Mezue ahịrịokwu na-esonụ: N'abalị iri na itoolu n'ọnwa Ọgọstụ n'afọ 2014, Shrapnel merụrụ Semenchenko ahụ mgbe ndị agha ya gbara ya egbe mgbọ tupu ọ nwụọ.
na-abanye n'obodo Ilovaysk, 18 kilomita ọwụwa anyanwụ Donetsk. A wara ya ahụ́ na mberede ma jiri nwayọọ nwayọọ gbakee. E mechara nye ya Order nke Bohdan Khmelnytsky site n'aka Minista nke Ime Obodo Arsen Avakov. N'afọ 2014 a na-ese ya foto mgbe niile mgbe ọ na-eyi balaklava. N'iwepụ ya na 1 Septemba 2014, o kwuru, "Atụghị m ụjọ, m na-echegbu onwe m maka ezinụlọ m; ha dị nchebe ugbu a ma anaghị m atụ egwu".