Mykhailo Zhyznevskyi

Mіkhaіl Mikhaylavich Zhyznyewski (Belarusian: Міхаіл Міхайлавіч Жызнеўскі; 26 January 1988 – 22 January 2014), also known as Mykhailo Mykhailovych Zhyznevskyi (Ukrainian: Михайло Михайлович Жизневський), was a Belarusian Euromaidan activist, journalist, and a member of UNA-UNSO.

He died in a confrontation on Hrushevsky Street in Kyiv, Ukraine in January 2014, during the Euromaidan protests.

He made medieval armor in the Knights' Club, practiced karate and attended the Orthodox Church.

[4] He did not communicate with his family in Belarus for a long time, but in the last year of his life he resumed contacts with his parents.

He suggested that his son had been killed by a sniper, but believed that neither the Ukrainian nor the Belarusian authorities would conduct an objective investigation.

In 2020, the Rada of the Belarusian Democratic Republic posthumously awarded Mikhail Zhyzneuski with the Medal of the Order of the Pahonia.