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This is a list of people killed during the February 2014 Revolution of Dignity in Ukraine, part of the wider Euromaidan movement, and the early phase of the Russo-Ukrainian War. The list includes 130 identified individuals from both sides of the conflict who died during the events, including 18 police officers who were killed by the protesters. [1] The majority of those killed were civilians who supported the revolution.
Ukrainian sources often refer to the killed protesters as the Heavenly Hundred (Ukrainian : Небесна сотня, Nebesna sotnya ; (it may also be translated as "Heavenly Company"), Russian: Небесная сотня, Nebesnaya sotnya). On 21 February 2014, Verkhovna Rada recognized the perished protesters of Euromaidan as victims. [2] On 21 November 2014 by Petro Poroshenko's decree the perished Ukrainian protesters of Euromaidan were posthumously awarded the Hero of Ukraine title. [3] Three non-Ukrainian citizens killed in the Euromaidan events were each posthumously awarded the title Knight of the Order of the Heaven's Hundred Heroes . [4] Since 2015 "the Day of the Heavenly Hundred Heroes" is celebrated on 20 February to commemorate the deaths. [5] [6]
The first deaths occurred on Unity Day, 22 January 2014, during riots on Hrushevskoho Street in Kyiv, where three Euromaidan activists were shot dead. On the same day, the dead body of another Euromaidan activist Yuriy Verbytsky was found on the outskirts of the city; he had been kidnapped a day before with Ihor Lutsenko, who was released. These were the first victims to die in demonstrations in Ukraine since it gained national independence in 1991. The deaths caused widespread protests across the country. On 23 January 2014, then Prime Minister Mykola Azarov in an interview with BBC said that police had not been issued firearms, and said no police officers were located on the rooftops around the protest area. He stated that the shooting of protesters was a provocation by extremist forces aimed at escalating violence. [7] Party of Regions MP Arsen Klinchayev stated during a memorial service in Luhansk for those killed on 22 January by police, "These people were against the government. Nobody has the right to use physical force against police officers. And then they have their sticks, then stones, then something else. The police have the right to defend their lives. So I think it's right that these four people were killed. Moreover, I believe that you need to be stricter." [8]
Five more deaths in connection with Euromaidan occurred between 25 January and 13 February.
The second active phase started February 18. After a brief truce on 19 February, the clashes renewed 20 February. According to the newspaper Ukrainska Pravda, special forces (Berkut) and Interior Troops snipers [9] shot at people on Maidan and/or snipers located in nearby buildings, with the special forces firing with AK-47 assault rifles. [10] 20 February was the bloodiest day of the clashes, with at least 21 anti-government protesters killed. [11] The final death toll from these clashes in late February was 103 protesters and 13 police. [12] [13] [14] According to the Deputy Prosecutor General of Ukraine Oleh Zalisko in February 2014, 67 people were killed in Kyiv's city centre, 184 sustained gunshot wounds and over 750 suffered bodily injuries (as stated on 9 December 2014). [15] On 20 February 2014, the (then) opposition parties (Batkivshchyna, UDAR and Svoboda) released a statement that stated "To hold talks with the regime, the policies of which led to the deaths of many people, is an extremely unpleasant thing but we must do everything possible and even the impossible to prevent further bloodshed". [16]
At least 17 people died from previously received wounds and injuries since then.
On 21 February 2014, Maidan participants wished last farewell to the perished protesters who they named the Heavenly Hundred. [17] During the event, a mourning Lemko song "A duck floats on the Tysa..." was heard (Ukrainian : «Плине кача по Тисині…»).
