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Valerii Dorokhov
Ukrainian entrepreneur and soldier (1991–2023) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Valerii Valeriiovych Dorokhov (Ukrainian: Валерій Валерійович Дорохов, 21 June 1991, Ternopil – 17 April 2023,[2] Donetsk Oblast) was a Ukrainian entrepreneur, serviceman, lieutenant[3] of the 68th Jaeger Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, a participant in the Russian-Ukrainian war, commander of Oleh Barna.[4]
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Biography
Valerii Dorokhov was born on 21 June 1991 in Ternopil.[4]
He graduated from the Law Faculty of the Ternopil National Economic University.[4]
He was the owner of the Tigerbox restaurant in Ternopil.[5]
With the beginning of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, he was appointed platoon commander of the security company of the Ternopil City TCC and JV.[6] Then he became the commander of a combat platoon of the 68th Jaeger Brigade. He died on 17 April 2023, together with Oleh Barna during an assault on the occupiers' positions in Donetsk Oblast.[7]
On 21 April 2023, the funeral services for Valerii Dorokhov and Oleh Barna were held at the Saint Michael's Golden-Domed Cathedral and on Maidan Nezalezhnosti in Kyiv. Hundreds of people came to pay their respects, including Petro and Maryna Poroshenko.[8]
He was buried on 22 April 2023 on the Alley of Heroes of the Mykulynetskyi Cemetery in Ternopil.[6]
The mother is deceased.[9]
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Awards
- Order of Bohdan Khmelnytskyi, 3rd class (24 August 2023, posthumously)[10]
- Honorary Citizen of Ternopil (April 28, 2023, posthumously)[11]
References
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