Oleksandr Makhov

Oleksandr Volodymyrovych Makhov (, 17 April 1986 – 4 May 2022) was a Ukrainian serviceman, sergeant of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, military journalist, participant of the Russian-Ukrainian war.

Biography Oleksandr Makhov was born on 17 April 1986 in Voroshylovhrad (now Luhansk).

He graduated from the East Ukrainian Volodymyr Dahl National University with a degree in journalism. He worked for Luhansk Regional Television, the city's IRTA channel, He covered events from the war zone and hosted the podcast "Viiskkor". In 2017, he had a business trip to Antarctica.

In 2015, he was voluntarily mobilized,

From 20 February to 5 March 2020, he was the only representative of the Ukrainian media in the observation center in Novi Sanzhary, Poltava Oblast, together with the evacuees from Wuhan, China.

He was buried on 9 May 2022 at the Berkovets Cemetery.

He is survived by his son Vladyslav and his fiancée Anastasiia Blyshchyk, herself a journalist, and a soldier of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

A light rail station in Kyiv was also named after him.

On 26 December 2022, in Izium, Kharkiv Oblast, Oleksandr Ostrovskyi Street was renamed to Oleksandr Makhov Street.

On 27 October 2022, Oleksandr Makhov Street appeared in Kyiv.

Awards Order for Courage, III class (24 May 2022, posthumously)