Now 15-year-old Andrei is in a Lviv hospital with numerous injuries.

A 15-year-old boy miraculously survived during an attempt to leave Chernihiv region / screenshot

The occupiers allowed several cars to leave the occupied village in the Chernihiv region on a mined road. When the car exploded, 15-year-old Andrei managed to survive, and his mother was dying before his eyes.

About how it was, he told TSN.

Anatoly, the guy’s father, took his wife and son to a village 15 kilometers from Chernigov, when the invaders reached the city, and he himself went to the defense. A few days later, the occupier reached the peaceful Ivanovka.

According to a Chernihiv resident, the invaders first fired at his yard, and then they came to the cellar where his wife and son were hiding.

“The Russians destroyed my house. They shot the doors with machine guns,” he says. 

The guy himself recalls: in a conversation, the invaders said that they had come to this land to free the inhabitants from the Nazis and Bandera.

“Well, what do you say to them when six or more barrels of machine guns are pointed at you, there is a tank in your yard?” he says. 

In the end, the military allowed Anatoly’s family and another family to leave the captured village. They allowed it because they knew that the road was mined.

Of the passengers in the car – 3 adults and 3 children – only children survived the explosion. 15-year-old Andrei saw with his own eyes how his mother was dying.

“Something on the track was crushed with hay. I saw a yellow flash before my eyes, a ringing in my ears. Then I remember how I woke up on the road, saw my mother burning. She was still alive then. And then I heard artillery shots,” – he says.

Andrei managed to crawl to the nearest yard, the villagers called an ambulance. Now the guy with numerous injuries (fractures of both legs, collarbone, skull trauma, hearing damage) is in a Lviv hospital. 

“He’s a fighter, he doesn’t make noise, he doesn’t cry. Our losses are not in vain. This is the price we have to pay for our independence,” his father says.

The guy’s mother still cannot be buried because of the constant shelling.

(C)UNIAN 2022