3/ This is not just a date.
It’s a promise:
To be worthy of their sacrifice.
To keep fighting.
To never let Moscow rewrite our story.
Glory to Ukraine. Glory to the heroes.
Support the army.
We will win.

2/ We remember the Heavenly Hundred.
We remember those killed in the ATO, JFO and now, on every front of this full-scale russian war.
Our freedom exists because they stood.
Our future was bought with blood.
We owe them memory and victory.

4/ Beatified by Pope John Paul II in 2001.
Righteous Among the Nations (1996).
Klymentiy Sheptytsky was a man of nobility in the truest sense - moral, not just inherited.
A conscience of Ukraine.
A martyr of dignity.
A name we must never let vanish.

3/ He and Andrey saved hundreds of Jews during the Holocaust, including future Chief Rabbis of Israel & Argentina.
In 1947, Soviets arrested him for refusing to betray the Church.
Tortured, interrogated, never broke.
Died in Vladimir prison. Buried in an unmarked grave.

2/ He worked in the monastery kitchen, wore rags, slept on an iron bed.
Abbot of Univ Lavra. Adviser to his brother, Metropolitan Andrey.
Secretly ordained bishop. A pillar of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church during terror and war.

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3/ Makukh’s protest inspired Jan Palach, Romas Kalanta, Musa Mamut.
The first modern act of self-immolation in Europe.
Buried in Dnipro. Honored in memory.
His message still burns: Ukraine must be free. russia must be defeated.

2/ Makukh, a former UPA fighter, spent years in Siberian camps.
Barred from returning home, he carried Ukraine’s pain until the end.
As he lay dying, a doctor said, “Your kids will be orphans.”
Makukh replied: “...Right now, we are all orphans. Ukraine is an orphan.”

3/ Commander Roman Shukhevych wrote:

“The UPA’s fight on two fronts - against Hitler & Stalin - was a battle for Ukraine’s "to be or not to be".”

2/ The first UPA units formed in Volyn & Polissya under Taras Borovets (“Bulba”) to defend Ukrainians from both Nazi & Soviet occupiers.

In 1947, the Ukrainian Supreme Liberation Council officially declared Oct 14 the UPA Day.

2/ To honor his legacy, in 2019 PEN Ukraine established the Heorhiy Gongadze Prize – awarded to journalists who embody integrity, courage, and commitment to the profession.
We remember Gongadze and every reporter who risks everything to keep the truth alive. 💙💛