On 24 February 2014, the Verkhovna Rada (Ukraine's parliament) decided to propose that the next Ukrainian president award the title Hero of Ukraine to protesters killed in the clashes with the riot police. [18]
On 30 March 2014, The Daily Beast published photos which it stated were of members of the Alfa Group of the Ukrainian security services (SBU) taken on 20 February 2014, and said that these troops may have been trained by members of the Russian special forces. [19]
Nationality | Name | Details | Date of death | Cause of death/Reference |
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Yuriy Verbytskyi uk | A scientist (seismologist) from the Geophysical Institute in Lviv. [20] Yury was a member of Lviv's climber society. After his death, the society proposed to name one of the Caucasian mountains after Verbytskyi—the idea was supported by the Georgian climber society which is currently looking for an unnamed mountain hill. [21] | 21 or 22 January 2014 | Verbytskyi was kidnapped from the Oleksandivsky Hospital together with Ihor Lutsenko on 21 January 2014. [22] His body was found on 22 January close to village Gnidyn of Boryspil Raion, with signs of torture. [23] However, the official cause of death was said to be hypothermia. [24] | |
Pavlo Mazurenko uk | Participated in Euromaidan [25] | 21 December 2013 | According to his wife, as reported by the Ukrayinska Pravda, Pavlo Mazurenko (41 years old) was beaten up on 18 December 2013 by three law enforcement agents in the neighborhood of Borshchahivka (Mykilska). [26] According to police, he died as a result of a fight with employees of a private security company that were guarding the Colibris store in Kyiv. Police also claimed that Pavlo's wife stated he was not involved in Euromaidan protests. [27] Ukrainian UNIAN News Agency interviewed Pavlo's wife days after, and she commented her husband was beaten by "three men in black uniform and batons [...] more resembling interior ministry servicemen, or a private security company staff". She also claimed that the three ran away after beating Pavlo. [28] On 21 December, he visited a doctor who sent him to a hospital where Mazurenko was diagnosed with a concussion. [26] The same day he was hospitalized doctors found fractures to his skull. [26] On 22 December, Mazurenko died and his body was sent for forensic examination, after which he was diagnosed with two-way contagious bovine pleuropneumonia (lung plaque seen in bovine animals). [26] | |
Serhiy Nigoyan | Born in the village of Bereznuvativka in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast. [29] The Nigoyan family moved from Armenia to Ukraine as refugees of the first Nagorno-Karabakh War. [30] Nigoyan came to Euromaidan on 8 December and was mostly involved in security. [29] | 22 January 2014 | Died on 22 January 2014 during clashes with the police on Hrushevskyi street. He suffered multiple gunshot wounds during a Berkut attack on the Hrushevskoho Street barricades. [29] [31] [32] On November 18, 2015 according to the head of the Special Investigations Unit of the Main Investigation Department of the Prosecutor General Sergei Gorbatyuk, Serhiy Nigoyan and Mikhail Zhiznevsky were killed at a distance of not less than three meters, while the law enforcement agencies of the protesters were at a distance of about 30 meters. | |
Mykhailo Zhyznevskyi | Zhyznevskyi left Belarus for political reasons. In Ukraine, he lived and worked in Kyiv and later Bila Tserkva. [33] Was a member of the Ukrainian nationalist group, the UNSO. At Euromaidan, Zhyznevskyi was involved in security. [33] | 22 January 2014 | Died on 22 January 2014 during Berkut's action on barricades on Hrushevsky street where he was shot in the chest by a sniper. [31] [32] His funeral was attended by Euromaidan and opposition leaders; he was buried with the Ukrainian UNA-UNSO and Belarusian flags. [34] | |
Roman Senyk | Senyk was born in Lviv Oblast and in the last few years lived in Turka. | 25 January 2014 | During a Berkut action on barricades on Hrushevskoho Street, a grenade tore his hand and made multiple wounds in his lower chest and lungs. [35] Hit with a metal bullet in the lung, he underwent several operations and had to have his arm amputated. [36] Having lost more than 3.5 litres of blood, he died in one of Kyiv's hospitals after multiple surgeries. [37] | |
