Vasyl B. Zadorozhnyi (Kavkaz)

Born on October 11, 1965, in the city of Lviv. In the winter of 2013-2014, he was at Maidan Nezalezhnosti in Kyiv, where he was an active participant in the Revolution of Dignity. He served in the 1st Separate Medical Company named after Pirogov of the Northern Territorial Kyiv Command of the National Guard of Ukraine (military unit 3001, city of Kyiv). Since January 2015, he participated in the anti-terrorist operation in eastern Ukraine. Pseudonym "Caucasus." On February 9, 2015, a medical brigade of the National Guard of Ukraine, consisting of a medical armored vehicle and a medical car, left the city of Artemivsk (now Bakhmut) in the Donetsk region towards the city of Debaltseve in the Donetsk region, to meet with a medical crew of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (Anatoliy Sulima, Mykhailo Balyuk, and paramedic of the National Guard of Ukraine Serhiy Katsabin), with whom communication was lost. Around 6:30 PM near the village of Lohvynove in the Artemivsk (now Bakhmut) district of the Donetsk region, the medical vehicle, in which Dmytro Lahunov and Vasyl Zadorozhny were present, hit a mine, after which the medical brigade came under fire from a reconnaissance and sabotage group of Russian-terrorist formations. During the battle, Dmytro Lahunov, Taras Konchevych, Maksym Ovcharuk, and Vasyl Zadorozhny, who sustained injuries to both legs and chest injuries incompatible with life, were killed. On February 25, 2015, he was buried in the field of Honorary Burials No. 76 at Lychakiv Cemetery in the city of Lviv.