Russia.- The war between Russia and Ukraine has left sadness in many people who have lost their loved ones, as is the case of a Russian mother, whose 21-year-old son he died during the first day of the invasion, however they refuse to hand over his body so as not to cause panic.
A call on the night of February 23 was the last Lyudmila had from Maxim, her son before he was sent with his unit to the invasion of Ukraine and was killed in battle on the first day of the attack, even though they were told it was a military exercise on the border
Now, Lyudmila and her family live the pain of not even having a body to bury to cry on her grave, now they only have a hole left on the ground of the cemetery in Ozerny, a town of 1,500 inhabitants in the Saratov region of Russia. .
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“They have said that the body will not be handed over until everything is over, so as not to cause panic,” revealed his mother, Lyudmila.
He stated that he has no information about where the young soldier died or under what circumstances it happened, he only received a call on his son’s birthday, February 25.
“Around 2:00 p.m. a soldier called and told me: his son was killed in action on the 24th. He sent his obituary through WhatsApp. No one else explained anything,” lamented the mother of the family to the Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta, who stated that no one has information about her son and that is, she has not obtained information from the military registration and enlistment office, nor from the prosecutor’s office, so that “the wall is impenetrable”.
“There’s no end in sight, we can’t say goodbye, we can’t bury him or cry over his grave“said the woman, who said she spoke to her son a day before he died, whose last words before hanging up her call were” I’ll call you when I can “, which could not be possible.
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After his death, Lyudmila has tried to contact various units, services and government agencies to be able to find her son’s body and deliver it to her, however she has not obtained anything, since “they are keeping silent until the last moment” .
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