Levko Lukyanenko: “Everything comes from love for the native land”

Levko Lukyanenko is the hero of the Bravo program. He talks about his life, civic position and political activities.

Levko Lukyanenko was born on August 24, 1928. Ukrainian politician and public figure, diplomat, writer, lawyer and Soviet dissident, participant of the national liberation movement. Hero of Ukraine.

For his beliefs in Ukraine's separation from the Soviet Union and its independence, he was sent to death row as a “dangerous recidivist” and sentenced to the highest form of punishment - execution. Later, the execution was commuted to 15 years in prison. In total, he spent 25 years in prison and exile.

Levko Lukyanenko died on July 7, 2018.

Interviewees: political and public figures Petro Kononenko, Bohdan Horyn, Vasyl Ovsiienko, Viktor Shyshkin, the first president of Ukraine Leonid Kravchuk and his wife Nadiia Lukianenko.

The program is hosted by Tetiana Kovalchuk. Materials from Levko Lukyanenko's own archive and footage from the films The Road to Sich and Cherry Nights are used.