A petition to award the title of Hero of Ukraine (posthumously) to 16-year-old Stepan Chubenko, who was killed by Russian mercenaries in 2014 for his pro-Ukrainian stance, has garnered over 25,000 votes.
This was reported on Facebook by the editor-in-chief of Censor.NET .
“16-year-old Stepan Chubenko was killed by Russian mercenaries in 2014 for finding a yellow-and-blue ribbon on him. He became the first minor child to die as a result of Putin’s war in Donbas. In 2014, a yellow-and-blue ribbon in Donetsk became a pretext for murder.
“I ask the head of state and the awards department of the president’s office to consider the petition and make a decision. This is a tragic and unforgettable page of our history for every Ukrainian, a milestone in the struggle for independence, which should be engraved in generations. I would like to say a special word about Stepan’s family – true active patriots of Ukraine. I deeply respect his mother – the incredible Stalina Chubenko,” he noted.
Read the interview with Stepan Chubenko’s mother for Censor.NET at the link .
Stepan Chubenko
Stepan Chubenko was born in 1997 in Kramatorsk and dreamed of becoming a professional football player. In 2014, together with his friends, he participated in support of the territorial integrity of Ukraine. Together with his friends, he helped the soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine who arrived in the city. During the shelling, he helped the elderly to go down to the shelter, carried them water when the city was cut off from the water supply. Risking his life, Stepan removed the “DPR” flag from the city square.
In June 2014, Stepan was detained in Donetsk by Russian terrorists from the “Kerch” battalion, according to one version – for the blue-yellow ribbon on his backpack. According to the investigation, confirmed in the Ukrainian court, Stepan was tortured and shot by “DPR” militants for his pro-Ukrainian position. Stepan Chubenko was posthumously awarded the Order of the “People’s Hero of Ukraine” and the Order “For Courage” of the 3rd degree.
The pre-trial investigation established that on July 28, 2014, three residents of Donetsk region in the village of Gorbacheva-Mykhailivka, Proletarsky district of Donetsk, killed a young man with a firearm. The suspects in the murder were named – Yuriy Moskalyov, Maksym Sukhomlynov and Vadim Pogodin.
In the occupied Crimea, at the request of Ukraine, the militant of the “DPR” Pogodin was arrested. He was detained on June 20, 2017 in Yalta and was arrested for 40 days by a court decision.
On July 21, the Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine requested the extradition of a Russian mercenary to the Russian Federation.
On July 30, it became known that the occupiers in Crimea released the “DPR” terrorist Pogodin, who is accused of killing schoolboy Chubenko in Donbas.
In 2020, Vadym Pogodin, who killed Ukrainian schoolboy Stepan Chubenko in Donbas, became deputy director of the company “Technologies and Restorations”, which repairs streets, stairs, and other objects in occupied Crimea.
Author: Bohdan Rusinko Джерело: https://censor.net/ua/n3562279
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