OZON Monitored the Procession Honoring the First Fallen Heroes of the Heavenly Hundred 

On Wednesday, January 22, the NGO “Families of the Heavenly Hundred”, the Third Hundred of the Maidan Self-Defense, the Kyiv Three-Holy Theological Seminary of the UGCC, and the National Museum of the Revolution of Dignity organized a march to honor the first fallen Heroes of the Heavenly Hundred. OZON volunteers began monitoring at 5:59 p.m.

Main events

Participants gathered near the Lyadsky Gate, lit lamps, and gave media commentary. Using a loudspeaker, the organizers guided the participants through the march’s plan: Participants with portraits of the fallen Heroes of the Heavenly Hundred and flags were to move first, and participants with and without lamps were to follow behind.

In particular, the participants held portraits of Bohdan Kalyniak, Serhiy Nihoyan, Mykhailo Zhyznevsky, Oleksandr Badera, Yuriy Verbytsky. At 18:23, the column began to form, and at 18:27, it had already started moving. The march moved along the route:

18:27–18:46 – movement from Lyadsky Gate to the memorial cross on Bohdan Khmelnytsky Street. The assembly moved along the carriageway from the side of the gate to the side of the Alley of Heroes of the Heavenly Hundred and continued towards European Square. It is important that traffic lights were not working on Khreshchatyk Street, and traffic was provided by a traffic controller, who stopped traffic at the moment of approach. Dialogue police and patrol officers ensured traffic safety by standing on both sides of the procession. During the movement, participants shouted slogans, and at 18:46, they stopped at the memorial cross on Hrushevskoho Street, held a minute of silence, and sang the anthem of Ukraine.

18:50 – movement to the memorial to Mykhailo Zhyznevsky. Participants placed lamps and laid flowers.

18:54 – movement to the memorial to Oleksandr Badera and Roman Senyk. Participants placed lamps and laid flowers.

19:02 – movement to the Memorial Complex of Heroes of Kyiv who Died for the Integrity and Independence of Ukraine. Near the complex, participants sang the Ukrainian anthem and placed lamps.

19:06 – movement to the memorial to Serhiy Nigoyan. The representatives of the Kyiv Three-Holiness Theological Seminary of the UGCC read a prayer for the fallen heroes of the Heavenly Hundred. After that, the head of the National Memorial Complex of the Heroes of the Heavenly Hundred – Museum of the Revolution of Dignity, Ihor Poshyvaylo, and the wife of the Hero of the Heavenly Hundred Viktor Shvets Tamara Shvets spoke. They recalled the importance of the memory of the Heroes of the Heavenly Hundred, the Revolution of Dignity, and support for the defenders of Ukraine.

At 19:30, the organizers announced the end of the peaceful assembly. OZON volunteers completed monitoring at 19:42.

Number of participants

At the peak of the action, OZON volunteers recorded 69 participants with an error of 10 people.

During the action, the following slogans were heard:

• Glory to Ukraine! Glory to the Heroes!
• Glory to the nation! Death to the enemies!
• Ukraine above all!
• For the Heroes of Ukraine three times: Glory! Glory! Glory!
• Heroes do not die!
• For the Heroes of the Heavenly Hundred three times: Glory! Glory! Glory!
• For the Heroes of the Revolution of Dignity three times: Glory! Glory! Glory!
• Long live Belarus! Long live eternal!
• To the Armed Forces of Ukraine three times: Glory! Glory! Glory!

Media: Espreso.TV, NV, Suspilne news, Kyiv24, Channel 5, Hromadske

Flags: the flags of Ukraine, the flags of “Maidan Self-Defense” and “Revolution of Dignity”.

Law enforcement work

The peaceful assembly was secured by:

• 5 officers of the Dialogue Police;
• 1 officer of the Main Directorate of the National Police in Kyiv.
• Volunteers also recorded 2 police officers without any identification marks (probably the Main Directorate of the National Police).

It is important that the assembly’s movement along Khreshchatyk and Hrushevsky streets was accompanied by 2 patrol cars, 1 unmarked car, and 1 dialogue police car. These cars partially blocked traffic on Hrushevsky street while the procession moved to the Mykhailo Zhyznevsky memorial and the memorial to Oleksandr Badera and Roman Senyk.

OZON volunteers Yan Dubitsky, Bohdan Horobets-Kalashnyk, and Ivanka Malchevska, the coordinator of the monitoring group, carried out monitoring.