He studied at an academic gymnasium and a physics and mathematics lyceum in Lviv. He graduated from the Faculty of Historical Sciences of the Ukrainian Catholic University.[5]
From the age of seven, he was a member and teacher of the Ukrainian scouting organization Plast. He grew up in Bohdan Khmelnytsky's kuren number 69. He was a kurennyk, educator, member of the 15th kuren of the Order of the Iron Ostroh.[6]
Participant of the Revolution of Dignity.[1] At the beginning of the Russian-Ukrainian war, he volunteered for a separate special forces unit "Azov", with which he participated in battles near Shyrokyne. Later, he was transferred to the Harpoon Special Forces Battalion.[1] After demobilization, he was actively engaged in self-development and traveling.[4]
With the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, on 1 March 2022, he returned from Brazil, where he had parachuted from a statue of Christ the Redeemer. Artemii replaced his American Harley-Davidson motorcycle with an assault rifle, bought a bulletproof vest and helmet in the United States, and flew to Poland to reach Ukraine by bus. When the stewardess asked him why he was wearing a bulletproof vest, he replied: "I'm from Ukraine, it makes me feel safer." After arriving, he went to defend the capital, but ended up in Berdychiv at the 142nd SSO training center. He served alongside the traveler Viktor-Mykola Havryliuk, his friend Dmytro Pashchuk (died on 12 March 2023), and MP Roman Lozynskyi. They jokingly called their four in the war the "Hawaiian TRO". They fought in the Kherson sector.[6][7][8]
He died on 18 June 2022, as a result of mortar shelling during a combat mission in the village of Bila Krynytsia, Mykolaiv Oblast.[9][1]
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