Dmytro "Sarancha" Nizhnyk is a fan of the "Dynamo" football club (Kyiv), a representative of the "Happy Tree Friends" team.
Dmytro Romanovych Nyzhnyk was born on July 19, 1989 in the city of Kyiv. He studied at the capital school No. 122 named after M. Borovychenko, after which he entered the State University of Trade and Economics at the Faculty of Hotel and Restaurant Business. Relatives remember that Dmitry's childhood and youth were not easy, and he spent a lot of time with friends. Engaged in kickboxing.
From the age of 14, he began to visit the "Dynamo" fan club. In addition to actively supporting the team at home and away matches, Dmytro and his friends managed to attend many different subcultural events. Concerts, festivals and much more took place in those years in Kyiv. He was ready to defend the colors of the club outside the stadium, and in 2007 he joined the HTF team.
At the same time, Dmytro was a creative person, he wrote articles on the topic of the capital's subcultural youth. He had three books written, but none of them was published. Some time later, he became actively interested in music and became known among connoisseurs of the underground style as a rap artist under the nickname DS. He built his lyrics and rhymes around such concepts as friendship, honor and loyalty, which he himself valued from a young age. Simple and at the same time strong words found a response in the hearts of equally simple boys.
After studying at the university, he quickly developed his professional skills. Having started working as an assistant in one of the capital's companies in 2011, within a year he took a managerial position. Realized his talent as a chef, worked in several capital establishments. In 2016, he married his beloved Zhanna, and in the same year, the family had a son, Lev.
In the first days of the full-scale invasion, "Locust" joined the ranks of the district TRO, and later joined one of the units of the Special Operations Forces of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, where he served as a rifleman-assistant grenade launcher. Dmytro Nizhnyk died on April 30, 2022 while performing a combat mission near the settlement of Olhivske (Zaporizhsky region).