The city mayor’s office and the local shopping center refused to pay for the delivery of the body of 20-year-old serviceman of the National Guard of Ukraine Dmitry Gayan from Dnepr to his native Podolsk.

The grandmother of the deceased defender, Svetlana Gayan, who raised him from the age of two, told Dumskaya about this.

The woman recalls that on that fateful day her grandson called her on her mobile phone, but she did not have time to pick up the phone, and after a few minutes there was no connection with him. Three days later, she was informed that Dmitry had died under fire, and his body was in the Dnieper.

The grandmother notified the guy’s father, who lives with another family, and they went together to the district administration, where they were promised a coffin, a cross, a blanket and a pillow for the funeral. Then they went to the TCC with a request to help deliver the body to Podolsk, but the military commissars told the grief-stricken relatives that they had neither a car nor gasoline.

“Some major came out and said that the child was not registered with them. I say, how can he not be listed if I personally came with him to pick up your registration certificate? But, he says, we don’t have a car, and we don’t have any money. I say, look outside the window, how many cars are near the military registration and enlistment office, and all of them are brand new. I say that until you bring me the body of the child, I will not leave. In the end, my son-in-law persuaded me to leave, hired a car from a funeral agency, and we went to Dnepr and picked up Dima,” recalls Svetlana Gayan.

Coincidentally, Dmitry’s funeral took place on the second anniversary of the start of the Russian full-scale invasion. A memorial service was held in the central square, which was attended by thousands of people from surrounding villages and towns. Svetlana Gayan asked for a microphone to tell how the authorities treat the fallen Heroes, but they tried to stop her. Vice-mayor of Podolsk Lyudmila Zadorozhnaya (received the chair as a result of an alliance between Servant of the People and OPZZH – Ed.) showed with all her appearance that she did not agree with the speaker. Perhaps she was embarrassed by the fact that she came to the funeral in a mink coat, and the grief-stricken woman talked about how the military commissars did not have the money to transport the body.

“They began to tell me, they say, this is not the time for words, we are having a memorial service here. And I answered: I have a memorial service in the coffin to my left. They tried to jam the microphone, but people stood up. Then my son-in-law and I managed to get an appointment with the head of the RVA Lazarenko, where he stated that, it turns out, Mayor Albansky and the management of the TCC called me and offered help, but I refused. I say, why are you doing this? Nobody offered me anything. He called Albansky and someone from the TCC, they hesitated, were silent, and did not answer anything. As a result, we never received any compensation,” said Svetlana Gayan.

Businessmen came to the woman’s aid and covered the costs of delivering the body.

Lyudmila Zadorozhnaya

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