Yaroslav V. Matviiv (Tyhr)

27-year-old Yaroslav Matviiv (call sign Tiger) was killed on August 26, 2022, in a confrontation with an enemy sabotage and reconnaissance group. Yaroslav Matviiv was a military officer of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, a graduate of the OUM "Heritage". He served in the 49th separate rifle battalion "Carpathian Sich" and the 93rd separate mechanized brigade "Cold Yar". An active participant in the Revolution of Dignity, he first went to the Russian-Ukrainian war at the age of 19. Later, he became a peacekeeper in the Congo. He was one of the best graduates of the National Academy of Land Forces named after Peter Sagaidachny. At the age of 27, he was already the assistant head of the regiment's intelligence. On February 24, 2022, Tiger was under Kyiv. From March, he fought as part of the 5th separate assault regiment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. "We were together since 2006. And over the years, you learned yourself and taught our youth, raised heirs, invested in them all your skills and knowledge, in which you were the best. And you very harshly taught those children, and they still loved you (honestly, we still don't know how you did it). You always knew how to be different from everyone. And these are not just words," the organization wrote. Friends and acquaintances of Yaroslav say that he was an authority, fiercely destroying enemies, a warrior from childhood. For everyone who knew him, the world turned upside down. "A world without Tiger. Sitting somewhere over there, on the other side, in the Cherry Valley, with Mysla and the rest of our heroes killed by the Russians, such brothers with a Lion's Heart, all young, full of strength. I have no words to describe the grief and anger. You were my model of a Ukrainian military man. And first and foremost, a friend," recalls comrade Yulian Gonchar. Yaroslav left behind a wife.