Olexiy Bratushka
38, private entrepreneur,
Sumy
“In January, when it all just started in Hrushevskyi street, I had a feeling I must stop him... I had a foreboding he wouldn't come back. In February he didn’t listen to me, just sais, “Dad, don't you try to make a rat of me. I’ll be back in two days’ time.” And he did keep his promise. In two days' time they brought him back... In a coffin...” recalls the father of Olexiy Bratushka—Serhiy Fedorovych.
Olexiy had visited the Maidan more than once, and he only went there on the most hectic days. As the tension subsided, he came back home. When he saw on TV the c*****e of February 18, he started getting ready for a trip to Kyiv right away. Knowing that the authorities were hunting for and catching potential protesters at the approaches to th
