During the shooting in Kyiv on April 18, musician of the rock band Druhe Sontse Ihor Savchenko was killed.
This was reported by a colleague in the band, Maryna Yurevych, on Facebook.
"Ihor Savchenko was killed during the terrorist attack. My friend, my faithful comrade, musician of our band Druhe Sontse. I still can't believe it. That I will never hear you again, Ihor, that I will call, and there is silence," the message says.
Yurevych shared that she had been friends with Ihor since 2010, and they had been through a lot together. She described him as a true rocker and friend.
"Raps, concerts, festivals, conversations, creative searches, plans, meetings, birthdays, your unforgettable steaks, how many things were there. And how are we now without you? … And you lived with music, burned, felt that you were real when you played," she continued.
The husband is survived by his wife and daughter.
The band Druhe Sontse was created in the fall of 2009, its former name was Feromon. The author of the idea is Maryna Yurevych, the arrangements are created in co-authorship by all members of the band. The musicians positioned themselves as a rock band with a diverse repertoire and described the sound as a combination of "hard overdrive and distortion" with a flute and violin.
As Ukrainian News Agency earlier reported, on April 20 it became known that a man wounded during a shooting in the Holosiivskyi district of Kyiv died in the hospital. The number of people killed in the incident has increased to seven.
On April 18, a man opened fire in the Holosiivskyi district of Kyiv, then locked himself in a supermarket with hostages. After 40 minutes of negotiations, special forces stormed the building and killed the attacker.
According to police, the shooter was a 58-year-old native of Moscow, who had served in the Armed Forces of Ukraine since 1992, retired in 2005, and had lived in Bakhmut since 2017.
The head of the Department of the Patrol Police of Ukraine, Yevhen Zhukov, submitted a report for dismissal after the shooting in Kyiv on April 18.
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