Bohdan Kalyniak | 52 years old from Kolomyia, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast | 28 January 2014 | Died at a hospital in Ivano-Frankivsk on 28 January. Kolomyia Mayor Igor Sluzar said the man had come down with pneumonia during the clashes on Hrushevskoho Street in Kyiv where police used water cannons on protesters despite sub-zero temperatures. [36] | |
Serhiy Synenko | AutoMaidan activist. Zaporizhia. | 13 February 2014 | In Zaporizhia, the gas tank of his car was shot at, causing it to explode and the car to engulf him in flames. Police stated the murder may have been motivated by his participation in Automaidan. [38] | |
Serhiy Bondarev | Software engineer from GlobalLogic, Kyiv. Originally from Kramatorsk, Donetsky region | 18 February 2014 | 4 Gunshot wounds [39] | |
Valeriy Brezdenyuk | Ukrainian painter, known for "paintings on the water". From Zhmerynka, Vinnytska Oblast., [40] [41] 50 year old. | 18 February 2014 | Killed during clashes by a gunshot wound to the back. [42] | |
Serhiy Didych | Svoboda member. 44 years old. | 18 February 2014 | Died during the traffic incident while another protester was trying to break the police line on the truck. [43] | |
Antonina Dvoryanets | From Brovary. Kyiv Oblast. 61 years old. [44] | 18 February 2014 | Participated in a picketing action. Beaten to death with clubs during clashes on Instytutska Street. [45] [46] | |
Oleksandr Kapinos | From Ternopil Oblast, Svoboda member, 29 years old. | 18 February 2014 | Killed during clashes. [42] According to his friend, Oleksandr was hit by a grenade, then shot in the head with a rubber bullet at close range. Died in the hospital. | |
Zurab Khurtsia | Georgian, 53 years old. | 18 February 2014 | Died from a heart attack on Maidan [45] [47] | |
Volodymyr Kishchuk | From Zaporizhia Oblast. 58 years old. | 18 February 2014 | Shot during clashes with the riot police and Berkut on Hrushevskoho street. [48] [49] | |
Andriy Korchak | Boryslav. Lviv Oblast 50 years old. | 18 February 2014 | Beaten by "Berkut" and died from a head injury in the hospital. [42] [50] | |
Volodymyr Kulchytskyi | From Kyiv. 65 years old. | 18 February 2014 | Killed by two bullets during clashes. [42] | |
Volodymyr Naumov | Member of Euromaidan self-defense units, from Donetsk Oblast. | 18 February 2014 | Body found on Trukhaniv Island near the Dnipro River. Police accused Naumov of suicide. [45] [51] | |
Oleksandr Plekhanov | 22 year-old college student from Kyiv. | 18 February 2014 | Killed during clashes [52] | |
Ihor Serdyuk | From Kremenchuk. 40 years old. | 18 February 2014 | Executed by "titushkas" thugs and "Berkut" next to Mariinskyi Park. He was building a barricade at the time. [39] | |
Serhiy Shapoval | From Kyiv. 45 years old. | 18 February 2014 | Shot during clashes with the riot police and Berkut on Hrushevskoho street. [48] [49] | |
Vyacheslav Veremiy | Journalist for Vesti newspaper; lost 1 eye during the Hrushevskoho Street riots weeks prior; survived by a 4-year-old son. [53] | 18 February 2014 | Pulled out of a taxi on his way home from work and then shot in the chest by government-paid thugs. [54] [55] A targeted killing. Driver was also severely beaten with lacerations to his legs. [56] | |
Yakiv Zaiko | Former People's Deputy of Ukraine, Zhytomyr. 73 years old. | 18 February 2014 | Died from heart attack while being chased by "Berkut" special unit. [57] | |
Andriy Chernenko | Slobodo-Petrivka, Poltava Oblast, 35 years old. Survived by 7-month-old daughter. | 19 February 2014 | [39] | |
Yuriy Paskhalin | From Cherkasy Oblast. 30 years old. | 19 February 2014 | 3 Gunshot wounds in the back and 1 pneumatic injury [39] | |
Dmytro Maksymov | From Kyiv, 19 years old. | 18 February 2014 | Injured by a grenade explosion, lost an arm, died of blood loss. [39] | |
Vitaliy Vasyltsov | from Bila Tserkva. 1977 (age 45–46) | 19 February 2014 | Shot on Velyka Zhitomirska st. [58] | |
Serhiy Baidovsky | from Lutsk, originally from Novovolynsk. 22 years old. | 20 February 2014 | Killed on Independence Square [58] | |
Serhiy Bondarchuk | from Starokostiantyniv. 1961 (age 61–62) Teacher of Physics. [59] | 20 February 2014 | Killed by sniper fire [58] [59] | |
