Relatives and friends commemorate journalist-soldier Taras Davydiuk killed at the front

The 37-year-old head of Hoyin.info publication from the Rivne Region, Taras Davydiuk (call sign “Staryi”), was killed on November 3 on the outskirts of Robotyne, Zaporizhzhia Region, the publication reports.

Taras was a political scientist by education (a graduate of the Ostroh Academy) actively engaged in social activities. He worked in the Young Movement and the Youth Nationalist Congress and was the head of the Rivne regional organization Active Youth. However, he devoted most of his time and attention to Scout school, where he led a group and carried out organizational and administrative work. During the Revolution of Dignity, he participated in the so-called platoon hundreds of Maidan Self-Defense Forces.

He fought in the Russian-Ukrainian war in 2014-2019 and from February 2022. In the break between two periods of service, he founded the independent news site Hoyin.info and became its editor-in-chief.

On September 29, he got engaged to a Kyiv-born girl named Tetiana Lushchenko… And he went to the front again. Taras wrote on his page: “Today there are no and cannot be more important matters than the war.”

He was killed by an enemy drone when he was returning by car from a combat mission.

Taras‘ fiancée, Tetiana, writes on the social network that the best help in the days of grief will be prayer, daily work to eradicate evil from our land, continuing his various good deeds, taking revenge in battle, and speeding up victory.

As of November 5, 2023, since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of the russian federation in the territory of Ukraine, the occupiers have killed at least 74 media workers. According to the verified data of the National Union of Journalists of Ukraine (NUJU) and the International Federation of Journalists, among the dead were 16 media persons who were performing professional duties; nine media workers were civilian victims; 49 media representatives mobilized for the defense of Ukraine in the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU).

The NUJU is deeply saddened by the death of its colleague, Taras Davydiuk. We express our condolences to his relatives. Glory to heroes!