Vasyl Volodymyrovych Doroshenko «Paladin»

• Military rank: Senior Soldier
• Unit: 3rd Assault Brigade
• State honors: Order «For Courage», III class; on October 1, 2023, he was awarded the honorary breast badge «Golden Cross» of Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valerii Zaluzhnyi;

Biography

He was born on April 21, 1995, in the village of Tiaziv near the city of Ivano-Frankivsk. He graduated from school in his native village of Tiaziv. He studied «Finance and Credit» at the Ivano-Frankivsk State College of Technology and Business, which he completed in 2013. In 2014, he was an activist of Euromaidan.

He joined Plast on September 29, 2014. From 2015 to 2017, he was a novatstvo educator of the «Dynozavryky» patrol of nest No. 49 «Praid» in the Ivano-Frankivsk stanytsia. In 2015, he was an educator and instructor of the patrol skill «Actor» and the artistic area «Origami» at the novatstvo camp of the Ivano-Frankivsk stanytsia - «Country of Sun Bunnies», which took place in the village of Vistova, Kalush district. In 2016, he came to the novatstvo nest camp «Praim», held on a farm in the village of Unizh, Horodenka district, as a bratchyk immediately after an archaeological expedition from the National Historical and Archaeological Reserve «Olbia» in Mykolaiv region. From August 4 to 10, 2017, he was commandant of the patrol camp «Little Savages». He transferred his novatstvo patrol to yunatstvo in the 49th Ivan Mykolaichuk kurin on December 19, 2017; he came specially from Poland for this transfer in order to make it to the meeting, which became a great surprise for everyone. In 2020, due to a change of residence, he transferred to the Lviv stanytsia, where he helped the team of educators of the 109th Yaroslav Horoshko kurin.

Later, he studied in the history program at the Faculty of Humanities of the Ukrainian Catholic University in 2015—2017.

He was fond of hitchhiking and books, also volunteered, wrote prose and poetry, and dreamed of publishing his own book

He worked at the «Ye» bookstore. From the autumn of 2021, he studied law part-time at Lviv Polytechnic National University and studied at the University of Silesia in Katowice.

From March 2020 to August 2021, he was part of the team of the «Zelena Korobka» NGO, where he was responsible for logistics and sales. He put a great deal of work into the Community Sorting Station. At the same time, he also volunteered at the «Tarilka» NGO. From 2021, he worked at the «Terra Recycling» enterprise, which dealt with waste sorting.

From May 22, 2022, to February 2023, he served in the 45th Separate Artillery Brigade. From February 2023, he transferred to the 3rd Assault Brigade.

The call sign «Paladin» comes from the name of the «Order of Paladins», which united historical reenactors from Lviv who studied the Ukrainian Middle Ages.

He took part in battles near Bakhmut, where he was wounded in May 2023. After rehabilitation, he returned to service.

He was killed on August 13, 2023, near the village of Klishchiivka in the Bakhmut direction.