The brother of a slain Ukrainian soldier died in the military base attack.

Kyrylo Vyshyvanyi, a Ukrainian military instructor, was killed in the attack on a base near the Polish border in western Ukraine early on Sunday.

The father of two was 35 years old. His sister, Natalia Bodnar, confirmed his death.

He was recently interviewed by The New York Times in a video about his brother, Vasyl Vyshyvanyi, a Ukrainian paratrooper who was killed during fighting near Mykolaiv in southern Ukraine on March 3.

While driving to Vasyl’s memorial service in Lviv, Kyrolo reflected solemnly that “God takes away the best ones.”

A few days later, those words would resonate with the Vyshyvanyi family.