Hordii "Bang" Kiktenko is a fan of the football club "Alexandria", and a representative of the team "Supporters Alexandria" (SA07).
Hordii Oleksiiovych Kiktenko was born on December 19, 1992. At the age of 4, he lost his mother and was being educated by his grandparents. In 2008 he finished Alexandria school №15, and three years later - vocational school №17, majoring in "machine tool operator of a wide profile". Besides supporting the local football club and participating in the life of the SA07 fan group, he was fond of hip-hop dancing and drawing.
After his studies, Hordii was called up for military service in the Armed Forces, where he soon continued to serve under contract. After his discharge in 2013, he returned to Alexandria. During the revolutionary events that began in December of the same year, he was in the ranks of the Alexandria Self-Defense, where he was on duty at the checkpoint. With the beginning of the russian invasion in Donbas, "Bang" signed a contract for service in the military reserve of the National Guard of Ukraine and went to the front as part of the "Donbas" Special Forces Battalion.
During the summer of 2014, "Bang" managed to take part in several operations for the liberation of Donbas settlements from occupants. Hordii Kiktenko was killed on August 29, 2014, in the infamous "Ilovaisk cauldron". The tragedy occurred in the village of Chervonosilske during a battle with Russian paratroopers, when Ukrainian warriors tried to escape from the encirclement. We all know today that this so-called "green corridor" turned out to be a cold-blooded murder of our warriors. Then Hordii, trying to break through with his group, raised to his full height, took an assault rifle in his hands, and opened fire on the invaders.
One of the youngest fighters of the "Donbas" battalion received incompatible life wounds in that battle. His body, and the bodies of 96 other Ukrainian soldiers who fell in Ilovaisk, were later brought and buried at the Verboloziv cemetery in Oleksandria. On February 26, 2015, "for personal courage and high professionalism displayed in the protection of state sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine", Hordii Kiktenko was awarded the Medal "For Courage", III degree (posthumously).