Today in Kharkov, on the fifth anniversary of the bloody terrorist attack at the Sports Palace, where four people died on February 22, 2015, Patriot Day initiated by activists was celebrated.

It is reported by Ukrinform.

A rally in memory gathered about a hundred people at the monument to the victims of the terrorist attack near the Sports Palace. Here are portraits of the dead - physicist Igor Tolmachev, police officer Vadim Rybalchenko, schoolboy Daniil Didyk and student Nikolai Melnichuk, around - lit candles, lamps.

Before the rally in memory of the rector of the Church of St. John the Evangelist, father Victor Marinchak, who was called activist confessor of the Kharkov Euro Maidan, he served a memorial service.

" Kharkiv residents were not afraid to enter the square after the shooting of Heavenly Hundred by Yanukovych’s regime. On this day, Russian mercenaries put a charge that claimed the lives of 4 people. Russia is the country that gave the button to these monsters.

The fact that the perpetrators were on the list for an exchange means that they did not receive punishment, as well as the fact that there is a war with Russia, "

In a free microphone, the protesters, including the deputy chairman of the Kharkov Regional State Administration, Mikhail Chernyak, spoke about the victims of the terrorist attack near the Sports Palace, the feat of the Heroes of Heavenly Hundred, the Revolution of Dignity, which defended the freedom and independence of Ukraine.

At the end of the rally, flowers were laid at the monument.