Dear Reddit community!!! today I would like to show you once again the value of our independence. These are two brothers who were killed in the war with Russia. Andrii in the summer of 2022, Bogdan last week.

by CF_Siveryany

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  1. 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.

  2. Once again, I want to say thank you for being with us in these times, thank you for supporting us both in word and deed. Your help is what allows us to continue the fight and believe in victory. Ukraine’s losses are enormous, not only military but also civilians – children, women, the elderly, but if we surrender, we will lose our freedom and then our lives, so we continue to fight and mourn our losses. Thank you for being with us.

  5. 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.

  6. So much sufferings and deaths, all because of one human scum in Kremlin.

    If the world doesn’t punish PutinZ himself, then we’d have no right to call ourselves human.

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

  10. Вічна памʼять. 

    So tragic that young men die thanks to that old huilo. 

  11. Reading what she has done and through what she was going for left me speachless.

    Such heroism and devoution to the country is extreamly rare and I have read for such cases only in WW2.

    Is there anyway to support her despite knowing that nothing can ease her pain and “bleeding heart” from the lost of her two sons.

  13. I have no words. Just sadness. Slava Ukraini!

    Fuck Russia!

  14. Thank you for including the picture of the mourners at the grave. That family, that pocket of friends and relatives, gave those soldiers their strength. Their home gave them the strength.

    The pain is visible and I curse the distance. I hope those who have lost so much can understand just a small bit they are not alone nor will they be alone.

    Russian evil in Ukraine must end. Leaders: do not make me ashamed of my trust.

  16. So many brave heroes who lost their lives. May their souls find peace and their people get their country back.

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