Valerii Dorokhov

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]

• Order of Bohdan Khmelnytskyi, 3rd class (24 August 2023, posthumously)^[10]
• Honorary Citizen of Ternopil (April 28, 2023, posthumously)^[11]