Among the deceased Ukrainian peacekeepers in Iraq was also a Volyn native, the commander of the 72nd separate mechanized battalion - Lieutenant Colonel Oleh Matizhev. Oleh Viktorovych was born and grew up in Kovel. There he finished school and entered the Khmelnytskyi Artillery School. Matizhev was called up to Iraq already from Bolhrad in Odesa Oblast. In the Volyn city of railway workers, the father, mother and sister of the deceased Ukrainian lieutenant colonel now live. Oleh Matizhev's wife is from Khmelnytskyi, where she still lives and works. They have two sons. The elder followed his father's path and is studying to be a military officer in Kharkiv, the younger is in the eighth grade. Kovel military commissar Colonel Valerii Vyhovskyi told a journalist of the newspaper "Simia i dim" that the news of Matizhev's death arrived in Kovel on Sunday evening. The parents were informed of their son's death. Today (on Tuesday) cargo 200 will be delivered by plane from Iraq to Germany, and from there to Khmelnytskyi, where the military officer will be buried. Such was the will of Lieutenant Colonel Matizhev's wife.