Cara comunità Reddit!!! oggi vorrei dimostrarvi ancora una volta il valore della nostra indipendenza. Questi sono due fratelli uccisi nella guerra con la Russia. Andrii nell’estate del 2022, Bogdan la scorsa settimana.

Therefore. I’ll tell you a story, of which there are hundreds in Ukraine. We met Lyudmila when we were raising funds for one of Mavic drone. She called us and gives for about 50 thousand hryvnias to complete the collection, because the Mavic was for a teacher who used to teach her son. Then we met in person because she was handing over the cash. We hadn’t met before and I couldn’t understand how such a modest woman could have such money to donate. As I later realised, Liudmyla had a son, Andrii, who were killed on the war in the summer of 2022. He died as a hero at the age of 21 (he was even awarded the title of Hero of Ukraine posthumously). The payments that Lyudmyla received from the state, after Andrii’s death were fully spent on supporting the military. She bought cars for the unit where her son used to serve, bought medicines for those who applied or simply supported the fundraiser of people she knew.
Her motto was “let as many guys as possible come home”. I can’t even imagine how many people she helped.
In addition to Andrii, Liudmyla has a daughter, two schoolchildren and a son, Bohdan. Liudmyla’s first husband died leaving her with two children. Her second husband passed away leaving behind three more children, and Lyudmyla never married again, raising her 5 children on her own. I don’t know what her methods of education are, but I probably need her advice, because her children are well-mannered, sensitive and patriots of our country. All of them.
So, in December 2023, Liudmyla’s second son, Bohdan, went to war, he was 19 years old. According to the laws of Ukraine, he could never have been mobilised, as he had lost a relative in the war (his brother Andrii) and was under the age of compulsory mobilisation. Despite his mother’s persuasion, Bohdan enlisted in the 3rd Assault Brigade. Within six months he was wounded twice, but his mother’s words and tears had no effect and after treatment he returned to combat missions. Bohdan was killed by an enemy shell and returned home in a closed coffin, which was not even opened.
Yesterday, we went to see Bohdan off to his final resting place and express our condolences to his family. As always, I planned to take some photos to share my feelings with you. But the funeral of a 19-year-old boy who died in the war is just an indescribable horror and I didn’t take any pictures. We cried throughout the ceremony, his mother apparently did not recognise anyone, she was held under her arms all the time so that she would not fall. Two sons who are still schoolchildren were torn between the need to support their mother and sister and to cope with their own grief at the loss of their brother. Bohdan’s classmates, with whom he had graduated from school a year ago, came to bury him. First, the body were brought to home, where all said goodbye in the yard, then the coffin was taken to church and then to the cemetery. We were crying all the time, and when we thought we had no more tears left, we went to the cemetery where Bohdan’s brother Andriy was already lying. I can’t describe in words what a feeling of hopelessness and grief it is when you see the graves of your young brothers next to each other. Throughout the funeral, I was thinking about who I felt more sorry for, Andriy and Bohdan, who were killed in the war and never saw life, never started a family, never did thousands of nice things, or their mother, who put her soul into her sons who was killed by the russians.

Вічная памʼять!

This one hits hard. I’m 36, and I don’t feel old, but that looks like a boy to me. That’s still someone growing up. Sorry for your loss. May russia pay and be shamed for the next decades.

Rest in Peace

All my respect for their sacrifice … Condolences to family and friends. May their memory live on eternal!