Bohdan Ilkiv
51, railway truck driver,
the village of Shchyrets, Lviv region
In the morning of February 19 when Bohdan’s relatives asked him what he was doing he answered, “We are just sitting quietly and drinking tea with cookies.” “He liked to joke around but he did so keeping a straight face. So only those people who knew Bohdan well could understand that he was having a laugh,” his sister Oksana Nikonova recalls.
On February 20 at about 7:30 his wife called, hearing the bullets whistling past she asked what was going on. Her husband answered that he could not speak at that moment. In half an hour when his mother called, he no longer picked up the phone. At 9:30 Bohdan himself called his wife and said that he was so badly wounded that he could see his own intestines. He said that he
