoliyovych Rilets. We share in this unspeakable grief and bow our heads in respect for the heroic deeds of the fallen soldier.
Eternal memory, honor, and glory to the Hero of Ukraine!
Source: Onokivka Village Council.
Photo: Onokivka Village Council.
