Vasyl Kozak

Vasyl Mykhailovych Kozak (Василь Михайлович Козак) was born in 1993 in Lviv in western Ukraine. Awarded Hero of Ukraine.



Life
He graduated from Lviv gymnasium "Prestige".

He is a member of UNION sports karate club. Under the guidance of the honored trainer of Ukraine Anton Nikulin he became the champion of Ukraine, the laureate of the European Cup and a number of other karate competitions.

He received his higher education at the Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University, graduating in 2015.

In 2017, he became a postgraduate student at the university's Department of Criminal Law, and in June 2021 he defended his dissertation for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy on "Criminal liability for illegal trafficking of vehicles".

Service activity
He worked in the SSU office in Uzhhorod. For a long time, he was the head of the Department for Combating Corruption and Organized Crime.

Record quantities of heroin smuggled into the EU were detained during Kozak's service in the Zakarpattia region.

Many criminals were convicted in various cases and sentenced to prison terms. They are still serving their sentences.

Kozak actively fought against the representatives of the underworld, the so-called lawbreakers and their groups. In particular, he was involved in the arrest and prosecution of a Russian criminal organization in the Zakarpattia region.

Since 2022, after the massive Russian invasion, he participated in many successful operations in Russian-occupied Ukrainian territories.

Awards

 * Hero of Ukraine with the awarding of the "Golden Star" order — ″for personal courage and heroism, demonstrated in the defense of state sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine″. The award attributes of the title were presented to Vasyl Kozak by the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyi, on February 24, 2023, in Kyiv on Sofia Square.
 * Firearms.