Three weapons were used as a guardian of the snow-covered cemetery. The soldiers raised a Ukrainian flag from a coffin and handed over to family members. Then a trumpet, accompanied by a drum, said goodbye to the fallen soldier.
After the Ukrainian version plays craneTwo musicians from the military group slowly moved away, and mourners were sad.
“Unfortunately, we cannot zoom in their graves, but the cranes can play,” he said.
For three years The full-scale occupation of Russia It started, Ukraine experienced great losses. In an interview President Volodymyr Zelensky, published last month, said at least 46,000 Ukrainian soldiers in the war and more than 350,000 were injured, the highest figures were injured, he said.
Last year, the Russian army was attacked, Seize the territory of Ukraine regularly and the growing number of Ukrainian soldiers kills.
Then, the group of 101s of the General Staff arrives in the work of a group of separate guards.
“Every body is our most important concert, as our most important concert, because we have said goodbye to those here yet,” Pvt said. Lev Remenev, a song writer In a civilian life volunteered to fight in the army, but instead, instead, he was created in a 101st separate security team played in the piano.
The mission of 21 members of the group is to show two sides of Ukraine over three years: the number of unbearable the number of people, protecting the spirits of those in the war.
They support soldiers and civilians by playing raising concerts in schools and universities and rehabilitation centers. However, the tune they play is a version of taps to watch the fallen friends.
The musicians are often difficult to move on to the soldiers in hospitals in hospitals immediately after playing a concert for schoolchildren.
“If you couldn’t switch and continued to be grim, the children feel that,” he said, 45 years old, 45, 45 years older, 18 years. “Children are the easiest audience and it is very easy to have fun.” “Soldiers are the most severe.”
But the bodies for musicians are the hardest.
Prior to the war, there were a version of the cranes on the bodies, but mostly for the older retired soldiers, said great Holub. It was tougher In 2014When Russia occupied Donbas region Soldiers of Ukraine and soldiers were killed in war. It was more difficult since the occupation.
He reminds him the most influential body: “I will always remember a young boy from our brigade andriy,” he said. “He asked us to play at the wedding and played on the wedding in the summer of 2023. And a year later, we played at his funeral in the summer of 2024.”
He added: “I will honestly say that when I see the mother who buried his sons – it is very difficult.”
Private Remenev attended the army in 2022 and sent to the Donbas region to fight. He was instructed to join the group in July.
He still writes the songs and asked his friends to write the anthem to celebrate the victory. “It’s a very high bar”, special Remenev, informed about the expectations of the anthem, said that one still produced.
“The main thing is that the victory is actually the future, then I will write a better normal song,” he said. “People do not listen to the anthems; people love normal songs.”
Since joining the army, he played more than 200 concerts in hospitals and schools and other events. However, like others in the group, played in their funeral.
“I always first, then sadness, and then the pain of the boys and girls, then our nation dies,” he said.
Like their colleagues, it is difficult to be good in the spirit after the funeral. In concerts, you need to raise the mood. “We are not different from the whole country,” he said. “All people living in the war must make themselves to a good mood. This ability comes with experience.”
Sometimes members of the military group talking to the cemetery that gives each other a moral support. Sometimes they say, it is very sad and silent.
Pvt. 29, 29-year-old Olex Prykhodko, he has been in the group for five years, but in 2022 in 2022 after the full-scale occupation begins regularly. “It is possible to fit everything,” he said. “But it is very difficult to see the tears of relatives who lost their relatives.”
The first body was stuck in his memory. “We went to the cemetery, but there were no relatives,” he said. “This was the beginning of the war and evacuated the mother of the fallen soldier and could not return in time.” He was running and was refugee. “A woman called her,” he said. “And he said goodbye to the dead son.”
Added: “I do not have the answers to cope, but somehow I’m going.”
Each morning, in the base of the capital in Kiev, in the 9th in the morning at 9 am in the morning and plays the Trank version of the TRANS for soldiers in the base. Most days he stole music in a funeral.
In the middle of a funeral in the middle of a funeral in December, a power was cut off from Russian missile attacks in power plants. The church went to darkness and mourners, find the coffin inside the dark room and asked to go on the phones on their phones to offer a screw with fallen soldiers.
Then played a version of special Pryxodko taps.
“Relatives never say anything to us – they do not think of us.” “When someone of their loved ones die, we are the last thing in their minds, but we found the cranes,” he said. “This is ritual and important.”
Yurii Syvala Contributing report.
