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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