Yevhen "Grappler" Slyusarenko is a fan of "Dynamo" football club (Kyiv) and a representative of the "North Company" team.
Yevhen Slyusarenko was born on December 25, 2001 in Kyiv. Since 2013, he studied at the Boarding Lyceum №23 "Cadet Corps" with enhanced military and physical training, where he mastered skills in handling weapons. In 2015, he entered Kyiv Natural Science Lyceum number 145. Since 2019, he had been a student of Borys Hrinchenko Kyiv University at the Faculty of Information Technology. Since 2017, he began his career and participated in the development of information projects for IT commercial structures. He actively supported the "Dynamo" and joined the around-football team "North Company". At the same time, he was engaged in contact martial arts and made significant achievements there. In 2018, Yevhen, mentored by coach Oleksandr Hryshko, became the Champion of Ukraine in Pankration. In 2019, he became a prize winner of the Ukrainian Grappling Championship.
When the full-scale Russian invasion began, "Grappler " as part of one of the voluntary battalions took part in the defense of Kyiv, and since March continued to defend Ukraine from the invaders in one of the hottest areas. On April 22, there were fierce battles with the enemy in the Vilkhivka village (Kharkiv region). The fighters of the "Luty" unit exposed the location of the enemy group related to the atrocities in Bucha. During the special operation, a significant number of enemies were destroyed. The remnants of the enemy group called tanks for help, which began mortar shelling. There was a command to withdraw. Yevhen delayed, he wanted to blow up the enemy tank, but the available weapons were not effective against this tank modification. He was almost the last to leave the battlefield, and those few seconds of delay were fatal. Leaving the place of the combat mission, the group came under a mortar attack, corrected by a drone from the air. Evading the shelling, the vehicle hit an anti-tank mine. He died from the mine explosion together with three comrades of the unit. Yevhen Sliusarenko was buried in the old cemetery in the city of Kaniv, on the slopes of the Dnipro. You would have had enough madness to kill ten bastards. A brave, a true patriot of his Motherland, who did not even hesitate to defend the country from the first day of the war. You were a combination of unbridled thirst for life, beauty, courage, strength, and intelligence. You burned like a flame, flew like the wind, you were in a hurry to live as every day counted for three. Your short live was brighter and had more events at 20 than other people would experience at 60. You could have achieved even greater sports victories, could have given birth to beautiful and intelligent children, and could have lived in prosperity for many more years, but instead, you chose death in glory and eternal life in our hearts.
That is how the commander of the unit described him.