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🇺🇦🇷🇺 On March 6, 2023, the world saw a video that lasted only 12 seconds — but those seconds revealed the true cost of freedom. A Ukrainian prisoner of war stands in a shallow trench, a cigarette in his hand. Russian soldiers surround him. Calm and unafraid, he looks forward and says just two words: “Slava Ukraini!” Seconds later, automatic gunfire erupts. The man in that video was later identified as Oleksandr Matsievskyi, a sniper from the 163rd Battalion of the 119th Separate Territorial Defense Brigade from the Chernihiv region. His final act of defiance turned him into a symbol of courage for Ukraine and for the world. In late December 2022, Matsievskyi and several comrades moved to a forest line near the village of Chervona Hora, close to Bakhmut, to support Ukrainian defensive positions. A small group of five soldiers tried to hold back repeated Russian assaults. According to his fellow fighters, the attacks came in waves. Russian troops advanced again and again, even stepping over their own fallen. Sergeant Vasyl Zamola later explained that Russian forces eventually managed to flank their position. Ukrainian units tried several times to break through and reach them, but the intensity of enemy fire made it impossible. When night came, the platoon was forced to withdraw to safer positions. Otherwise, everyone would have been killed. After the battle, Oleksandr Matsievskyi was listed as missing. His mother, Paraskovia Demchuk from Nizhyn, had last spoken to him on December 29. When news about losses in the battalion began to circulate, she feared the worst. Weeks later, police contacted her. At the morgue she recognized her son by a scar above his eyebrow and a birthmark on his leg. His body had been riddled with bullets. At the time, she still did not know exactly how he had died. Only in March 2023 did she come across the short execution video circulating online. The soldier in that video was her son. His comrades confirmed it, and later the Security Service of Ukraine officially identified him as Oleksandr Matsievskyi. His last words — “Slava Ukraini!” — quickly spread around the world and became a symbol of Ukraine’s unbreakable spirit. Matsievskyi was born in Moldova, where his mother had worked at a shoe factory. He later moved with his family to Nizhyn, where he worked as an electrician. When Russia launched its full-scale invasion, he joined the Territorial Defense without hesitation. By December 2022 he was already fighting near Bakhmut, experiencing real combat for the first time. Even in captivity, he remained a soldier. His comrades, whose remains were found beside him, now lie buried near him in Nizhyn. “He showed that the spirit of Ukraine is unbreakable,” his mother later said. Oleksandr Matsievskyi was posthumously awarded the title Hero of Ukraine. His final words still echo around the world — a reminder that in the fight for freedom, even one voice can become the voice of an entire nation. Eternal memory to the Hero.

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