A street is to be named after Volodymyr Vakulenko, who was abducted and shot with a Makarov pistol by the Russian military in Izium (Kharkiv region). The deputy mayor of Izium, Volodymyr Matsokin, said that the issue of renaming the street after Vakulenko was to be resolved within a month.

In early December, paramedic Yulia Payevska (“Tyra”), who received the Stanislav Vincenz Award for Humanitarian Service and Contribution to Regional Development at the annual Via Carpatia international forum in Lviv, dedicated it to the murdered writer.

“Recently, the body of Volodymyr Vakulenko, killed by the occupiers, was found in Izium. He was a children’s writer… I do not think I am worthy of this award. But I accept it as a great honour and dedicate it to Volodymyr Vakulenko and all the cultural figures who were tortured and killed by the Moscow occupiers,” Payevska said.

In addition, Staryi Lev Publishing House decided to republish the writer’s book titled Daddy’s Book. The profits from the sale of the book will be donated to Volodymyr Vakulenko’s family: his parents and his minor son Vitaliy.

The writer once said that he wrote the book for his son.

And the Kharkiv Literary Museum agreed to digitise Volodymyr’s diary. The writer kept it during the Russian occupation of the village of Kapytolivka, where he lived with his son.

On 23 March, Vakulenko buried a notebook with diary entries under a cherry tree. He told the place only to his father. Six months later, the notebook, hidden in a plastic bag, was dug up.

The diary entries were handed over to the museum by his parents and the writer Viktoria Amelina.