Hundreds of people flocked this Saturday to the Saint-Michel-au-Dôme-d'Or monastery in the center of kyiv to attend the funeral of a young Ukrainian activist killed in action in the East, who was a figure of the movement pro-European Maidan, noted AFP.
Roman Ratouchny died on June 9 near Izium, in the Kharkiv region.
Having gone to fight in the ranks of the Ukrainian army like many other civilians since the start of the Russian offensive, Roman Ratouchny was one of the first students to protest at the end of 2013 on Independence Square (Maidan in Ukrainian). .
This launched the protest movement that caused the departure of pro-Russian President Viktor Yanukovych in 2014.
A gathering is scheduled for midday in Independence Square and the coffin will be buried in the Baikove cemetery, in the south of kyiv, where many Ukrainian personalities are buried.
