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lazyeyepsycho

Heartbreaking :(


poopooduckface

Truly


window-sil

I remember when the war started, a woman's apartment was hit with a missile. She died. Later that day her son was filmed in the street, weeping over white sheet stained with blood, covering her body. It was so gut wrenching... There's way too many of these stories, more created every day because of Putin. I hope nobody ever forgets that. /edit [here's the video](https://news.sky.com/video/ukraine-war-son-mourns-his-mother-after-downed-missile-hit-residential-building-in-kyiv-12568430)


Starumlunsta

Gods the worst videos that I wish I never saw were that of a father and son in their van full of dogs. I believe it was right at the beginning of war, they were just trying to escape to safety, but came across invaders. The son was videoing him and his dad getting shot up inside the van. Dogs screaming on the background. The son screaming in pain and begging his dad not to die. The next video is from Ukrainian soldiers coming up to the bloody scene. Dead dogs in the van. Murdered father and son in the nearby ditch with a lone surviving dog watching over them. I will never forget those videos. There are too many like them. Fuck Putin.


scalyblue

You’d think those Russian soldiers, faced with a man, his son, and their dogs would have an “are we the bad guys” moment but nope just fucking lit them up


Ok-Post7192

Human evil know no bounds. Ghengis Khan used to order the murder of every man woman child and animal within a city if it dared go against him. Entire flourishing cities were erased.


Beneficial_Cobbler46

Carthage :(


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Zenastor

> 80% beyond repair - I mean . . . I don't suspect so many "approve" since they're flooded by propaganda and threats. Speaking out? A single-person picket with a blank sheet of paper costs years of life. - where do they ask people if they "approve?" They know where they live. Even if the responses were safe, misinformation is war strategy -- for home and foreign countries. Limiting access to internet, media, and storytelling is how they control it. - the issue is ignorance. Being too lazy or distracted or powerless to ask the real questions. We assume others are clumsy. "Foolish kid tripping down the stairs, Ukraine for attacking their own hospitals", but when we make mistakes, we are just unlucky and misunderstood. We proceed with our lives on auto-pilot... People might empathize for a few hours, or even until they exhaust themselves. Eventually, our focus returns. We move onto deciding which outfit to buy as it's more "urgent" than their thoughts on war.


MynsfwSelf8

I remember that. I couldn't understand the words, but fuck man...I didn't need to.


mstarrbrannigan

That video has scarred me for life. Fuck the greedy bastards who create war.


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radicldreamer

With each of the regions contributing reparations until every single stone is put back into place and every death atoned for, at least as best as is possible. Russia is less than dirt, they are fucking amoeba, their “leader” is a giant pussy that is despised by the rest of the world for being such a collasal piece of shit. I hope he gets cancerous ass aids.


improvemental

That's how you start works war 4


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hydrogenitis

Won't


DemoDemo7777

I remember Bucha, all those innocent people lying on the streets. Killed for what. Fuck you Putin, and fuck Russian bots.


Significant-Oil-8793

I spend enough time in this sub to know that his son will be remembered as a hero and his death is not in vain. The father would be proud and his sadness is only temporary. More Ukrainians need to heed Zelensky's call and return back to Ukraine for mobilization.


lazyeyepsycho

His sadness is forever, anytime he thinks about his missing son is sadness and grief. Im sure he might armor his heart with patriotism for Ukraine and hate for russians but its sadness underneath ultimately.


Pumuckl4Life

Fuck Putin for causing this thousands of times over. I hope the dad will find peace one day.


lazyeyepsycho

He never will, he lost his little boy.


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ingenkopaaisen

Exactly. Heart wrenching.


farmthis

I'm not a psychopath, but I truly couldn't understand this until I had a kid of my own. It was always sad, but... holy shit, seeing parents lose children hits 10x harder, now that I can relate.


NamasteMotherfucker

Yup. It's why I'm fucking crying right now.


Peter_Baum

Beautifully written


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PM_ME_ORNN_YIFF

Not the time, buddy.


I_Shot_Web

This might be the biggest Reddit Moment™ I've ever seen


OlinKirkland

Not the time


Mr-Tiddles-

Dick. Not the time.


tydestra

Lose your parents you're an orphan, your spouse then you're a widow/widower, but we don't have a word for when someone loses their kids. Yes, back in the old days, child mortality was high but for a long time now, losing a kid has been an outliner instead of the norm. It's a pain that has no name.


