"Eyes become wet, and words are difficult": why the sous chef became a stormtrooper

He lived in Kyiv and did what he loved – feeding people.

During the conversation, Yuri's eyes From time to time, the eyes become wet, so words are difficult.

Until February 24, 2022, he lived in Kyiv and did his favorite He fed people. He was a professional chef, on the eve of the invasion, he – sous-chef of a large Kyiv restaurant, served ambassadors and diplomatic Delegation.

"In the morning, there were explosions, rockets were flying, several days with children and My wife was hiding from the shelling in the basement. How did it become possible to withdraw family to a safe place, then sent his relatives abroad, and he himself went to the Armed Forces Forces. On March 5, he was already in uniform. But then it became big for the family surprise: they didn't know what I was going to do."

"I decided as a matter of principle that I would not be a cook in the army. After What I saw after the full-scale invasion, I decided for myself - I had to contribute to the destruction of the enemy. I decided to go to the "front line". The 15th Separate Mountain Assault Brigade was hit battalion, became a rifleman."

"What struck me? They're not people, they're not even animals. Unworthy, cunning, insidious. We, Ukrainians, have always been considered subhuman. Destroyed Holodomor. My grandmother told me how grain was exported and people were starving Died. And when I served in the conscripts, back in the Soviet Union, I saw how contemptuous they were Ukrainians are treated. It looks like they have some kind of internal complexes."

Yakovlivka, Bilohorivka, Volodymyrivka, Vodyane.

He received severe contusions near Vodiane, then he was hospitalized and detached "Limited fitness". That's how I got to the CCC

"At the front, my friends and family always supported me. Feeling Shoulder. It is easier to tolerate around friends. I made a lot of friends there. And here are the Friends who were in civilian life somehow faded into the background, especially those who did not go through the war, hid somewhere."

"Now it is very difficult and it's hurtful to hear sometimes from adult civilian men questions like "Oh why are you not there, but you are going to Bakhmut", and this despite the fact that next to me is here the guys who went through the front and the same Bakhmut are serving, and now they are doing everything here to be useful to Ukraine."

"You know, in the army There are many specialties, not all of them become stormtroopers.
It is worth remembering that this war concerns every real one husband, we have no right to carry children on our shoulders.
And we will win, we will definitely win – we have the spirit Freedom. We will never give up our land!"

Public Relations Service of the Transcarpathian OTCC and SP.

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