But as the 10-year-old younger son of Larisa and Mykola Glushko staggered in the dark, toward his mother’s room, he realized he was awake, and that his mother lay before him, crushed beneath a collapsed concrete baton.
“Something fell,” he recalled. “Mom was saying, ‘Kolya, Kolya.’ I shouted, ‘Mom, I’m alive.’”
He said he frantically scraped the dust from his face and eyes. “I saw my Mom crushed down by the ceiling. I tried to pull it away, but I couldn’t. Mom was moaning and shaking her legs. And I was shouting, ‘Mother, mother, it’s just a dream, a horrible dream.’” Mykola had a similar nightmare days earlier, and felt it might be recurring. “Then there was darkness.”
His mother died in front of him. His father was killed by the initial explosion. Hours earlier, the family had a barbecue, and Mykola senior drank one beer too many and talked passionately about enlisting. In the pitch black, his son clambered outside, the front of their comfortable family home beyond recognition, its gates torn clean away.
😥
😭
That’s brutal… No child should endure such trauma.
I fucking hate this 🙁 wish I could just take him in and fix it all. . .
I’m so sorry Ukraine, fuck ruzzia and fuck putler for doing this. Slava Ukraine Heroyam Slava
Unforgivable.
Sad, so very sad.
Just makes me hate Putin and Russia even more.
😢
Fuck russia. Also, i hope this is this kids origin story and he goes on to do great things in the name of Ukraine
When I read stuff like this, I stop feeling sorry for the ork filth as I watch them writhe and die in the mud.
War is horror, and the terrorist state of Ruzzia brought this horror to Ukraine. Fuck the orks.
And people keep asking me to explain why I hate Russians.
How can you read this and not want to send all available weapons to Ukraine?
Sickening. Just sickening.
That poor young man 🙁 I dearly hope that someone will help him work out his feelings of guilt and other trauma.
Why do we tolerate it. So sick. Please NATO grow some and let’s end this and fuck them up!!
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[Mykola first thought it was a dream](https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/27/europe/eastern-ukraine-oprhan-stories-of-loss-cmd-intl/index.html). The windows of his home blown out. The whistle of [a shell landing](https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/01/europe/ukraine-russia-advances-us-aid-weapons-intl/index.html). An explosion.
But as the 10-year-old younger son of Larisa and Mykola Glushko staggered in the dark, toward his mother’s room, he realized he was awake, and that his mother lay before him, crushed beneath a collapsed concrete baton.
“Something fell,” he recalled. “Mom was saying, ‘Kolya, Kolya.’ I shouted, ‘Mom, I’m alive.’”
He said he frantically scraped the dust from his face and eyes. “I saw my Mom crushed down by the ceiling. I tried to pull it away, but I couldn’t. Mom was moaning and shaking her legs. And I was shouting, ‘Mother, mother, it’s just a dream, a horrible dream.’” Mykola had a similar nightmare days earlier, and felt it might be recurring. “Then there was darkness.”
His mother died in front of him. His father was killed by the initial explosion. Hours earlier, the family had a barbecue, and Mykola senior drank one beer too many and talked passionately about enlisting. In the pitch black, his son clambered outside, the front of their comfortable family home beyond recognition, its gates torn clean away.
😥
😭
That’s brutal… No child should endure such trauma.
I fucking hate this 🙁 wish I could just take him in and fix it all. . .
I’m so sorry Ukraine, fuck ruzzia and fuck putler for doing this. Slava Ukraine Heroyam Slava
Unforgivable.
Sad, so very sad.
Just makes me hate Putin and Russia even more.
😢
Fuck russia. Also, i hope this is this kids origin story and he goes on to do great things in the name of Ukraine
When I read stuff like this, I stop feeling sorry for the ork filth as I watch them writhe and die in the mud.
War is horror, and the terrorist state of Ruzzia brought this horror to Ukraine. Fuck the orks.
And people keep asking me to explain why I hate Russians.
How can you read this and not want to send all available weapons to Ukraine?
Sickening. Just sickening.
That poor young man 🙁 I dearly hope that someone will help him work out his feelings of guilt and other trauma.
Why do we tolerate it. So sick. Please NATO grow some and let’s end this and fuck them up!!