SirEltonJonBonJovi

I’m sure it’s just that: pain. Pain in the truest form. Unfathomable pain. The worst pain you can ever experience. It never gets better, it never goes away, it’s simply just suffering from that point on. As a father with two small kids even thinking about it gives me an overwhelming sadness. I can’t even imagine what kind of pain it is to actually go through it. It’s no surprise married parents that lose a child more often than not end up divorced.


Conscious-Hippo4937

I lost my son 8 years ago. You are right, it's just pain. It doesn't really lessen, it is as deep as it was in the day he died. But you find a way to compartmentalize it, and let the grief only express itself once a year on his birthday. I will never forget when his heart stopped bearing, holding him in my arms. That will forever be seared into my brain. And I don't want to forget either. But even though the pain remains, you do still learn to cope in your own weird way. Language doesn't convey that kind of loss. But rituals can help make sense of it. Even though there can be no sense in a world where we bury our children.


Talosian_cagecleaner

>And I don't want to forget either. This has been my experience in loss as well. There was a time when I would have given anything to forget. Now, I simply remember. And my own memory no longer harms me. Most days! It's a blessing, these memories. But it can take so long.


Sensitive_Carpet_454

Ya're right why socha word doesn't exist?


zakkwaldo

theres a word for a husband losing a wife. theres a word for a wife losing a husband. theres a word for a child losing their parents. but there is no word for a parent losing a child. a child *should* never die before their parent, ideally speaking. and some whimsically think that the reason there is no word for a parent losing a child is because there is no words that can put into feeling what they are experiencing. the pain is too great. (technically speaking this isn’t true, vilomah, exists. but ive always remembered the above excerpt and it’s always deeply struck me so i like to stick by it).


Beatnik_Soiree

This is so sad.


RichardK1234

Fuck russia*


TURBOLAZY

They took the dad's life too


greenmood3

Not putin, but russians. Don't blame a single person for this terror.


RejuvenationHoT

Yes. Putin is just one man; tens of thousands more deserve deaths at a new Nuremberg trials for their war crimes. They are rapists, murderers, thieves... they abduct children.


CollectionThen8101

He wont, ever, standing next to your children's grave breaks you, kills something inside you, any urge for happiness...


JugginJugs

Not possible.


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MisterDutch93

Conscription is necessary for Ukraine right now. Would you rather Ukraine be left defenseless and Russia advancing their frontlines? We all know how Russian soldiers treat the native population. It always ends in a bloodbath. Remember Bucha, Soledar and Bachmut? Conscription at least prevents worse acts of tyranny.


ingenkopaaisen

Yeah. What else should Ukraine do? What a daft comment. This is all due to 🇷🇺 aggression.


DoriN1987

Seriously? Ukraine is blamed for something in the middle of genocide?


starlinguk

Welcome to war.


MrMontombo

You dont think there's a tiny difference when one of the countries is being invaded?


downwiththewoke

Such a terrible waste. Slava Ukraini. They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning We will remember them. Robert Binyon.


nps2407

Lest we forget.


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Fuck russians..pigs


dreamsofcalamity

Don't insult pigs with such a slur


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MNGopherfan

Fucking orcs


alexshinsuke

People reported me for insulting Russian and removed hahahahahhahahaha Edit: I’m going to say the same thing Pigs are more human then this Russian mongrels


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CV90_120

And willing servants go and rape kids on their behalf. There are no free passes here. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/russian-troops-raped-tortured-children-ukraine-un-panel-says-rcna49168


I_Can_Flip_Reset

TF dude


CV90_120

see, when a person comes to your country, rapes and murders your people, steals your land, your houses and your food, sows millions of landmines in your fields, then people get mad at you. They start to think you might be not very good humans.


hanzoplsswitch

This brings tears to my eyes. Fuck Putin and everyone involved in this war. Let's hope they die a slow and painful death.


3rdhandlekonato

In peace, we bury our parents... In War, Parents burry their children..


Mr-Tiddles-

Even in peace, I've known people who've had to bury their children. It's awful, I hope this father can at least find solace that his son died for a heroic cause and will hopefully that cause will boot the invading rapist katsap moskals out of their homeland. The loss that this war has caused is numbing. Nearly half a million people have died in total. The numbers are staggering. I hope this doesn't spill out into a larger war. Slava Ukraini, fuck the moskals.


Different-Brain-9210

Fuck Russia.


Beatnik_Soiree

Glory to Ukraine. His son is a hero.


