I really want to write about one person. He is our instructor at the training center. Of course, I can’t even mention his name, not even in a positive way. But in the future, after victory, I hope that everything will be fine and I will be able to write about who he is. The country should know its heroes.
For now, I will call him by the fictional positive name Sun. Sun volunteered from the first days of the war. He fought on the front lines for more than two years (he said where, but to be honest, I don’t remember).
He didn’t tell us directly about how things were for him there. But he periodically recounted various situations and incidents when he gave us lectures on duties, equipment, etc.
From what I heard, I understood that he had gone through hell. But, as I saw, watching him, he remained human. I saw him argue with other instructors more than once about taking better care of us. For example, he wanted us to be given extra blankets so that we would be warmer at night (yes, it is cold outside at night here, and blankets are very useful). Or he wanted us to be given covers for our shovels. Or there was a case when we were given equipment and the instructor who gave it to us said to use what we had, but San arranged for it to be replaced. And in general, there were many moments every day when it was clear that he cared about us.
I want to emphasize right away, so that later in the comments no one writes that I am slandering the entire Armed Forces of Ukraine, etc., that I am writing about one specific person, not the entire Armed Forces of Ukraine.
When he gave us a lecture on combating Russian propaganda, he said that we have similar propaganda, which tells us that everything is fine. He said that after listening to it, the question arises: why haven’t we won yet? In other words, he didn’t just read the lecture material, but gave a more honest account of the situation.
In short, San is a person who has gone through hell but remained human. I don’t know how that happened. Maybe someday there will be an opportunity and a suitable situation to ask him about it.
Today he talked about the equipment needed at ground zero. It was clear that he knows a lot about equipment. For each piece of equipment, he had a story from his own experience about where it is needed and why. At the end, he said the following: what the state gives you is the bare minimum needed to fight. Everything else must be purchased with your own money. He strongly advised not to wait for the state to provide everything, because it will not. He added that this equipment is expensive, but strongly advised not to skimp on it. Because our health, and often our lives, depend on it.
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