Vladimir Artyomovich Zhoga (Russian: Владимир Артёмович Жога, Ukrainian: Володимир Артемович Жога, romanized: Volodymyr Artemovych Zhoha; 26 May 1993 – 5 March 2022), also known by his nom de guerre Vokha (Russian: Воха), was a separatist who commanded the Sparta Battalion, a pro-Russian separatist force that is involved in the Russo-Ukrainian War. He was also the son of the Russian political military commander, Artem Zhoga. On 5 March 2022, he was killed in action during battle of Volnovakha in the eastern Ukraine during the invasion of Ukraine.
Vladimir Artyomovich Zhoga (Russian: Владимир Артёмович Жога, Ukrainian: Володимир Артемович Жога, romanized: Volodymyr Artemovych Zhoha; 26 May 1993 – 5 March 2022), also known by his nom de guerre Vokha (Russian: Воха), was a separatist who commanded the Sparta Battalion, a pro-Russian separatist force that is involved in the Russo-Ukrainian War. He was also the son of the Russian political military commander, Artem Zhoga.
On 5 March 2022, he was killed in action during battle of Volnovakha in the eastern Ukraine during the invasion of Ukraine.
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Biography Vladimir Zhoga was born in Donetsk in on 26 May 1993. Soon after his birth, the Zhoga family moved to Sloviansk where he grew up. His parents separated early in his life. At the age of fourteen, he started helping out his father, who at the time owned a small business. Until 2014, Zhoga had no interest in enlisting in the military, and instead tried to study at a technical school after he failed obtain a access to a university. He graduated from the Slavic Vocational Art Lyceum as a painter-plasterer. Zhoga described himself as apolitical until the Revolution of Dignity in 2014; he came to see the events as a "coup" and threat to his home. Within his circle of acquaintances, no one supported the Euromaidan, hardening his views. He still lived in Sloviansk by the Russo-Ukrainian War's outbreak. In 2014, Zhoga and his father Artem joined the Sparta Battalion, one of several pro-Russian separatist militias which emerged during the war in Donbas. The Sparta Battalion is regarded as one of the most effective separatist militias, and is ideologically aligned with Russian ultranationalism and irredentism. Both the unit and Zhoga himself have been described as being associated with…
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Works cited
Galeotti, Mark (2019). Armies of Russia's War in Ukraine. Oxford: Osprey Publishing. ISBN 9781472833440.
