Ivan Khomenko is a news writer for UNITED24 Media. He covers key developments in the war, providing readers with sharp, informed analysis from the front lines and beyond.
They weren’t fighters—just schoolboys, until the war turned them into something else. Under Russian occupation in Berdyansk, Tihran Ohannisian and Mykyta Khanhanov chose one final act of resistance. It cost them their lives. Two years on, their story stands as a stark symbol of youth defiance—and of how war leaves no one untouched.