"Tattoo, take away": a story about how a father rescued the Seaman's son in occupation (video)

After the start of a full -scale war, the family received a plus from the Ukrainian - as a sign alive. One day a long -awaited call came, but instead of encouraging news, "Dad, take me away. " Dmitry from Berdyansk, where he began his service in the Maritime Protection Division. He was a motorist on a boat, where he met a full -scale war on February 24, 2022. In the morning, the man, along with his brothers, arranged positions on Berdyansk braid, and in the evening he was taken by bus to Mariupol.

In combat positions there he received a contusion. "I lost consciousness. When I came to my senses, if I did not understand where I was. When I went to look for myself, I didn't even know where to go to seek which side, where my own, where the enemy was. Try somewhere to go "on the citizen", - the border guard remembered. He did not know Mariupol at all, but decided to try to leave the surrounded city on foot, in Berdyansk.

"When you walk in the yard, and there in each yard there are 5-10 graves, somehow so… or you go so-" Nova Poshta ", and on it the inscription" Morg "and already smell you feel that,"-said Dmitry. He only had a passport with him. In some room, the Ukrainian found civilian clothes and glasses because he has vision problems. In a hostile post thanks to "masquerade" missed. "It was important for them not to say that you were going there to Zaporozhye or Kiev.

Because people were packed immediately, somewhere they were imported," the sailor said. Already 40 kilometers, near Mangush village, he met a new checkpoint. It was impossible to avoid filtration here, but civilian clothing "saved" again. From Mariupol people were not allowed to Berdyansk, only in the direction of Russia. For this purpose there were buses that were taken to Crimea, Rostov-on-Don and Taganrog. "I was missed for the next 8 hours I walked to my hometown, Berdyansk," Dmitry explained.

Already on the approach to Berdyansk, he asked for a passerby and made one call - his father. Within 20 minutes, the native sailors were taken away in the outskirts of the city. His father Yuri remembered the day when he rang the phone. Called from an unknown number. The winner was a familiar voice: "Dad, take me. " Hearing, the man ran "what he was", because he knew that his son should be in Mariupol and was very worried.

In October 2023, Yuri also joined the session of the SSSU and became a son of a son. Now they serve in one part. In Berdyansk, a wife was waiting for Dmitry, who refused to leave even despite the threat of occupation before his return. "I said that here the 100-kilometer zone around us, we would not come out from here. I told her, insisted that she did not stay there in any case," the sailor said. Returning, he immediately left with his wife from Berdyansk.

A few months later, the hometown was left by parents. In memory of the occupied Mariupol, Dmitry remained terrible memories and a couple of sneakers, in which he overcame 70 kilometers in two days. Now the sneakers are stored at home with the border guard. He also protects Chevron with the inscription "Berdyansk", which never removes from his shoulder. The Ukrainian says that after his release Berdyansk will first go to the sea. Regardless of whether it will be summer or winter.

Once a sailor dreamed of walking with his baby in a trolley with a waterfront near his native sea. Until this dream was destined to come true, but he lives and fights for his young child. Yuri assured that the inhabitants of Berdyansk did not abandon Ukraine and live hope for de -occupation. We will remind, senior sergeant Andrey Panchoha told how he learned to shoot with MSRC and what is the secret of blows just in the target.