In Odessa, they honor the memory of the victims of the tragedy on May 2, 2014, when 48 people were killed in the riots and another 200 were injured. Most died in the House of Trade Unions during a fire.

The confrontation began after a group of armed militants gathered at Aleksandrovsky Prospekt, which stopped the march "For a United Ukraine". A fight broke out, spreading to neighboring streets.

Eyewitnesses claim that the first victim from the number of pro-Ukrainian protesters died from bullet wounds inflicted from automatic weapons. On the street of the Transfiguration, where he died, a few minutes later lay flowers. Both sides actively erected barricades from garbage containers and fences, threw opponents cobblestones, Molotov cocktails. At the same time, the separatists fired at Odessa from automatic weapons under the guise of a police cordon.