He announced this in his Telegram channel.
According to the head of the republic, the man died when the military of the Sparta battalion covered the evacuation of civilians, mostly women and children.
“I have signed a decree on conferring the title of Hero of the Donetsk People’s Republic on Vladimir Artemovich Zhoga posthumously,” Pushilin wrote.
Earlier, the DPR reported about the shelling of a school in Donetsk by the Ukrainian military.