Mykola Dziavulsky | Born in Krasnoyarsky Krai, Russia. Lived in Shepetivka, Khmelnytskyi Oblast. 1958 (age 64–65) Teacher of geography and biology | 20 February 2014 | Killed by sniper fire on Instytutska Street. [59] | |
Ustym Holodnyuk | from Zbarazh, Ternopil Oblast, born in 1994 (19 years old) | 20 February 2014 | Shot in the head by sniper fire [59] | |
Eduard Hrynevych | Volyn Oblast, born in 1985 (28 years old) | 20 February 2014 | Shot in the head by a sniper. Brought to St. Michael's Golden-Domed Monastery [39] | |
Serhiy Kemsky | From Kerch, Crimea. 34 years old. | 20 February 2014 | Brought to St. Michael's Golden-Domed Monastery [39] | |
Ihor Kostenko | Journalist from the newspaper Sportanalytic, geography student and contributor to the Ukrainian Wikipedia [60] from Buchach, Ternopil Oblast. 22 years old | 20 February 2014 | Brought to St. Michael's Golden-Domed Monastery [61] | |
Ivan Kreman (Panteleyev) | From Kremenchuk, Poltava Oblast | 20 February 2014 | Killed by sniper fire [59] [62] | |
Andrii Movchan | from Kyiv. 34 years old. Democratic Alliance activist | 20 February 2014 | Killed by sniper fire. According to a friend, Andrii was bringing food to Maidan when he was killed. [63] | |
Roman Nikulichev | Kyiv, 21 years old | 20 February 2014 | [39] | |
Dmytro Pahor | Khmelnytskyi, 21 y/o | 20 February 2014 | Shot in the head next to the SBU office in Khmelnitsky [64] | |
Yuriy Parashchuk | Lived in Kharkiv, born in Talne, Cherkasy Oblast. Born in 1966 (47 y/o) | 20 February 2014 | Shot in the head and killed by sniper fire on Instytutska Street. [39] | |
Anatoliy Korneyev | From Havrylivtsi, Khmelnytskyi Oblast | 20 February 2014 | Killed by sniper fire. [39] | |
Andriy Sayenko | From Fastiv. 42 years old | 20 February 2014 | 7th Sotnia of Maidan Self-Defense. Killed by a sniper [65] | |
Yosyp Shylinh | February 14, 1953 From Drohobych | 20 February 2014 | Shot in the head by a sniper next to October Palace [39] | |
Viktor Chmilenko | Borysivka, Bobrynets Raion 1961 (age 61–62) | 20 February 2014 | Killed by sniper fire [59] | |
Vitaliy Smolinsky | Furmanivka village. From Cherkasy Oblast. | 20 February 2014 | Brought to St. Michael's Golden-Domed Monastery [39] | |
Bohdan Solchanyk | From Stary Sambir, Lviv Oblast, Professor of Ukrainian Catholic University | 20 February 2014 | Brought to St. Michael's Golden-Domed Monastery [39] | |
Igor Tkachuk | Znamensk, Kaliningrad Oblast (Russia) 1975 (age 47–48). Father of three children with the youngest only a year old. | 20 February 2014 | Killed by sniper fire. [59] | |
Bohdan Ilkiv | Shirets, Lviv Oblast, 51 years old | 22 February 2014 | Shot twice in the stomach on Maidan. Died in the hospital. [66] | |
Roman Tochyn | Khodoriv 1970 (age 52–53), Svoboda party member | 20 February 2014 | Shot in the head by a sniper. [59] | |
Oleksandr Tsariok | Kalinin, Vasylkiv Raion, Kyiv Oblast | 20 February 2014 | Killed by sniper fire [59] | |
Oleh Ushnevych | Drohobych 1982 (age 40–41) | 20 February 2014 | Killed by sniper fire [59] | |
Roman Varenytsia | from Yavoriv Raion. December 14, 1978 | 20 February 2014 | Killed by sniper fire [58] [59] | |
Nazar Voytovych | A 17-year-old from Travneve village, Ternopil Oblast | 20 February 2014 | Brought to St. Michael's Golden-Domed Monastery [39] | |
Anatoliy Zhalovaha | Lviv, born in 1980 | 20 February 2014 | Brought to St. Michael's Golden-Domed Monastery [39] | |
Anatoliy Zherebnyh | Rudky, Lviv Oblast | 20 February 2014 | Brought to St. Michael's Golden-Domed Monastery [39] | |
Bohdan Vaida | Letnya village, Lviv Oblast, 48 years old | 20 February 2014 | Shot in the chest by a sniper [39] | |
Volodymyr Chaplinsky | Obukhiv, born in 1979 (34 y/o) | 20 February 2014 | Shot in the neck by a sniper [39] | |
Ihor Dmytriv | Kopanky village, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, 30 years old | 20 February 2014 | Shot in the chest by a sniper [39] | |
Andriy Dyhdalovych | Sokilnyky, Pustomyty Raion, Lviv Oblast, born in 1973 | 20 February 2014 | Shot by a sniper while covering a friend. [39] | |
Roman Hurik | Ivano-Frankivsk, born in 1994 | 19 February 2014 | Shot in the head by a sniper [39] | |
Vitaliy Kotsyuba | Lviv, 32 years old | 20 February 2014 | [39] | |
Oleksandr Khrapachenko | Theatre director from Rivne, originally from Zdolbunov, born in 1987 (26 years old) | 20 February 2014 | Shot in the head and killed by sniper fire. [39] | |
