Ihor Tarasovych Dashko (Ukrainian: Ігор Тарасович Дашко; born 18 June 1977, Sambir, Ukrainian SSR – died 9 April 2022, Mariupol, Ukraine) was a Ukrainian military officer, a lieutenant colonel border guard of the State Border Service of Ukraine and a participant of the Russo-Ukrainian war.

He was awarded the Hero of Ukraine posthumously on April 17, 2022.[1]

Biography

Ihor Dashko was born on June 18, 1977, in Sambir, in the Ukrainian SSR.

He studied at the Secondary School No. 1 named after Taras Shevchenko, in Sambir, from which he graduated in 1994.

After graduating from the Academy of the State Border Service of Ukraine in 1999, he started working in the city of Mariupol, in the Department of the State Border Service of Ukraine.

From the summer of 2012 to January 2022, he served in the Western Regional Department of the State Security Service.

A month before the Russian invasion of Ukraine, he again moved to the city of Mariupol.

Death

On April 9, 2022, he blew himself up at a radio station in Mariupol so that it would not reach by the Russian invaders.

His last words on the radio were "Glory to Ukraine!".[2][3][4]

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Notes

  1. ^ Ukrainian defender blew himself and the radio station up in Mariupol rather than surrender it to the Russian occupiers. war.ukraine.ua, Retrieved 2023-12-27
  2. ^ ДПСУ: У Маріуполі прикордонник підірвав себе, щоб росіяни не отримали радіостанції Archived 2022-04-11 at the Wayback Machine // Громадське радіо. — 2022. — 11 квітня.
  3. ^ В Маріуполі український прикордонник підірвав себе, аби не здати позицію ворогові — Арестович Archived 2022-04-10 at the Wayback Machine // ТСН. — 2022. — 10 квітня
  4. ^ "Mariupol border guard sacrificed his life to prevent Russian troops from capturing radio station". Ukrayinska Pravda. Retrieved 2022-08-31.

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