Stepan Chubenko

Chubenko studied at the Kramatorskoy Secondary School Number 12, and was fond of sports. At first he was engaged in the Greco-Roman wrestling, then he was fond of football, defended the gates of the youth team "Avangard" from Kramatorsk, and Donetsk, visited his matches in Donetsk, traveled with the team to other cities of Ukraine. With friends organized a team of KVK, which traveled to perform in different cities of Ukraine. Also, with friends, Stepan took care of a children's home in Kramatorsk. They often visited children, brought them toys, clothes, books, delicacies. Stepan spoke to his girlfriend, that when they marry, they give birth to one child and two more to adopt.

With the onset of pro-Russian appearances in Ukraine in 2014, Stepan and his friends took part in rallies in support of the integrity of Ukraine, which was held in Kramatorsk. The boys wore water, products, and hygiene products for Ukrainian soldiers who arrived in the city. During the bombing, he helped go downstairs to the elderly, carrying water to him when the city was cut off from water supply. Risking his life, Stepan took out the Donetsk flag from the city square.

In April 2014, when Russian militants seized the city, their mother drove Stepan to her parents in Russia, but a month later he returned, declaring that he did not want to hide "like a rat" in times difficult for the country.

In June 2014 Stepan went to a friend in Kiev. On June 23, he took a train in the capital to return home. He traveled through Donetsk where he was detained by militants from the Kerch battalion, according to one version, for a yellow-blue ribbon on a backpack, and according to Igor Stokoz, a representative of the Donetsk regional military-civilian administration, because he had entered into a dispute with defending the position of a single indivisible country. The bandits began to beat the juvenile boyfriend in Donetsk. Then they were taken to Horbachev-Mikhailovka, where after terrible torture, they were shot.

Immediately after the disappearance of his son, his mother traveled to Donetsk on his wanted list. She was able to find out that the boy was shot and talked with the leader of the republic Alexander Zakharchenko, who promised her to find the body of his son and his killers. At the end of September 2014, the mother came to the news that the body was found. Exhumation was tucked on October 3, during which, the mother recognized her son. She succeeded in getting him sent to Kramatorsk. On November 8, 2014, Stepan Chubenko was buried in his home town.

The killers of a minor patriotic guy were three militants from the Kerch battalion - 1969, 1971 and 1984 years of birth. Two of them - residents of Donetsk, one - from Makeevka. "The authorities of the DPR" reported that the killers of her son were caught, but two of them managed to escape to the occupied Crimea.

In honor of Stepan Chubenko, a football tournament was held in Kramatorsk twice, in 2015 and 2016.

On May 8, 2016 the Order of "National Hero of Ukraine" were posthumously given to his parents.