Vasyl Moysey | Born March 23, 1992 (21 years old) in Zubrets, Buchach Raion, Ternopil Oblast. He was living in Kivertsi, Volyn Oblast while a 4th year student at Lutsk University Institute of Human Development "Ukraine". | 20 February 2014 | Shot in the chest by a sniper on the morning of February 20, 2014. He had arrived with the Volyn Self-Defense unit on the Maidan in Kyiv on the night of February 18. He died at the 17th hospital in Kyiv from the gunshot wound, despite having worn a bulletproof vest. [67] [39] [68] | |
Valeriy Opanasyuk | Rivne, born in 1971. Had 4 children. | 20 February 2014 | Shot by a sniper [39] | |
Volodymyr Pavliuk | Kolomyia, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, about 40 years old | 20 February 2014 | Shot 4 times, once in the head. Died in the hospital [39] | |
Leonid Polyansky | About 35 years old | 20 February 2014 | Body found in morgue on Oranhereyna Street [39] | |
Oleksandr Shcherbaniuk | From Chernivtsi, Batkivshchina party member. Afghanistan war veteran. | 20 February 2014 | Shot in the heart by a sniper [39] | |
Maksym Shymko | From Vinnytsia, 33 years old | 20 February 2014 | Shot by a sniper [39] | |
Ivan Tarasiuk | Olyka village, Volyn Oblast, born in 1993, 21 years old | 20 February 2014 | Killed by a sniper. [39] | |
Ivan Bliok | Horodok, Lviv Oblast, born in 1973 (40 y/o) | 20 February 2014 | Shot in the heart by a sniper [39] | |
Mykola Pankiv | Lapayivka, Lviv Oblast, 39 years old | 20 February 2014 | Shot in the chest [39] | |
Vasyly Prohorskiy | Kyiv, 33 years old | 18 February 2014 | Went to Maidan on Feb 18, was missing, found dead and tortured. [39] | |
Viktor Shvets | Hatne village, Kyiv Oblast, born in 1957 | 19 February 2014 | Shot in the stomach 3 times [39] | |
Volodymyr Zherebniy | Born in Vyshnya village (moved to Rudky), Lviv Oblast, born in 1985 (28 years old) | 20 February 2014 | Shot in the neck by a sniper [69] | |
Liudmyla Sheremet | Khmelnytskyi, 73 years old | 22 February 2014 | Shot in the head by an SBU officer on 19 February 2014 during the storming of SBU office in Khmelnitsky. Died in the hospital three days later. [70] [71] | |
Yevhen Kotliar | Kharkiv, born in 1980 (33 y/o) | 20 February 2014 | Shot on Instytutska Street. [72] | |
Ivan Horodniuk | Berezne, Rivne Oblast, 29 years old | 19 February 2014 | On 18 February, was beaten by "Berkut" and soaked from a water cannon. Returned home 19 February and died from a heart attack same night. [39] | |
Andriy Tsepun | Kyiv, 35 years old | 21 February 2014 | EuroMaidan activist, found beaten to death. [73] | |
Maksym Mashkov | 21 February 2014 | Died in the hospital [73] | ||
Maksym Horoshishin | Hrushivka village, Cherkasy Oblast, 25 years old | 18 February 2014 | Died from gas grenade poisoning during the clashes on Instytutska Street. [74] | |
Georgiy Arutiunyan | Georgian Citizen of Armenian descent, lived in Rivne, born in 1960. | 20 February 2014 | Shot by a sniper. Brought to St. Michael's Golden-Domed Monastery [39] | |
Volodymyr Melnychuk | Lived in Kyiv, 40 years old | 20 February 2014 | Was helping Euromaidan activists. Shot in the neck by a sniper while standing next to his wife. [75] | |
David Kipiani | Republic of Georgia | 21 February 2014 | Found wounded, likely shot by a sniper, next to the barricades on Khmelnytsky Street, died in the emergency vehicle. [76] | |
Victor Chernets | Podibna, Cherkasy Oblast, born in 1977 | 19 February 2014 | Died from injury caused by the collision with an unidentified SUV while guarding an improvised checkpoint built to block special units and thugs on Kyiv-Odesa highway. The SUV was storming the checkpoint to open the way for the Interior troops. [77] | |
Oleksandr Scherbatyuk | From Chernivtsi; 46 years old; Jewish; Afghan war veteran | 20 February 2014 | Killed by snipers. [78] | |
Volodymyr Topiy | Vyshnya village, Lviv Oblast, 57 years old | 18 February 2014 | Died during the fire at the Trade Unions Building [79] | |
Volodymyr Zubok | Chernihiv Oblast, born in 1985 | 20 January 2014 | [79] | |
Viktor Khomyak | Euromaidan activist | 27 January 2014 | Body found hung on the Christmas Tree on the Maidan. Details are unknown. [79] | |
Viktor Prokhorchuk | born in 1975 (38 years old) | 18 February 2014 | Member of the self-defense. Was found with his throat slit on the backyard of a Kreshchatik house a week after disappearance on 18 February. [79] | |
