Vasyl Bohach

Vasyl Volodymyrovych Bohach (Ukrainian: Василь Володимирович Богач; call sign – Domakha; literary pseudonym – Ivan Bohdan; August 16, 1979, Volnovakha, Donetsk region – May 8, 2022, Mariupol, Donetsk region) was a Ukrainian military personnel, Lieutenant Colonel of the Security Service of Ukraine, a participant in the Russian-Ukrainian war. Hero of Ukraine (2023, posthumously).

Biography
Vasyl Bohach was born on August 16, 1979, in Volnovakha, Donetsk Oblast.

He graduated from Vasyl' Stus Donetsk National University. He served in the Security Service of Ukraine.

Since 2014 he has been at the front.

In 2015, he was subjected to political repression and spent three weeks in the Bakhmut detention center on a trumped-up case.

After the start of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, he joined the Azov Brigade. On April 4, 2022, he was seriously injured and hospitalized at Azovstal. He died on May 8, 2022, at the plant as a result of an anti-bunker bomb hitting one of the bunkers.

He was buried at the Lukianivske Cemetery in Kyiv.

Books
He wrote three books under the pseudonym Ivan Bohdan:


 * "Mariupol 2014 ("Маріуполь 2014") (2016)
 * "Patriot Prisoners ("Патріотв'язні") (2018)
 * "The Other Side of the Trenches ("По той бік окопів") (2020)

Awards
Hero of Ukraine with the Order of the Golden Star (June 12, 2023, posthumously) – for personal courage and heroism in the defense of state sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine, selfless service to the Ukrainian people.