On Monday, Ukrainian authorities have released heartbreaking final texts messages sent by an unidentified Russian soldier to his mother before he was killed in combat.
“I’m scared, we’re bombing everyone, even civilians,” the unidentified soldier wrote in Russian. “We had been told that people would welcome us here but they jump under our vehicles, not letting us pass. They call us fascists.
“Mom, it’s so hard. We were told that [civilians] would welcome us,” The soldier wrote while letting his mother know The soldier told his mother that he is no longer in Crimea doing training exercises.
When the mother asked if she could send him a package, he replied that “the only thing I want now is to hang myself”.
The messages were read by Ukrainian Ambassador Sergiy Kyslytsya at a meeting of the United Nations General Assembly on Monday and said they were sent moments before the soldier was killed. “It is unclear how the soldier died,” noted The Independent.
Ukraine's Ambassador to the UN read out text messages between a Russian soldier and his mother moments before he was killed. He read them in Russian.
"Mama, I'm in Ukraine. There is a real war raging here. I'm afraid. We are bombing all of the cities…even targeting civilians." pic.twitter.com/mLmLVLpjCO
— Vera Bergengruen (@VeraMBergen) February 28, 2022
Read the original report in The Independent.
