Poroshenko honors memory of Ukrainian Kruty Heroes
Ukrainian officials commemorate the Heroes of Kruty, January 29, 2016. (UNIAN Photo)
On January 29, 1918, 400 Ukrainian students and soldiers fought at the Kruty railway station near Kyiv against 4,000 Bolshevik soldiers
UNIAN: On the Day of Kruty Heroes, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko paid tribute to the heroic feat of Ukrainians executed by the Bolshevik Red Army on January 29, 1918 at Kruty, according to the official website of the President of Ukraine.
The heroes sacrificed their lives to prevent Bolsheviks from entering Kyiv in 1918. A unit, consisting of 400 Ukrainian students and soldiers, fought at the Kruty railway station near Kyiv against 4,000 Bolshevik soldiers.
The Head of State together with ATO participants, Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Volodymyr Groysman, Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk, Kyiv Mayor Vitaliy Klitschko, officials of the Cabinet of Ministers and the Presidential Administration and public figures laid flowers to the Kruty Heroes Memorial Cross in the Askold’s Grave, the report says.
The attendees honored memory of the fallen heroes with a moment of silence.