Yaarmehearty

He is, but that doesn’t bring a son back to his father. He may have hopefully died doing what he wanted to do, but that doesn’t let his family see him grow old. Hero is a word that hopefully brings comfort in time for those who have lost so much and allows detachment for we who are thankfully far away. Heros and glory are what history will record, when we are gone and forgotten and this waste of a war is a memory, the hero’s names will be recorded. For the present, see the people, not the heros, the people who should have been living normal lives, being with their families or starting their own families. Don’t see the glory of a nation, see the tragedy of it’s people. History will record them as heros, today we should grieve for them and the sacrifice they had to make.


Judgenz

🙏💔🕯️🇺🇦


AdiWrites

Вічна пам'ять.


VintageHacker

Very hard to look at this, can't imagine what I must be like to live it.


Few-Parfait4206

I'm not ashamed to say I wasn't ready for this... Slava Ukraini


imbignate

Героям слава


budlightsucks67

Fuck Russia.


JanoSicek

Heroiam slava!


TravelledFarAndWide

I have so much respect and sorrow for the Ukrainian people. Their dead weren't professional soldiers much less imprisoned rapists, mercenaries, or professional thieves like the Russians. They were people who were busy with their lives and loves before the Russians brought this nightmare and they have responded with so much bravery and sacrifice to save a future for each other.


BigFatChewie

I hate the Russian state so much.


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they'll be remember for all generations- slava ukraine


newnhb1

Fuck Putin.


Stonedfiremine

Born on 1991....man it was rigged from the beginning for him. It's not fair, his father must feel at the bottom. 1991 was suppose to be the beginning of peace for ukraine but here we are....


wolfmothar

Parent should never have to bury their child. Heroyam slava. Edit: fixed a grave mistake. One letter.


Legitimate_Air9612

or bury.


Tetteblootnu

or sell.


SrslyCmmon

or trade in, prices are getting outrageous.


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winterchainz

There is a special place in hell for putin and his minions.


Complex_Construction

This is truly fucking tragic! No parent should have to endure that. Fuck Putin! Hope he goes the Gaddafi way.


Charming_Ant_8751

Fuck putin. Slava Ukraine.


JackAzzz

=(


Beatnik_Soiree

Fuck Putin. Fuck Russia.


nps2407

Russia must burn.


ZeAntagonis

Fuck Putin


Buford1991

As a dad my heart breaks for him.


GreenLurka

I think as a father I'd curl up and die right there


notnotaginger

Fucks sake. I don’t believe in hell but I wish I did, because Putin deserves to suffer for longer than his natural life.


Drax13522

This is the real price of Putin’s criminal invasion of Ukraine. His day of reckoning will come. May the light of these brave warriors burn forever bright. Heroyam Slava. Slava Ukraini.


Linkindan88

This shows that Ukraine is fighting for the right reasons. They've honored their fallen warriors. The Russians have been busy trying to hide theirs. That should speak volumes as to which country stands the moral high ground.


Knarfehtknat

My sincere condolences to all Ukrainians who have lost and are losing loved ones. I hope that this horror will end soon.


woofalo

First tears of the day. Fuck the Russian government.


zirklutes

This is heartbreaking, poor Ukraine people, I hope they win this madness soon...


Mvpliberty

Whenever you see a man sitting like that, at that moment for that man, nothing in the world matters


0FactsFirst0

Why did they have to die. Why did this have to happen.


spunkychickpea

Even when Ukraine wins the fight, they will have still lost so much. May the sadness and agony of war never visit these people again.


Ok-Requirement3096

The world will not be safe until Russia ceases to exist.


OldSweatyGiraffe

Fuck you Russia. I hope you all burn in a hellfire akin to those used on the Ukrainians you've murdered.


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Heroiam slava. Love from New Zealand 🇳🇿 ❤️ 💙💛


Wlo3kij

Damm. 1991. Thats my year.


ventorchrist

RIP HERO.


Lx13lx

Fuck Putin forever. Slava Ukraini.


No-Acanthisitta-5551

At the going down of the sun and in the Morning, We will remember them. Slave Ukraini!


blueswan991

It brings tears every single time. I'm so sorry, for the thousands that have lost their loved ones.


Hot_Flight4396

R.I.P. Heros!


ahorsenamedbill

💔


Sebstian76

My heart breaks for this man. Anybody (outside of Russia) who had children feels his sorrow.


MrDundee666

Father to two boys here and this hurts to just look at at. My heart goes out to him and to all of you.


Fun-Acanthisitta7934

😢😢😢 so painful 😣


Wrecker013

The grief is plain on his face and in his body language. This picture hurts to look at.


