Vladyslav Zubenko
22, railroad worker,
Kharkiv
“Make your tea strong
Ward off evil dreams that come along.
I am afraid that I get it —
None of those fears shall matter.”
Vladyslav Zybenko—the Hero of the Celestial Hundred — once wrote these lines. On January 18 he was preparing for his trip to Kyiv and his father helped him pack. That was the last time he spoke to his grandfather.
Vladyslav was set on going to Kyiv. In the evening of the next day, Vlad called his father and told him that he enlisted to one of the units of the self-defense troops. The very next day he stopped answering his phone as he was seriously wounded and hospitalized. A 5.45 mm bullet turned out to be fatal for the young man. It injured his kidney, liver, lungs, diaphragm and spinal cord. The doctors removed a
