Edward Grynevych
28, private entrepreneur,
Derevok, Volyn region
“Edik, what is it you are doing? What the heck for are you visiting that Maidan? All the people around are living somehow—a bit better, a bit worse. And you— what is it you want? We’ve got a cow, we've got milk... I'm not going abroad anymore—I’ll be here, looking after you. You’ll get married, you’ll have children. And he goes, “Oh, mum, you don’t understand anything!” And he keeps talking about Ukraine, all the time about Ukraine. ”Svitlana Ivanivna, the mother of the hero of the Celestial Hundred Edward Grynevych recalls her conversations with her son. On February 20 her Edik was killed by a sniper’s bullet.
Edward was the only one in his village—30 miles from Byelorussian border and almost 500 miles from Kyiv—who kept
