Oleksii Chubashev was born on 16 November 1991 in
Polohy in
Zaporizhzhia Oblast. In 2010, he graduated from the
Ivan Bohun Military High School in Kyiv, and in 2015 from the Military Institute of
Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (specializing in journalism). In 2015, he was deployed to the ATO for the first time, and in the same year he began his service as a military journalist at the Central TV and Radio Studio of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine. With the beginning of the large-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, he performed combat missions as part of a special forces group of the 8th separate Special Forces regiment in the Kyiv region. In April of the same year, he was called up for mobilization, sent to the Defence Intelligence of Ukraine and took up the position of commander of the group of the International Legion of the
Main Directorate of Intelligence of the
Ministry of Defense of Ukraine. He died on 10 June 2022 during the defense of the city of Sievierodonetsk. He was buried at the
Baikove Cemetery in Kyiv and is survived by his wife, daughter and son. ==Honoring the memory==