Brave people always have their happiness
Just another story of one Ukrainian boy
Maxsym Lutsyk looks older and more serious, and makes fewer jokes, than
when I saw him in the days after Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Last week
he made a difficult journey out of the Donbas front line, using back
roads at night to avoid artillery fire, to pick up supplies for his unit
and to tell me what it has been like fighting the Russians. For three
weeks, Maxsym and his comrades had fought to keep control of a position
they called Serber, after a small dog they had adopted. It was in a
smashed-up former factory in Rubizhne, a town that eventually fell to
the Russians.
"We can't meet our wives, our girlfriends, our children. We can't do our
business, like we were doing before the invasion. But everyone
understands that we have a more important mission now. And we will
continue doing business, growing up our children. We will kiss our wives
and girlfriends many times, but after the war".
"As long as it's necessary to hold, we are ready to freeze in trenches,
to lose our hearing. We are ready even to die there, but we will win as
much time as it's necessary for the entire civilized world to beat
Russia in non-military ways." — says Maxsym, who is 19 years old now.
Maxsym the student has turned into a front-line soldier, engaged he
believes in the mission of his life.
"We are fighting for the freedom of the entire world, the entire
civilised world and if anyone thinks it is a Ukrainian-Russian war, it
isn't. It is the war of the light and the darkness between the Russia
and the entire world."
Information is taken from the BBC News article