Ukrainian poet and prose writer Myroslav Herasymovych killed in action

Mariia Kabatsii — Friday, 29 November 2024, 18:27

Myroslav Herasymovych (real name Myroslav Kulyk), a Ukrainian poet, prose writer and screenwriter, was killed in action in Avdiivka, Donetsk Oblast.

Source: Herasymovych’s brother Taras Kulyk on Facebook 

Quote: "In the battle with Russia, my brother, Myroslav Kulyk, gave away his life in the city of Avdiivka, Donetsk Oblast," Kulyk wrote.

His brother specified that Myroslav Herasymovych was killed on 25 November, four days before his birthday. On 29 November, the poet was supposed to have turned 57.

Journalist Myroslava Barchuk reacted to the news of Herasymovych’s death. "Mik, fly high and lightly, ‘higher and higher’, as granny Helia used to say, up to your heavenly School of Liberal Arts. And to your mother Myroslava. Today is your birthday. So, I wish you this. May your sacrifice not be in vain," she wrote.

Myroslav Herasymovych (Kulyk) was born in Lutsk on 29 November 1967. He was a poet, prose writer, screenwriter and musician who founded the School of Liberal Arts named after Evening Space. He graduated from Taras Shevchenko National University's Faculty of Journalism in Kyiv.

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