Roman Gurik
19, student,
Ivano-Frankivsk
“...Tattoo on the body. A daypack with a pair of gym shoes and sweetie wrappers. On the head—a hole 10 by 7 cm with bone fragments, burned hair and skin, brain tissue. Diagnosis: gunshot wound to the head, penetrating craniocerebral injury. While I was holding his arm trying to instal a drip, he automatically, reflexively, instinctively pressed my fingers in his hand. I will never forget this deperate attempt to hold onto life. I’ll never forget this last handshake. The medics and protesters who pushed Roma’s stretcher into the ambulance
kept shouting the parting wishes to him, “Hold on, boy! Glory to the heroes!” such were the last minutes of life of the hero of the Celestial Hundred Roman Gurik according to Varvara Shpits, a volunteer. Another
