On February 23, on the eve of the anniversary of the beginning of the full-scale russian invasion, the researchers of the Museum “Jewish Memory and Holocaust in Ukraine” together with the students of the University of Customs Affairs, who are currently undergoing museum practice with us, visited the Holodomor Resistance Museum. An exhibition of one exhibit from the private collection of historian and volunteer Yurii Fanygin was opened there today.

This is the diary of the russian occupier Serhii P., a junior officer of the airborne forces of the russian federation, who at the end of August 2022, that is, on the eve of the Independence Day of Ukraine, as part of the guard brigade, came to the Kherson region for the rotation of the occupation troops. Having made his way from Kubinka near Moscow, Voronezh and Crimea, he took part in the capture of Ukrainian villages in the Kherson region, noting in detail what he saw in his diary. Ultimately, the path of the russian occupier ended in Visokopyla, where in early September 2022, during the liberation of the village by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, this diary was found. The exact fate of the russian invader is unknown, but there is a very high probability that he added to the official statistics of the General Staff of Ukraine regarding the number of liquidated invaders.

We sincerely thank our colleagues from the Holodomor Resistance Museum for the invitation and hospitality, and we will be glad to continue our cooperation.