Firefighter Vasily Ignatenko of Prypyat was posthumously awarded the title Hero of Ukraine.
So was the first victim of the Chernobyl disaster, Valery Khodemchuk.
On 21 November 2025, a Russian drone attack on Kiev killed Khodemchuk's widow Natalia.
Alexei Ananenko, one of the three "divers" of Chernobyl, also a Hero of Ukraine, lived in the same appartment block.