Andriy Zhanovachiy | born in 1964 | 20? February 2014 | [79] | |
Volodymyr Boykiv | born in 1955 | 19 February 2014 | [79] | |
Oleksiy Bratushko | From Sumy, born in 1971 | 20 February 2014 | Shot by a sniper on Instytutska Street. [79] | |
Ihor Batchinsky | 30 years old | 25 February 2014 | [79] | |
Mykola Tarshchuk | born in 1975 | 20 February 2014 | Shot in the neck by a sniper [79] | |
Mykola Semisiuk | From Khmelnytskyi, born in 1986 | 20 February 2014 | Shot in the head by a sniper [79] | |
Ihor Pehenko | Vyshhorod, Kyiv Oblast, born in 1970, 43 years old | 20 February 2014 | Shot in the neck by a sniper [80] | |
Vladyslav Zubenko | "Svoboda" Party activist from Kharkiv, born in 1991, 22 years old | 28 February 2014 | Shot by a sniper 20 February, died from the wounds in the hospital. [81] | |
Artem Mazur | 26 years old | 3 March 2014 | Sustained heavy head trauma, died from the wounds in the hospital. [82] | |
Taras Slobodian | From Ternopil Oblast, 31 years old | 5 March 2014 | Body was found in the woods of Sumskiy Forest [83] in October 2013? (query date - precedes date of death) [84] | |
Mykhailo Kostyshyn | Nyzhniy Strutyn, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast | 26 February 2014 | Was on Maidan from the first days. Beaten to death in January 2014, was in the hospital for almost a month but did not recover. [85] | |
Artur Khuntsaar | From Ivano-Frankivsk, born in 1984 (29 years old) | 18 February 2014 | Killed by a sniper. | |
Yuriy Nechiporuk | From Khmilnyk, Vinnytsia Oblast, 30 years old | 18 February 2014 | Euromaidan activist, kidnapped and killed by thugs. Sustained 20 knife wounds. [86] | |
Anatoliy Kurach | From Rivne | 21 February 2014 | Died because of a head trauma received on Maidan [87] | |
Oleksandr Badera | From Volodymyr-Volynsky, born in 1948 (66 years old) | 28 January 2014 | Died because of trauma received 22 January 2014 on Hrushevskoho Street. | |
Oleksandr Baliuk | From Lypovy village, Zhytomyr Oblast, born in 1974 (39 years old) | 20 February 2014 | Received a firearm wound to the chest. Was trying to rescue another person. [88] | |
Reshat Ametov | From Crimea, born in 1975. Father of 3 children. | 3 March 2014? | Participated in the protests against separatism movement. Disappeared 3 March, found on 15 March tortured to death. [89] | |
Vyacheslav Vorona | Born in Prypyat, lived in Kyiv | 9 March 2014 | Received a head injury during the clashes, was brought to the intensive care, never recovered from coma. | |
Vasyl Aksenin | From Letyache, Ternopil Oblast, born in 1961. | 12 March 2014 | Was heavily wounded on 20 February in Kyiv. At the end of February he was sent for treatment to Poland, but did not survive. | |
Olha Bura | From Rypne, Lviv Oblast, born in 1986. | 10 March 2014 | Participated in the protests since the end of November. Died at a hospital from the serious injuries received during the clashes. | |
Vasyl Sheremet | From Lanchyn, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, born in 1949 (64 y/o). | 7 March 2014 | Died from wounds sustained during the clashes with "Berkut" | |
Ivan Nakonechny | From Kyiv, born in 1931 (82 years old). | 7 March 2014 | Navy officer. Was on the Euromaidan since 30 November. Died from wounds sustained during the clashes on Instytutska Street on 19 February 2014. | |
Petro Hadzha | Lived in Kyiv, born in Rakhiv, Zakarpattia Oblast, born in 1966 (47 years old). | 22 March 2014 | Was on the Euromaidan since its first days. Member of the 8th Sotnia. Died in the hospital due to gas poisoning which he had sustained during the clashes on Hrushevskoho Street. | |
Dmytro Chernyavskiy | Born in the Donetsk Oblast. Studied at Lviv National University, born in 1992 (22 years old). | 13 March 2014 | On 13 March, participated in the meeting for the unity of Ukraine in the city of Donetsk. Was stabbed to death in clashes with pro-Russian activists. | |
Roman Olikh | Born in the village of Hybalivka, Vinnytsia Oblast. | 15 February 2014 | Came to Maidan in January. On the 6th of February he was injured and taken to a hospital in Kyiv. Fell into coma and never recovered. |
There are currently some unidentified activists who were reported killed during the conflict.
