- Title: Hundreds honour prominent Ukrainian activist killed on the frontline
- Date: 19th April 2024
- Summary: (SOUNDBITE) (Ukrainian) PAVLO PETRYCHENKO’S COLLEAGUE, KOSTIANTYN BATOTSKYI, SAYING: “After full-scale invasion started, we worked together at Sergiy Prytula Fund where Pasha was an engine who gathered people and turned the fund into a working mechanism. Then he was mobilized, it was his own decision.” MOURNERS OUTSIDE CATHEDRAL (SOUNDBITE) (Ukrainian) PAVLO PETRYCHENKO’S COLLEAGUE, KOSTIANTYN BATOTSKYI, SAYING: “He was funny, full of optimism and he loved life very much.”
- Embargoed: 3rd May 2024 15:41
- Keywords: Pavlo Petrychenko Russian invasion Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation funeral war in Ukraine
- Location: KYIV, UKRAINE
- City: KYIV, UKRAINE
- Country: Ukraine
- Topics: Conflicts/War/Peace,Europe,Military Conflicts
- Reuters ID: LVA007649919042024RP1
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: Hundreds of mourners gathered at St. Michael’s Cathedral in Kyiv on Friday (April 19) to honour a prominent Ukrainian activist and soldier who was killed in action at the frontline.
Pavlo Petrychenko, who served in the 59th separate mechanized brigade, died on April 15, the day before turning 32 years old.
Before joining the army in April 2022, Petrychenko set up Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation which collects money for the military.
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