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Roman Ratushnyi

Roman Tarasovych Ratushnyi (Ukrainian: Роман Тарасович Ратушний, call sign: Seneca; 5 July 1997 – 9 June 2022) was a Ukrainian journalist and public activist. Ratushnyi was one of the first participants in the 2014 "Revolution of Dignity". In 2018, he founded an initiative that fights against construction in the green zone of Protasiv Yar in Kyiv. When the Russian invasion of Ukraine began in 2022, Ratushnyi joined the Armed Forces of Ukraine. He died in Sulyhivka, a village near Izium, in June 2022.

Roman Tarasovych Ratushnyi was born on July 5, 1997, in Kyiv, in the family of Taras Ratushnyi (activist of the "Save Old Kyiv" movement) and writer Svitlana Povalyaeva. In 2012, he entered the Financial and Legal College in Kyiv, where he obtained a higher legal education.

His elder brother, Vasyl Ratushnyi, a drone pilot, was killed by a drone on 27 February 2025.

At the end of 2013, Roman took part in the Euromaidan, and was attacked with other students by Berkut on the night of November 30.

After Euromaidan, for some time, as a journalist, he worked on the project "Metro to Troyeschyna" about Kyiv officials, wrote about energy, about tenders with diesel fuel at Ukrzaliznytsia.

In December 2014, he actively participated in protests for personnel changes in the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine and speeding up investigations of crimes committed in 2013-2014 on Euromaidan and in Odesa.

In 2015, he created a map of the international relations between the Russian and Ukrainian mafia, based on public articles, records, and links, which included about one thousand people involved in criminal activities.

He supported the investigation of criminal activities and crimes committed by the Russian mafia. He was one of those who influenced the founding of the State Bureau of Investigation.

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