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The mother of the soldier from the Leningrad region gave an interview
“North. Realia” interviewed a resident of the Leningrad region Natalia Sokolova, whose son died in Ukraine. Alexander fought on the side of Russia for only three days, and then for several months was listed as missing. On June 20, he was buried in the city of Kirishi.
According to Natalia, in childhood, her son loved to read, was engaged in sports gymnastics and danced in the ensemble “Russian Souvenir”, and then “began to play war”: he joined the detachment that was looking for objects of the Second World War under the Kirishas, as well as in the historical and reconstruction club “Kreching”. Mother tried to ban military attributes in the house, but she did not succeed.
After the 9th grade, Alexander went to study on the nurse and worked in a covid hospital. Natalya says that her son had the opportunity not to serve due to her disability-she has been fighting oncological disease for the past 15 years-however, Alexander decided to join the army. As a result, after the college, Sokolov signed a two -year contract to get to the second special forces brigade of the State Physics and Station General Staff of the Ministry of Defense.
The last time Natalya saw her son on January 16-on the day of his 22nd anniversary. In early February, he said that he was leaving for exercises, and asked not to worry. “I found the war in Brazil [where I went on vacation]. For a long time I could not believe that this was true. February 24, I just screamed. I understood that Sasha was there, that he would be thrown out, ”the woman recalls. As a result, Natalya was able to return to Russia only in April.
Natalia, citing other military men, says that her son died in Kharkov. “Sasha was wounded in the area of the pelvis or spine, his legs were refused ... I learned from his colleagues that my son was left to cover his comrades with a grenade in his hand,” says the mother of the deceased.
The woman believes that her son was miraculously returned to Kirishi, because, according to her, Russian soldiers left their tokens by which the dead could be identified in military tickets. “I will honestly say: it saved that he served in the GRU, and the fact that they promised to pull out all their guys,” Natalya notes.
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