After graduating from the academy, he was assigned to the position of an advanced aviation gunner in the group of the Special Operations Forces of the Russian Federation.

[5] Since January 2016, he took part in the Russian military operation in Syria as a forward observer tasked to carry out the targeting of airstrikes at ISIS militant positions.

[6] He was posthumously awarded the title Hero of the Russian Federation for reportedly calling in an airstrike on his own position, after being surrounded by ISIS militants.

[10] Two retired French citizens, Micheline Mague and Daniel Couture, paid tribute to Prokhorenko by donating World War II era military medals to his family.

Micheline Mague and her husband Jean-Claude traveled to Russia and presented the medals to his parents, Alexander and Natalia Prokhorenko, and his brother, Ivan, in a meeting at the Russian Defense Ministry.

Couture stated in a letter that he felt that Prokhorenko died defending not only Russia and France, but all other countries who are menaced by terrorism.