Volodymyr Boykiv
59, businessman,
Kyiv
“I don't know what made him go to Maidan on that day,” Natalia, wife of the Celestial Hundred hero Volodymyr Boykiv, sounds puzzled. “Volodia went to Sunday meetings and peaceful gatherings and always came home before the evening time. But on February 18 he went to stay there through the night.”
At 23:00 Natalia heard her husband’s voice for the last time, “He was near a water cannon truck, I was begging him to go home, I had seen in the news that there had been casualties. It must have been at that moment that something happened, he did not answer me. The line went dead.”
Volodymyr did not come home in the morning. Natalia called to enquire about him at the hospitals. Then she called the morgues. She announced his disappearance on TV and from th
