March 13, 2025, 2:23 p.m.
(Photo: Mayor of Venice Luigi Bruniaro)
The Mayor of Venice, Luigi Bruniaro, has awarded Ukrainian soldier Yanis Tereshchenko from Odesa for saving a man who had been stabbed.
The Italian official announced this on his social media.
Impressed by the courage of the Odesa resident, the mayor of Venice personally met with him and presented him with gratitude and symbolic gifts - a book about Marco Polo, a plaque with a Venetian lion and tickets to the Museum of Natural History.
"My personal gratitude and the gratitude of the whole of Venice for this great gesture of humanity, courage and altruism to Janis, the entire Ukrainian people, and friends in Odesa. We proclaim our solidarity for a lasting peace that guarantees their protection," Luigi Bruniaro wrote.
According to Corriere della Sera, the incident occurred after a dispute between two young men, one of whom stabbed the other. The wounded man walked a few meters, then fainted and fell, losing a lot of blood.
It was at this moment that Yanis Tereshchenko, a Ukrainian soldier on leave, happened to be nearby. Thanks to his first aid skills and the first aid kit he always carries with him, the man was able to quickly stop the bleeding and stabilize the victim's condition until an ambulance arrived. The attacker fled the scene, and the wounded man was immediately hospitalized.
Yanis Tereshchenko noted that since the beginning of his service he has always carried a first aid kit with him, because you never know when you might need it.
Intent has already written about how Odesa Mayor Hennadiy Trukhanov awarded Major Denys Didychuk with the Odesa Mayor's Honorary Award "For the Defense of Odesa".
Meanwhile, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy presented the country's highest award, the Order of the Golden Star, to the mother of the fallen junior sergeant of the 79th separate air assault brigade in Mykolaiv, Dmytro Shkurnov. The soldier received the award posthumously
Андрій Колісніченко