A commemorative plaque was opened at a school in Vinnytsia in honor of the dead border guard

A memorial plaque in memory of the fallen border guard, Senior Sergeant Yuri Soroka, was unveiled on the building of the local secondary school in the village of Ivan'ky, Lypovetska territorial community.

This information was reported by the Mohyliv-Podilskyi Border Guard Unit. "We have unveiled a Memorial Plaque to the Hero so that we never forget, thanks to whom we can wake up in our beds, go to school, raise children, and continue to live. Yuri gave us the most valuable thing a person has - his own life. We should never forget this," said Viktor Bychkov, the head of the Lypovetska territorial community.

Yuri Soroka joined the ranks of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine in 2013. He participated in his first battle in 2014 in Donetsk while still a cadet at the Main Training Center of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine.

After returning from eastern Ukraine, he continued his service in the Mohyliv-Podilskyi Border Guard Unit. He left the service in 2017 and worked as a manager in Vinnytsia. However, from the first day of the full-scale invasion, he once again took up the defense of his homeland, first in Chernihiv Oblast and later in Donetsk Oblast.

On August 16, 2022, near the town of Marinka, while carrying out a combat mission, border guards came under targeted mortar fire. Yuri sustained severe injuries incompatible with life. He was posthumously awarded the Order of "For Courage" of the III degree.