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ХХ Х Конвенція СУА 127 who came from all parts of Ukraine. Often groups of 20 - 25 people were huddled in one room, coming there to take a shower and have an hour or two of rest. Once the protests tu rned more violent, our aid went to Kyiv, Kharkiv, L ’ viv, Uzhorod , and Kremenchuk to help cover the medical treatment of the in- jured. We all heard that St. Michael’s Cathedral in Kyiv opened its doors to the students who were beaten and chased by the police on the night of November 30. Branch 56 of Florida did not hesitate to send fi- nancial support to the Cathedral, whose doors remained open for the needs of the Maidan. Financial aid was also sent to the Patriarchal Cathedral of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in Kyiv which also provided assistance to the protest ers . The UNWLA helped with the treatment of Serhiy Radchenko, 25, a Maidan activist and an assis- tant of Ruslana Lyzhychko , who was severely beaten by the police on November 30 while trying to pro- tect a young woman from “B erkut . ” Suffering a traumatic brain injury, Serhiy spent twenty days in a co- ma , but after regaining consciousness , he remembered everything that had happene d to him on that night. He wrote, “I had a narrow ly escape d death twice in my life. Twice I should have died, but I lived.” Earlier in his life Serhiy had survived a car accident which took the lives of his parents. We hope that our finan- cial aid will help to speed the recovery of this young Ukrainian patriot. More recently, ou r priority shifted , and now we are trying to provide aid to the families that lost their fathers and children, and to those who will not be able to return to work because their injuries are too serious to allow full recovery. The situation in Ukraine rema ins tense as the country is on the brink of a military conflict. Ukraine is resettling the first refugees from the Crimea, primarily Crimean Tatars. It is unclear whether t hey will be able to return home; thus they will need our support , too. I want to sha re three thank - you letters received by the UNWLA from Ukraine. One of them, from Yehor Sobolev, MP, Head of the Committee on Lustration at the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, reads : “Your support was timely, crucial and inspiring! You stayed with us through the most challenging days — from the attack on Dmytro Pylypets, coordinator of the Euromaidan in Kharkiv, to the purchasing of bul- letproof vests for protection from the bullets of B erkut. Thank you!” A nother MP, member of Bat’kivshchyna Party Vasyl Pazyniak, w rote: “ Dear UNWLA! On be- half of the opposition and myself, I want to express deep gratitude to the members of the Ukrainian Na- tional Women’s League of America for the financial support you provided to our Maidan. We were touched by your generosity . The mon ey was used for the medical treatment of students, for warm clothes, and for food . Every d ay ‘our kitchen’ served food to over 2,000 people.” Finally, the letter from Dr. Mariya Furtak is worth citing in full : Dear Ukrainian National Women’s League of America , I would li ke to send you my sincere thanks for your contribution to our Revolution of Dignity! Your financial and moral support helped to save more than one life on the Maidan. W e knew that Ukrainians overseas worried about us and support ed us, and that knowledge gave us strength. Your financial aid to the Maidan allowed us to purchase warm clothes for protesters during the freezing winter days, food for the Self - defense, medi- cine for the injured and ill, and bulletproof vests and body armor for individual protection (bought on the eve of Feb- ruary 18) . The money was also used to cover the treatment of students, beaten by the police on November 30 and December 1, and to support the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Churches which hosted many of the Mai dan protesters. You know, words fail me when I want to describe the events of these three months on the Maidan, and in par- ticular the horrors of those three days between February 18 and 20. It was a real nightmare! Those medical volun- teers who were there all that time will probably never forget the faces of the innocent people killed and mutilated by the regime of Yanukovych. Many of the M aidan supporters, including doctors and nurses, were psychological ly trauma tized , especially in the last days, when the ir friends, brothers , or parents were killed or wounded there. Many of the medical volunteers were no older than 17 - 25, and for these students, interns, and young doctors those could have been the first deaths they saw in their career . These children had t o gr o w up by several years in a few days. Lives of o ur medical volunteers were at a high risk on the Maidan. As a doctor, I want to say that during the unrest on January 19 - 22 an d February 18 - 20, the police, on Yanukovych’s orders, beat and shot at the med ical sta ff who tried to do their work and help both the protesters and the police a s needed. This was done in violation of interna- tionally accepted laws to provide secure access to medical volunteers who are on duty in conflict zones. This victory over th e pack of Yanukovych's gangsters came at a high price: lives of the “Heavenly Hundred ,” and thousands who will never regain health — the best among us. This price for the right to live in a free, democratic
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