The Heavenly Hundred – 107 deceased participants of the Revolution of Dignity, as well as Maidan activists who died in the winter and spring of 2014 with the beginning of Russian aggression in eastern Ukraine. The name “Heavenly Hundred” arose by analogy with the main structural units of the Maidan Self-Defense – the hundreds. It was first used during the farewell to the deceased on the capital’s Independence Square on February 21-22, 2014.
It was on February 20, 2014, that the largest number of people died in the center of Kyiv – 48. They, along with the other 54 dead and mortally wounded participants in peaceful protests during the winter of 2013-2014 and the five Maidan activists who died in the spring of 2014 for the democratic values and territorial integrity of Ukraine, were named Heroes of the Heavenly Hundred.
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