Journalist Vitaliy Derekh died/Collage of Channel 24 region, as a result of an airstrike, journalist Vitaly Derekh was killed. He was 34 years old.
This was reported on the website of the Verkhovna Rada. The tragedy occurred on May 28.
What is known about the Hero
Vitaly, at the age of 16, became a member Orange Revolution, and then the Revolution of Dignity. He was one of the first to join the Aidar volunteer battalion and commanded the first squad of the first company. The man was awarded the State Order for Courage of the III degree and the Plast Bronze Cross for the heroic rank (life saving).
In 2016-2018, Vitaliy worked in the Municipal Guard of Ivano-Frankivsk. He was a lifeguard. In February, the man again went to defend Ukraine and led the calculation of anti-tank weapons and eliminated more than one piece of enemy equipment and Russian soldiers.
Memories of a friend
Vitaly's brother, political scientist and historian Andrei Kovalev said that the deceased was a well-known journalist in Ternopil, an artist, a plastun and a member of the “Order of the Iron Jail” hut.
Vitaly was a talented journalist, extremely creative, sometimes even outrageous, intellectual and always witty, he felt humor from God. A real adventurer in the best sense of the word. He was not afraid of danger and death,” Kovalev wrote.
Plast noted that Vitaly worked as a reporter for the newspaper 20 Minutes. The journalist went on an editorial expedition to South Africa in 2013.
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Another journalist who died in the war with Russia
Ukrainian defender Alexander Makhov was killed on May 4. He was a journalist and died in the Kharkiv region in the battles near Izyum. The man worked on the Dom, Ukraina and Ukraina 24 TV channels “. He also hosted the Voenkor podcast.
Makhov was the first Ukrainian journalist to visit the Vernadsky station in Antarctica. He also spent 2 weeks in Sanzhary with evacuees from Wuhan.
