Today, on 17 April, a ceremony was held near the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine to honour the memory of Oleh Barna, a Member of Parliament of the VIII convocation, Senior Sergeant of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, who died in 2023 in Donetsk Oblast, a day before his 56th birthday.
The ceremony was attended by First Deputy Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Oleksandr Korniienko, Deputy Chairman Olena Kondratiuk, MPs of Ukraine, Chief of Staff of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Vyacheslav Shtuchnyi, and the staff of the Secretariat.
During the ceremony, participants recalled the combat and life path of Oleh Barna, a teacher, active participant in the Ukrainian Maidans, a volunteer of the 2014 war and a soldier who did not hesitate to return to the front when the full-scale invasion began. His words were: «We are fighting so that children in Ukraine do not see the disaster brought by the "russian world".»
The attendees paid tribute to the Hero with a minute of silence and laid flowers at the Memorial Plaque to the fallen MPs and employees of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine.