Man killed after he left Ireland to fight in Ukraine was a 'real people person'

Oleksandr Zavhorodniy

An Aldi deputy manager in Sandyford, Co Dublin who was killed when he returned to his native Ukraine to fight in the war has been remembered by friends as a "people person" who was held in high esteem by all who knew him.

Oleksandr Zavhorodniy, was who known to his friends as Alex, had left Ireland for Ukraine on March 2. He died on March 30 in heavy fighting in Popasna.