Going to pick up a body and almost died themselves: volunteers show how they were hit by a mine in Kherson region

Volunteers told how they miraculously survived a mine explosion and an attack by enemy drones while evacuating the body of a deceased in Kherson region. They say that every trip can be the last, but keeping silent about it is even worse.

The video shows the footage that leaves no one indifferent: a road covered with explosive traps, a blast, enemy drones in the sky and the fight for life.

The volunteers were on their way to the village of Veletynske to pick up the body of a young man killed by a Russian drone on July 18. On the way, the car hit a mine, and then enemy drones began to hunt them down. One of the volunteers was injured, but the team managed to survive.

"We were on our way to pick up a body, and we almost became the next to go. I got a concussion. But we survived. And this is a miracle. Because those we take away are silent forever. And with each trip there are more and more of them. Here, every trip is like the last one. It is easy not to get here. It is easy to become the one who will be taken away by others next. I am shaking not because of the pain, but because it has become the "norm," the volunteer said.

According to him, the situation in the Kherson region is getting worse every day: the occupiers are killing people right on the doorsteps of their homes, on the streets, in the middle of villages.

The volunteer called for spreading the truth about the war, because many Ukrainians still do not realize that people are dying every day in the south, and silence is also a weapon.

"The price of such evacuations is life. And I'll never get used to how terribly easy it is to lose it here," says the volunteer.

The video has already received thousands of views and comments on social media. People thank the volunteers for their courage and pray for those who risk their lives every day to save others.

Earlier, we wrote about how three volunteers were injured as a result of a Russian mine explosion in the evening of July 18. The car carrying the men, aged 30, 32 and 57, hit an explosive device.

Prior to that, Russian troops carried out a drone attack on a car carrying Chief Rabbi of Kherson and Kherson region Yosef Yitzhak Wolf and his family members.

Ірина Глухова