On February 18, 2014 militants from the Social-National Assembly and the Patriots of Ukraine seized and burned down the central office of the ruling Party of Regions. [103] A 57-year-old IT engineer Vladimir Konstantinovich Zakharov died in the fire. According to Party of Regions' statement, Zakharov proposed to the attackers to provide an exit route for the women office workers and was mortally struck in the head with a bat. [104] According to the Ukrainian news site Censor.net, Zakharov died of carbon monoxide poisoning while taking money from the office's safe. [105] On April 10, 2020 Ukraine's State Bureau of Investigations handed a murder suspicion notice to a former People's Deputy of Ukraine Tetiana Chornovol. Chornovol is accused of "controlling actions of a group of people and directly participating in the arson" of the Party of Regions office building. [106]
The Maidan activists seeking the change of government were opposed by the Ukrainian police force. As of 2 March, The Ministry of Internal Affairs reported 18 police officer fatalities related to the conflict. [1] Two deaths which occurred during the crisis were considered by The Interior Ministry's as having no relation to Euromaidan or civil unrest. [107] In addition, according to the Minister of Internal Affairs, another police officer, 30-year-old captain of the Internal Troops of Ukraine Dmytro Donets, had died from a heart attack. [108] On 18 February, six officers were killed in action against protest camps in Kyiv. [109]
Nationality | Rank | Name | Details | Date of death | Reference |
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Lieutenant | Dmytro Vlasenko | Born 1982, Internal Troops (Crimea) | 18 February 2014 | [110] | |
Lieutenant | Vitaliy Honcharov | Born 1989, Internal Troops (Crimea) | 18 February 2014 | [110] | |
Lieutenant | Volodymyr Yevtushok | Born 1971, Patrol Service (Kyiv) | 18 February 2014 | [110] [111] | |
Senior Lieutenant | Andriy Fediukin | Born 1972, Berkut (Crimea) | 18 February 2014 | [110] | |
Oleksiy Ivanenko | Born 1977, Internal Troops (Kharkiv) | 18 February 2014 | [110] | ||
Lieutenant | Petro Savitsky | Born 1972, Patrol Service (Kyiv) | 18 February 2014 | [110] | |
Sergeant | Vasil' Bulitko | Born 1986, Berkut (Kyiv) | 18 February 2014 | [110] | |
Sergeant | Serhiy Tsvihun | Born 1990, Berkut (Zaporizhia) | 18 February 2014 | [110] | |
Ivan Tepliuk | Born 1993, Internal Troops (Kyiv) | 18 February 2014 | [110] | ||
Maxim Tretiak | Born 1993, Internal Troops (Kyiv) | 18 February 2014 | [110] | ||
Serhiy Spichak | Berdyansk (Zaporizhia region) | 19 February 2014 | [112] | ||
Volodymyr Zubok | [112] | ||||
Vitaliy Zakharchenko | [112] | ||||
Roman Kizik | [112] | ||||
Nazariy Myrka | [112] | ||||
Serhiy Mikhaylovych | [112] | ||||
Mykola Simisiuk | [112] |
Ukrainian sources often refer the pro-Euromaidan activists who died during Euromaidan as "The Heavenly Hundred". [113] In April 2014, the Kyiv City State Administration and Culture Ministry of Ukraine stated that they expected to open a memorial complex "to the heroes of Heavenly Hundred" in February 2015, on the occasion of the anniversary of the death activists. [114] On 1 July 2014, the Verkhovna Rada (the parliament of Ukraine) established the Medal "Order of the Heavenly Hundred Heroes". [115] [116] On 25 August 2014, President Petro Poroshenko claimed he had called the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election in order to purify parliament of MPs who had supported "the [January 2014] Dictatorship laws that took the lives of the Heavenly hundred". [117] [118]
Kyiv City Council renamed a part of Instytutska Street into Heavenly Hundred Heroes Avenue on 20 November 2014. [119]
President Poroshenko decreed on 11 February 2015 that 20 February will annually be commemorated as "Day of the Heavenly Hundred Heroes"; his decree also establish (an action plan to accomplish) a museum in Kyiv dedicated to Euromaidan. [5] [6] On 20 February, it is compulsory for Ukrainian TV channels to display a flaming candle or a similar stylized image, and, at 12:00, a minute of silence must be observed. [120]
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Euromaidan, or the Maidan Uprising, was a wave of demonstrations and civil unrest in Ukraine, which began on 21 November 2013 with large protests in Maidan Nezalezhnosti in Kyiv. The protests were sparked by the Ukrainian government's sudden decision not to sign the European Union–Ukraine Association Agreement, instead choosing closer ties to Russia and the Eurasian Economic Union. Ukraine's parliament had overwhelmingly approved of finalizing the Agreement with the EU, while Russia had put pressure on Ukraine to reject it. The scope of the protests widened, with calls for the resignation of President Viktor Yanukovych and the Azarov Government. The protesters opposed what they saw as widespread government corruption, the influence of oligarchs, abuse of power, and violation of human rights in Ukraine. Transparency International named Yanukovych as the top example of corruption in the world. The violent dispersal of protesters on 30 November caused further anger. The Euromaidan led to the 2014 Revolution of Dignity.
