"I promised the dead to take them home". Oleksiy Yukov, Serhii Hnezdilov / ++ podcast

"There were parts of people's bodies torn apart. And some men, women, and minors trampled on them. And everyone dragged the copper, put it in bags," Oleksiy recalls the picture he saw at the place where the Ukrainian helicopter fell, shot down by Russian terrorists. He and his group went there to collect the bodies of the Armed Forces soldiers. Shortly after that operation, the searcher was captured by the terrorists of Girkin and almost killed. "I was just lucky," says Oleksii.
How did he become a searcher? Where and how does his group have to work? How does he feel about the dead? How did his group help to return the bodies of those killed in Olenivka? And how is communication with the Russians, who are looking for the bodies of their relatives?
And also about the capture of Girkin's terrorists, the culture of burials and who finances the searches for the dead.
Watch and listen to the "++ podcast" - a conversation between serviceman Serhii Hnezdilov and searcher Oleksiy Yukov.
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