Bohdan brought up his sons real men; he made the love sports, taught to dive in an ice hole. On days off they loved to be outside, went skating. Bohdan was raising Olena’s elder son like his own, and he became a military man too.
When the war in Donbass, Eastern Ukraine started, Olena had to worry about the two beloved men. Bohdan returned from Kosovo in April, and in May, he was in the war zone in the East Ukraine. He never told much; just the day before his death he told about heavy shelling.
The family hoped for a long time that he was taken prisoner, but the DNA test left no chance to see the Ukraine soldier again. When Olena’s elder son came back home, she entrusted him the care for the younger one, and herself she went to the front too.