Sotnik Ivan Andreyevich was the commander of the 3rd division of the 1st platoon of the special purpose company of the 2nd battalion of special purpose, special purpose (reserve battalion) "Donbass" East operative Association of the National Guard of Ukraine, Junior Sergeant. .
He was born on August 18, 1987 in the village Grudki Kamin-Kashyrsky district, Volyn region. He graduated 9 years of secondary school, the military lyceum in 2009 - Yaroslav Mudriy National Law Academy of Ukraine (now - National University of Law Yaroslav Mudry, Kharkiv). .
He lived in Lutsk, Volyn region. By May 2014 he worked in the state executive service of the Volyn region, the department of state executive service of the Lutsk district administration of justice, the last post - Head of state executive service Rozhyshche District Department of Justice (city Rozhysche Volyn region). .
In May 2014 he joined the volunteer volunteer territorial defense battalion "Donbass". He trained in the training center of the National Guard of Ukraine in the village of Petrovka New Vyshgorod district of Kyiv region. .
Since 2014 he participated in the anti-terrorist operation in eastern Ukraine. He served as commander of the 3rd division of the 1st platoon of the special purpose company of the 2nd battalion of special purpose, special purpose (reserve battalion) "Donbass" East operative association Ukraine National Guard (military unit 3057). Callsign "security officers". He participated in the battles for the city Debaltseve, the village Shyrokyne Novoazovsky (now - Volnovask) Donetsk region. .
On May 2, 2015 in the performance of service and combat missions in the area of Company-reference item number 4017, which is undertaken on the southwestern outskirts of the village Shyrokyne, resulting shot with a sniper rifle separatists Junior Sergeant Sotnik received gunshot wounds penetrating gunshot blind fronto-parietal region with a bang, crushing fronto-temporal and parietal region of the brain stem. He was taken to the emergency hospital in Mariupol, Donetsk region, where he died from injuries received during the second operation. .
On May 6, 2015 he was buried in the cemetery of his native village ball. .
He was awarded the Order "For courage" of III degree (10.6.2015, posthumously). .
He was single. The parents and the sister remain. .
Shortly before the death, Ivan Sotnik wrote on his page in Facebook post about the war, many media reprinted it as a testament to the fighter.