Sergei Bondarev
32, programmer,
Kyiv
“Hi, Seryozha. The working day is over, I’m about to go home. What are your plans?
“I’m off to the Maidan.
“All right. For how long?
“Today I’ll stay till the very end!” Sergei's spouse Svetlana recalls her talk with her husband on February 18.
And that’s what really happened. It was his last battle. Sergei never came back home again. He was killed—shot with four bullets on February 18. The family found out about the tragedy two days later.
“We couldn't reach Seryozha by phone after 7:40 pm when we last spoke with him. He said everything was calm on the Maidan, wanted to go and have supper and promised to call regularly. I called him all the time after 8 pm—there was no answer. By next morning his both telephones were off. When he didn’t come in
