Valeriy Brezdeniuk
50, painter,
Zhmerynka, Vinnytsya region
Into Eternity I'm silently stepping
And I’m leaving you all tonight
’cause in Heaven I’m waited, I’m waited
By my sotnya—Celestial Hundred.
Yelena Kushpane, a resident of Zhmerynka, wrote a poem and dedicated it to her townsman, a Ukrainian painter Valeriy Brezdeniuk. He was treacherously shot in the back and killed on the Maidan on February 18.
“I last called him at 8 pm. After that his phone didn’t answer,—says the spouse of the hero of the Celestial Hundred Yaroslava Melnyk.—I ran out of money on my mobile phone, so I switched on my notebook to top it up. On the Twitter immediately a picture emerged—four bodies covered with some cloth or polyethylen. I recognized Valeriy’s boots and jeans...”
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