Prokhorenko Hero of Russia Biography
He died on March 17 of the year in the performance of military duty during the battles for Palmyra. The hero of the Russian Federation Prokhorenko, who was a week in the rear of the enemy, was surrounded by the militants of the Islamic State in the area of the village of Tadmore in Syria. The senior lieutenant joined the battle with the terrorists and, not wanting to surrender, called the aircraft man on himself.
Together with the heroically dead A. Prokhorenko, the militants of the “Islamic state” surrounded him and surrounded him. The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation officially announced the death of A. Prokhorenko on March 24. Prokhorenko was a gunner - being in the rear of the enemy, he coordinated aviation blows. For mobility and hiddenness, the fighters of such a specialty go on a mission with a minimum of combat equipment and spend a long time in anticipation and in radio monitoring mode so as not to detect themselves.
The gunners are constantly trying to calculate and destroy. By the time of his death, Alexander Prokhorenko spent a whole week in the rear of the enemy, coordinating aviation blows on the positions of militants.
And all this time, terrorists have hunted him. When he was surrounded, the special forces entered the battle with the enemy, and then, in order not to be captured, he caused fire on himself. Western journalists also admired the courage and heroism of the Russian soldier. The body of Alexander Prokhorenko was transferred to the Syrian Kurds to the IS Syrian Kurds during a special humanitarian operation, the same, in turn, at the end of April, it was handed over to representatives of the Russian authorities in Syria, which it was delivered to Russia, where a genetic identification procedure was carried out.
Prokhorenko was sent by a transport aircraft from the Military airfield of Chkalovsky to the military airfield of Orenburg, and from there - by helicopter to the village of Gorodoki. The body was accompanied by the father, mother and brother of Alexander Prokhorenko. In April of the year, the French family of Mage from the city of Montpellier transferred the order of the Legion and the military cross with a palm branch through the Russian Embassy in Paris in Paris, belonging to their relatives - participants in the Second World War.
At the invitation of Russian President Vladimir Putin, the spouses Mage came to Russia, where on May 5, in the building of the National Center for Defense Management, they personally transferred family relics to the father, mother and brother of Alexander Prokhorenko. The officer’s parents also awarded the memorable medal of the French city of Flamesan “parents of the soldier of the armed forces who died a hero”.
Prokhorenko was buried with military honors in the cemetery of the village of Gorodoki. He could play the frisky games, especially football. By the way, in infancy, his dad was rocking him to the noise of some championship, which was broadcast on television. And so ... an ordinary boy, playful, small, smart, with huge black eyes. " Mom Alexander. We will remember young eyes and three stars of Starley on the uniform.
He said everything to his whole feat, a boy from the Tulgan region. MAU "Information and Organization Center", tel.