During the nighttime terrorist attack in Lviv on February 22, 23-year-old police officer Viktoriya Shpylka was killed. Her professional path began in the Kherson region.
This was reported on the page of the Patrol Police of Lviv Oblast.
Viktoriya was born in Volyn, but later moved to Kherson with her parents. It was here that she began her service in the ranks of the patrol police after graduating from the Lviv State University of Internal Affairs.
In 2023 she was transferred to serve in Lviv Oblast.
“Colleagues remember her as responsive, bright, and sincere. She knew how to support, listen, and find a warm word even on the hardest day. She never complained; instead she smiled and went on duty because she knew people were waiting for her. Faithful to the Oath. Just. With a deep sense of duty. Last autumn she got married. Her husband is also a patrol officer. They served together, dreamed together, and built their future together,” – the post reads.
On the night of February 22, loud explosions rang out in the center of Lviv. The city’s mayor, Andriy Sadovyi, reported that the building in which the explosion occurred was not residential.
It later became known that as a result of the nighttime explosions a 23-year-old police officer was killed and 24 other people were injured.
The press service of the Lviv Oblast police reported that law enforcement officers classified the explosion as a terrorist act. It was preliminarily established that improvised explosive devices were detonated.