Breshyns‘kyy Volodymyr Olehovych was the gunner of the 1st division 1st platoon of the 1st company of the protection of the 13th battalion of territorial defense Chernihiv Oblast " Chernihiv-1", soldier.
He was born on 17 January, 1983 in Norilsk, Krasnoyarsk region (Russia). He lived in the village Mikhailo-Kotsyubinske, Chernihiv district, Chernihiv region. As a child he remained an orphan (parents died in a car accident), was educated by grandmother and grandfather. He graduated the high school in the village of Mikhailo-Kotsyubinske and state vocational school "Chernigiv higher vocational school."
He passed the military service in the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
On 28 April 2014 he was mobilized into the Armed Forces of Ukraine. He served as a machine gunner 1st division 1st platoon of the 1st company of the protection of the 13th battalion of territorial defense Chernihiv Oblast ‘Chernihiv 1 "(military unit field mail V2278, November 2014 - 13th separate mechanized infantry battalion of the 1st Tank brigade of the 8th army corps of the Armed Forces of Ukraine).
Since 2014 he participated in the anti-terrorist operation in eastern Ukraine.
On 18 August, 2014 soldier Breshyns‘kyy was seriously wounded during fighting in the Luhansk region. He was treated at the Kiev military hospital, where he died from his injuries on 27 August, 2014.
On 28 August, 2014 he was buried in the cemetery of village Michailo-Kotsyubinske, Chernihiv district, Chernihiv region.
He was awarded the Order "For courage" III class (15.5.2015, posthumously).
On 23 September, 2015 in the village of Mikhailo-Kotsyubinske there was opened the memorial for the countrymen, who died in the area of counter-terrorist operations, including the name Breshyns‘kyy Volodymyr. On 7 May, 2015 in the village of Mikhailo-Kotsyubinske on the facade of the building school (garden Sadoviy, 60), where the hero studied, the memorial plaque was established. Name Breshyns‘kyy Volodymyr is used to name the Park of Culture and the village street Michailo-Kotsyubinske.
The grandmother and the son are left.