Fellow villagers of the boy-hero from the Bryansk region told how his brothers went to the SVO

A third-grader from the Bryansk region, who was wounded by Ukrainian saboteurs, underwent an operation that lasted about four hours. A ten-year-old hero who saved two first-graders by taking them out of the shelling into the forest had a bullet removed from the left pleural cavity. Fortunately, the heart, lungs and large blood vessels were not affected. As it turned out, Fedya’s two older brothers are fighting in the special operation zone. Residents of the village of Brakhlova, Klimovsky district, Bryansk region, spoke about their family.

Fedor’s mother’s name is Rokhathon, but the villagers call her Paradise. The Rai family came to Brahlov in 1996.

“As far as I know, Raya is a Crimean Tatar by nationality, she and her mother came to us from Tajikistan,” says one of the residents of the village. – Rai already had a little daughter, Elzara, whom she gave birth to very early, at the age of 14.

She herself comes from a large family. Raya had to live in Russia for a very long time without a passport, without receiving any benefits. All of us took great pity on her. It would seem that then life got better: she got married, gave birth to two boys. But Rai’s husband died early. She alone had to raise her sons.

And the further personal life of Rai, as the villagers say, did not work out. Two more boys were born. She gave birth to her daughter Lena Raya in Moscow, where she worked for two years. All raised alone.

“Raya is a very good, very good-natured woman, a real hard worker,” says the villager. “She was just unlucky in her personal life.

Raya is already a grandmother three times. Her eldest daughter has three children, one of whom is disabled. She lives next door, in the Klimovsky district. She is 26 years old, but she is already a widow. Her husband died: as they say in the village, there was an accident.

Rai’s two eldest sons, Ivan and Ilya, who are now 23 and 24 years old, are in the special operation zone in Ukraine, fighting.

– The guys worked in Moscow. We have no work in the village, everyone goes to work in the capital. Ivan and Ilya were handed summons at a construction site in Moscow, and they were already called up from our military registration and enlistment office, which is located in Novozybkovo.

The guys have a very small age difference – a year and a month. They have been in the NWO zone for half a year already. For the sixth month they have been fighting somewhere near Kremennaya. They haven’t been on vacation yet.

According to local residents, Raya is very worried about her sons.

She is a very caring mother. Her children were always fed and clothed. After the 9th grade, the middle son went to study at a school in Novozybkov. Our hero is in the third grade, his sister is six years old, she goes to kindergarten.

The villagers say that everyone is now worried about the wounded boy.

– He is in Bryansk, in the hospital, the operation was successful, the bullet was removed from him. Everything is fine with him.

The boy is grown beyond his years!

Yes, he had to grow up early. He is very independent, responsible, caring, kind. She does a lot around the house, looks after her little sister. And he’s big as a dad. After all, Paradise herself is thin, “40 kilograms with bones”, and the boy is “blood with milk”. His father is two meters tall. He lives in our village. He now has his own family, but he communicates with his son.

Residents of Brakhlov say that Rae’s life has been hard, and helping their family would not hurt.

Raya works on a farm for a local entrepreneur, milking cows. Gas is not supplied to their house, they have stove heating. Grandmother, Raina’s mother, does not live with them now, she works as a nanny in Moscow.

In Brakhlov, everyone feels sorry for the deceased Leonid Golovachev, who drove the children to the school bus.

– Lenya is ours, Brakhlov, the second deceased from Lubechan. Leonid, risking his life, carried meals and firewood to our fighters.

He has a very kind wife. Do not count how many she sent pies, “brushwood” and spins to the fighters. We are very sorry that such a wonderful person as Lenya has passed away. