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Kieren Williams

Hero Brit dad killed by landmine fighting in Ukraine was trying to rescue comrades

A heroic British dad-of-two has died fighting Russian forces in Ukraine after he tried to rescue his injured comrades on the frontline.

Viktor Yatsunyk, born in Ukraine, lived in rural Oxfordshire in the UK and made the decision in March to return to his motherland to fight Vladimir Putin ’s barbaric invasion.

The 44-year-old dad-of-two was killed in a landmine explosion when he and fellow soldiers tried to evacuate injured comrades on the frontline near the recently-liberated city of Izyum.

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