On Friday, 30 October, a city farewell ceremony will be held in Lviv for servicemen Ruslan Musiienko and Roman Kryvan, who defended Ukraine from the Russian occupiers. The city authorities call on Lviv residents and visitors to join in honouring the fallen and to refrain from entertainment events at this time.
The funeral rite will begin at 11:00 at the Garrison Church of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul. At approximately 11:30, a citywide farewell ceremony will be held on Rynok Square. After this, Ruslan Musiienko will be buried at Lychakiv Cemetery, in the Field of Honourable Burials No. 87 on Pasichna Street, and Roman Kryvan at Holosko Cemetery, in Field 34-V.
Ruslan Musiienko (21.09.1986 — 12.10.2026) was born in the city of Kramatorsk, Donetsk region. He studied at the Vasyl Stus General Secondary Education Support Institution of the Kramatorsk City Council, and later qualified as a boring lathe operator at the Kramatorsk Higher Vocational School. He completed compulsory military service and worked as a boring lathe operator at the private joint-stock company “Novokramatorsk Machine-Building Plant”.
According to his family, Ruslan was kind, sincere and compassionate, always ready to support others. He was passionate about motorbikes and their repair, was interested in basketball, and loved cooking, fishing and spending time with his family. He was a participant in the Anti-Terrorist Operation. With the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion, he once again took up the defence of Ukraine, protecting its territorial integrity and sovereignty in the Donetsk, Kursk and Northern Slobozhanskyi sectors as part of the 39th Separate Unmanned Systems Battalion of the Land Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Ruslan Musiienko is survived by his father, wife, son, brother and other relatives.
Roman Kryvan (06.09.1967 — 27.10.2026) was a Lviv native. He studied at the Ivan Puliui Lyceum of the Lviv City Council, and received vocational education at one of Lviv’s vocational training institutions. He completed compulsory military service.
His family remember Roman as a kind, cheerful and sociable person who loved nature, especially the forest, treated animals with care and was interested in documentary films. In 2026 he joined the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and served in the 3rd Department of the Lviv District Territorial Recruitment and Social Support Centre. Roman Kryvan is survived by two aunts, his wife and family.