Yuriy Parashchuk
47, furniture assembler,
Kharkiv
On those horrifying photos of protesters in the morning of February 20 in Instytutska street one can see a bright purple jacket belonging to Yuriy Parashchuk that keeps turning up here and there in the crowd. The people retreating from the streets under sniper attacks are dragging along their wounded brothers. Someone's amateur video captured by chance the last minutes of a 47 year-old hero of the Celestial Hundred.
A few hours later his wife Olga shaken by the news from the capital tried to contact her husband from Kharkiv. For a long time there was no response. Then a stranger called her from Yuriy’s phone, asked her to sit down and said that her husband was no longer alive.
Yuriy Pankov, who lived in Kharkiv, went to the Maidan many