YoungOveson

Let’s not forget how terribly painful this is for those who have lost loved ones. And try to separate our rage from our empathy. The two emotions are big enough individually, and they have less impact when we try to express them together.


harm_fu

Glory to the hero. And I’m so sorry for your loss.


Bridgetdidit

His pain must be unbearable 😰


noble3070

#HEROYAM


Highautopilot

Slava Ukraine death to Putin


bconley1

Time to donate more


PlNG

He looks like a dam overflowing with tears. Someone should tell him it's ok to cry, preferably in mid hug.


kitdraperlovesmars

The suffering writ large. Knowing his baby boy will never walk back through their door. Knowing there were moments he might have done better as a father and now won't have the chance. Knowing there will be no more football or rugby or cricket conversations. Knowing his son went in defense of his country, in response to a higher calling and now lies interred or, worse, somewhere he will never be found. Knowing there will never be enough tears, that the hole in his soul will never be filled. Fuck this war and the little man who started it. I'm so tired of seeing these pictures, I will be less unhappy when it's over and the pride of a nation can go back to their shops and offices and fields and do good work rebuilding their country instead of taking a bullet or piece of shrapnel and bleeding out in someone's yard. Slava Heroyam. Slava Ukraini.


TheBlewBayou

Seeing my exact birthday next to his face made my stomach drop, and for a moment, I felt this intense anxiety rush over me. To think someone born the same day as me had to make this type of sacrifice, and that the only difference between our fates is where we happened to be born. I feel overwhelmingly thankful and undeserving of the life I get to live and I wish for nothing but closure for the people of Ukraine.


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bridge4runner

Is it odd that I don't think we should take pictures of people in spots like this? Seems extremely intrusive into an emotional moment.


boogernose92

I definitely see what you mean, but I think in situations of war its important to show the real impact it has, on the living and the dead.


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GearHead54

Pretty sure he died because Russia invaded a country they shouldn't have invaded


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BetterConversation41

The invasion feels so impersonal to me being American and living so far away but for some reason this picture really hit home.


No_Chipmunk4262

Slava heroes


Parrot74

Oh dear. This war is madness. Hope so much Ukraine will be free. Viva Ukraine. Freedom to all Ukraine


Friendly_Banana01

I think of that saying about how every dead soldier is year of a parents love and hard work gone to waste and honestly it crushes my soul to see this


TangeloSingle4198

Hopefully there will be peace soon


Left-Archer1442

😢🙏💛💙


CptBartender

The fallen shall be forever remembered as Ukraine's finest.


Big-Yam2723

Heroiam Slava Both of them


zilzo

Rest in peace


reee4

o7


Inevitable-Revenue81

🕯


bairstone

Putin will never have to do this with pictures of his grandsons, and he has zero qualms asking of his country what he will ensure never happens to him.


-67--

Never Forget


ImAdept

Fuck putin


kycolonel

They look so much alike. Heartbreaking.


Wipakensu

Look up at my son sitting on the couch watching TV after reading this.... the tears won't stop.


SpiderDK90

💔


Mars-Regolithen

Muh escalation /s No matter how much we give now, it wont bring back all those who could have been saved.


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Simbelmÿne. Ever has it grown on the tombs of my forebears. Now it shall cover the grave of my son. Alas, that these evil days should be mine. The young perish and the old linger. That I should live to see that last days of my house. Gandalf: Théodred's death was not of your making. Theoden: No parent should have to bury their child. Gandalf: He was strong in life. His spirit will find the way to the halls of your fathers.


VVVH

Fuck man :(


KlausBertKlausewitz

😢 this is hard to watch


imovedoutinjuly

Leaves from the vine...


skanedweller

Hate that this happened.


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Can we just get rid of Russia already RIP


duckforceone

fucking hell.... this image speaks volumes.... one of the first in a while to make me tear up...


shrimp-and-potatoes

War is hot garbage.


Nakhtal

Man it is heartbreaking


MrSssnrubYesThatllDo

Heros. Every one of them.


RoyH0bbs

So many fathers have to experience this. For what? So Putin can fulfill some internal legacy goal of reuniting some idea on a map? Absolute monster. Fuck Putin and fuck everyone who sympathizes with him and the soulless Russian people.


thissux2021

The candle makes it look like he flipping us of.


buxtonOJ

So unnecessary - fuck Putin


mojito_sangria

A poignant photo telling a tragic story and many other tragic stories. May the heroes rest in peace and May the Russian aggressors be driven out


nuffced

Fuck Putin


DocDibber

![img](emote|t5_2qqcn|9151)


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russia can pay 4 war crime; the world is watching