The monument honors #OleksandrMatsievskiy, who was posthumously awarded a medal after a widely shared video showed him being shot dead by his Russian captors. A sniper with a unit from the region of #Chernihiv, he can be seen saying "#SlavaUkraini," before slumping to the ground. While looking at Oleksandr's award, his mother said he "would have taken all of them with him if he had a grenade."