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As part of the Euromaidan movement, regional state administration (RSA) buildings in various oblasts (regions) of Ukraine were occupied by activists, starting on 23 January 2014.
Euromaidan was a wave of demonstrations and civil unrest in Ukraine, which began on the night of 21 November 2013 with large public protests demanding closer European integration. Protesters also stated they joined because of the dispersal of protesters on 30 November and "a will to change life in Ukraine". The scope of the protests evolved over subsequent months, and by 25 January 2014 the protests were fueled by the perception of widespread government corruption, abuse of power, and violation of human rights in Ukraine. By February 2014 the protests had largely escalated into violence, resulting in the Revolution of Dignity and the resignation of Azarov's government and ousting of President Yanukovych. This resulted in the outbreak of the Russo-Ukrainian War.
Automaidan is a pro-European Ukrainian socio-political movement involving the use of cars and trucks as means of protest that first began in late 2013 in Kyiv within the advent of Euromaidan.
The Revolution of Dignity also known as the Maidan Revolution or the Ukrainian Revolution, took place in Ukraine in February 2014 at the end of the Euromaidan protests, when deadly clashes between protesters and the security forces in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv culminated in the ousting of elected President Viktor Yanukovych, the overthrow of the Ukrainian government, and the outbreak of the Russo-Ukrainian War.
The anti-Maidan refers to a number of pro-Russian demonstrations in Ukraine in 2013 and 2014 that were directed against Euromaidan and later the new Ukrainian government. The initial participants were in favor of supporting the cabinet of the second Azarov government, President Viktor Yanukovych, and closer ties with Russia. By the time of the Revolution of Dignity in February 2014, the “anti-Maidan” movement had begun to decline, and after the overthrow of Yanukovych, the anti-Maidan fractured into various other groups, which partially overlapped. These ranged from people protesting against social ills, to supporters of a federalization of Ukraine, to pro-Russian separatists and nationalists.
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The Order of the Heaven's Hundred Heroes is an order of Ukraine presented for civil courage, patriotism and the defense of the constitutional principles of democracy, human rights and freedom; humanitarian, social and charitable activities; selfless service to the Ukrainian people during the Euromaidan-protests; as well as any events related to the protection of the independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine.
The National Police of Ukraine, often simply referred to as the Politsiya, is the national, and only, police service of Ukraine. It was formed on 3 July 2015, as part of the post-Euromaidan reforms launched by Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko, to replace Ukrainian's previous national police service, the Militsiya. On 7 November 2015, all the remaining militsiya were labelled "temporary acting" members of the National Police.
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Antonina Grigorivna Dvoryanets was a Ukrainian hydraulic engineer and political activist. She began her career as an hydraulic engineer at a collective farm in Hornostaipil from 1972 to 1983 and then worked as a senior project group engineer at the Chernobyl Department of Drainage Systems between 1983 and 1987. Dvoryanets worked as a liquidator, clearing the consequences of the Chernobyl disaster at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in 1986. She later worked variously at the Land Reclamation and Water Management, Kyiv, then at the Chornobilvodeksploatsiya in Kyiv and the Chernobyl Special Plant until her retirement in 2014. As an activist, Dvoryanets took part in the Ukraine without Kuchma mass protest, the Orange Revolution and the Euromaidan. She was posthumously conferred the title of Hero of Ukraine with the Order of the Gold Star and a street in Brovary was named for her.
Olha Vasylivna Bura was a Ukrainian activist who took part in the Euromaidan protests in Kyiv from late 2013 to early 2014. Born to a poor family in Busk Raion, she did not have a permanent place to work due to illness, doing various jobs in the family home, working briefly at a local bakery as well as doing childcare. Busk died after contracting a blood infection from her hand being injured by members of the Berkut some days before consulting doctors. She was posthumously conferred the title of Hero of Ukraine with the Order of the Gold Star, a memorial plaque was installed on the primary school in Ripniv she attended was attended and a sign in the Alley of Memory of the Heroes of the Heavenly Hundred of Lviv Region in Khodoriv was named for her.
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