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🕯️A nationwide moment of silence
Andriy Kovtun began his professional career in 2012 as an intern at the prosecutor’s office of the Central District of Horlivka, Donetsk region; he later served as an investigator and prosecutor. From 2014 he worked in the Vinnytsia prosecutor’s offices — in the Vinnytsia Local and Vinnytsia Regional Prosecutor’s Offices. Since 2021 he was a prosecutor in the division overseeing compliance with the law during the investigation of crimes against life in the Department for Oversight of Law Compliance by the National Police of Ukraine and bodies combating organized and transnational crime of the Odesa Regional Prosecutor’s Office.
Andriy is remembered as a highly qualified specialist and a person with a big heart, devoted to his work. In 2017 his professionalism was recognized with a Letter of Appreciation from the Prosecutor General of Ukraine.
At the start of the full-scale invasion, Andriy took up the defense of his country and family. He defended the borders while serving as a squad commander in a Strike UAV Company.
In 2024 Andriy fought not only the occupiers but also a serious illness that, sadly, took his life.
The Office of the Prosecutor General honors the memory of Andriy Kovtun — prosecutor, defender of the Motherland.