A mural depicting a fallen Ukrainian soldier executed by Russian forces in 2022 has appeared in the heart of Kyiv on the side of a government building.
The sighting was celebrated in a Facebook post by the Ukrainian parliament on Saturday. Created by Paris-based French street artist Christian Guemy, better known as C215, the mural depicts the late Oleksandr Matsiyevsky – a sniper with the 163rd Battalion of the 119th Separate Tank Brigade of the Chernihiv Region. Matsiyevsky was shot dead by Russian forces on December 30 after being reported missing near the village of Krasna Hora in the Donetsk region.
“I want us all to respond to his words in unity,” he said in his nightly address. “Glory to the hero. Glory to heroes. Glory to Ukraine.” Zelensky posthumously awarded Matsiyevsky Ukraine’s highest honor, the “Hero of Ukraine” medal later that month.
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