MILITARY PERSONNEL

Vitalii Skakun

1996 - 2022

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Vitalii Volodymyrovych Skakun (Ukrainian: Віталій Володимирович Скакун; 19 August 1996 – 24 February 2022) was a Ukrainian marine combat engineer who was posthumously awarded the Order of the Gold Star. He sacrificed his life in the Russian invasion of Ukraine while blowing up a bridge in Henichesk while he was still on it to slow the advance of Russian troops during the Southern Ukraine campaign. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Vitalii Skakun is the 2,039th most popular military personnel (down from 2,037th in 2019), the 1,158th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 1,137th in 2019) and the 55th most popular Ukrainian Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Vitalii Skakun ranks 2,039 out of 2,058Before him are Polad Hashimov, Sybil Ludington, Bosco Ntaganda, Arsen Pavlov, Rojda Felat, and Tetiana Ostashchenko. After him are Ricardo Sanchez, CC Sabathia, Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, Max Lemke, Princess Salma bint Abdullah, and Harry B. Liversedge.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1996, Vitalii Skakun ranks 239Before him are Maxi Gómez, Kevin Diks, Almoez Ali, Valentino Lazaro, Joel Castro Pereira, and Răzvan Marin. After him are Pia Mia, Soufiane El Bakkali, Hwang In-beom, Nico Elvedi, Kentaro Wada, and Wilbur Soot. Among people deceased in 2022, Vitalii Skakun ranks 685Before him are Dean Woods, Lusia Harris, KK, Michael Möllenbeck, José Guirao, and Robbie Brightwell. After him are Sergey Dmitriyev, Pavlo Lee, Goran Sankovič, Andy Goram, Jody Lukoki, and Rehman Malik.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Vitalii Skakun ranks 1,158 out of 1,365Before him are NK (1987), Maruv (1992), Alexey Voyevoda (1980), Lesia Tsurenko (1989), Taras Mykhalyk (1983), and Vita Pavlysh (1969). After him are Vyacheslav Oliynyk (1966), Victor Khryapa (1982), Volodymyr Sydorenko (1976), Olga Slyusareva (1969), Vita Styopina (1976), and Vitalii Kim (1981).

Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Ukraine

Among military personnels born in Ukraine, Vitalii Skakun ranks 55Before him are Stepan Poltorak (1965), Yuliia Paievska (1968), Denis Berezovsky (1974), Vladimir Vysotsky (1954), Mikhail Tolstykh (1980), and Tetiana Ostashchenko (1974). After him are Valeriy Chybineyev (1988), Vladlen Tatarsky (1982), and Vladimir Zhoga (1993).