Major Serhiy Laziuk takes a deep breath at the nursery’s entrance, bracing himself for what he must do.

He’s done this countless times before, but putting his hand on the gate, he replays the words he’s prepared in his mind before taking a step forward.

Moments later, the silence is broken by a mother’s screams.

The woman, her face gaunt with grief, collapses on to a nearby bench as a colleague tries to comfort her. Standing beside them is Major Laziuk. One hand is on the mother’s shoulder. In the other, a letter with the news that her son, previously missing at the front, is dead.

Major Serhiy Laziuk tries to comfort a mother who has just received his grim news

Hours earlier, he had taken another deep breath as he stood outside the home of another mother and buzzed the intercom. “Hello?” the woman says in a strangled voice, before quietly letting Major Laziuk in. This time, there was no screaming, just a numb silence at the news her son had been killed in a Russian drone strike.

This is Major Laziuk’s grim task: to deliver death notices to families across Lviv. Sometimes there are two, or even three, a day. Colleagues say he has the worst job in the army. He rarely gets time off because colleagues are reluctant to cover for him.

Major Laziuk always delivers his bad news face to face.

“The hardest part is when people still have hope,” he tells The Telegraph. “They think maybe there’s been a mistake.”

Employed by the army recruitment office, his unit doesn’t just send reluctant young men off to fight but it also brings them back to the morgue.

Read more: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/10/23/man-with-worst-job-in-ukraine/





by TheTelegraph

36 comments

  2. Should those private moments of grief and sorrow really be filmed and posted?

  3. This man is doing very important but very difficult work. I have no doubt that he will be haunted by these emotions and memories the rest of his life. There will be long term trauma here. Fuck Putin.

  4. What a sobering job. Well done my friend. That’s a difficult job.

  7. Damn…Thoughts and prayers my.man.. take it a day at a time

  9. One can only have respect and admiration for what he does and what he experiences. I probably couldn’t handle it. None of this would be necessary if that scum terrorist state Russia would just get the hell out of Ukraine. Hope Russla

  13. Indeed the worst job, Kudos to Major Laziuk.

    I could never do that especialyl not daily.

  14. In Croatia, young historian has a podcast where my fellow countrymen come and talk about Croatian War of Independence (1991-1995).

    Guys who come are usually soldiers or officers who fought in that war.

    Officers say that this was probably worst job – coming home to parents, wives or children of their fallen comrades.

    I remember one podcast where guest told that parents of a young guy who was if I remember correctly 18yo, begged that officer that he lets their son to fight with him. He unfortunately died in fighting and when officer came to their parents to tell them that their son was killed, it was brutal.

    They blamed him for their son’s death. Guy was shattered.

    So I honestly belive that this is probaby the worst job there is. Seing all those families tear appart, children cry for their fathers, wives cry for their husbands, parents cry for their children.

    That major is hell of a guy!

  16. I lost my grandpa this year, and it was so much suffering for everyone in the family since he was dearly loved.

    His death however ended up being what he needed after a slow but steady degradation of his body and mind these last few years.

    I can’t imagine how awfull it must be for these families to learn that a young, in a good health, children, partner, cousin, friend have died like that. And the volumes Ukraine is suffering from it because of the spite of an old ghoul in the Kremlin that decided young people had to be slaughtered.

    This is such a fucking waste, I have always been an atheist but I find myself hoping that religious people are right and that Putin and his cronies will suffer for a long long while someday.

  17. Hard to watch video all around. But we need to take care of that man. I hope it’s a rotating job, so once in a while you get to do something else.

  22. Never forget: This is all because of Putin and those who support him. Every death. Every permanent injury. Every destroyed house. Every destroyed family.

  23. This suck. All because putin wants land and goods. Ukraine was just liven their life. Just bull. Go Ukraine 🇺🇦 💪

  24. Someone has to do that job with dignity and respect, and this man stepped up. I hope he finds peace after the war.

  26. I did this once for a soldier fallen in a peacetime accident. It was terrible to do. The family was gracious. Like the Major, I maintained contact with the family for quite a while. It is such an absolutely important job to do and to do with compassion. The family will remember how they were treated for the rest of their lives. They will always remember the name of the soldier who brought them the news and how he stood by them.

  27. How do the families now get a night’s sleep? How does he even get a restful night’s sleep? It’s absolutely awful. Fuck putin.

  28. I must say this has completely slipped my mind…it’s heartbreaking on so many levels

  29. The hardest work.

    Fuck Putin. Fuck Russia. Fuck the mindless Orcs that took this brave soldier away from his family who was defending them.

  30. And then, you have to imagine that the wife has to then take on the role of mother and explain to her children that their dad will never come back.

    Fuck Russia

  31. I’ve watched many videos on this sub but there’s no fucking way I’m watching this.

  32. I think the ones with the worst job would be the ones who are on the front lines getting blown up and/or killed.

    Just saying.

  33. Meanwhile the Russians couldn’t give a shit about their sons rotting in Ukraine

  34. Brutal. Fuck russia
    Slava Ukraine 🇺🇦 ✌️🇬🇧

  36. Another unsung hero. You must either be a sociopath to do this or be the bearer of a lifetime burden that will take its toll on his mental health!

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