The russian occupiers shot up the translator of Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas

On 5 March 2022, in Bucha City of Kyiv Region, the russian occupiers shot up a teacher of Church Slavonic and Greek, historian and translator Oleksandr Kysliuk. This was announced by Archbishop Eustratius (Zorya) and the Academic Church of the Holy Apostle and Evangelist John the Beloved on their Facebook pages.

The archbishop wrote: «On 5 March, my Greek teacher, Oleksandr Kysliuk, was killed in Bucha. A genius polyglot (it is difficult to say exactly how many languages he knew, both classical and modern) and a person of difficult life. I forever remembered his “this is an aorist!” with an intonation as if talking about a gifted diamond. Dormit In Pace, Oleksandr Ivanovych, eternal memory and Lord bless your soul!».

Oleksandr Kysliuk was a senior lecturer at the Department of Theory and History of State and Law of the Institute of Political Science and Law of Drahomanov National Pedagogical University.

During the last twenty years of teaching and translation he has written a lot of scientific articles and translated many classical works from ancient and modern foreign languages, such as ancient Greek, Latin, Church Slavonic, English, French and German, had publications on the history of the Cossacks based on Latin sources.

The historian translated «Politics» by Aristotle, «Anabasis» by Xenophon, «Annals» by Tacitus, «St. Justinian’s Theological Works», the Complete Church Slavonic Dictionary, and the works of Justinian and Thomas Aquinas into Ukrainian.

We would like to remind you that at least 35 attacks on journalists in Ukraine have been documented since the beginning of russia’s full-out war. In particular the journalist Viktor Dudar was killed during hostilities near Mykolaiv, and also the American Brent Reno, the video journalist, the former author of The New York Times, died in the shelling. Fox News cameraman, Pierre Zakshevskiy, and Ukrainian journalist, Oleksandra Kuvshynova, were also killed in the shelling near Kyiv.

In addition, as previously reported, journalist Oleh Baturyn has disappeared in Kherson Region.