Yevhen Kotlyar
33, industrial alpinist,
Kharkiv
“On February 20 at about 7 am. I called him. He said he was going to stay there for a while and then come back. Then the shooting began. He went to Instytut-ska street to carry the killed and wounded,” Yevhen's friend Anna Polyak recalls that terrible day. “At 9:55 am Jenya was shot in the neck by a sniper, and at that same moment another bullet hit him in the thigh. It happened up Instytutska street—past Hotel Ukraine. The hero of the Celestial Hundred died in the ambulance on its way to the hospital.”
He arrived in Kyiv on December 1— immediately after the students were brutally beaten on November 30 on the Maidan. “My son was messaging some friend in social networks.
He wrote, 'you can’t build new Ukraine just sitting snug in front of
