Heroes of Heavenly Hundred are true guardian angels of Ukraine - Poroshenko
The Heroes of the Heavenly Hundred have given the most important thing they had for the better fate of the country - their lives.
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko wrote this on his Facebook page on Tuesday after commemorating the deceased heroes on the Heroes of the Heavenly Hundred Alley in Kyiv.
"The Heroes of the Heavenly Hundred are true guardian angels of Ukraine. They gave the most important thing that they had - their lives - for the better fate for us, having become forever the benchmark for future generations of free Ukrainians... Heroes do not die..." Poroshenko wrote.
Today Ukraine marks the Day of Heroes of the Heavenly Hundred. It is marked annually on February 20 in accordance with a presidential decree of February 11, 2015 "On honoring the feat of the participants in the Revolution of Dignity and the commemoration of the Heroes of the Heavenly Hundred."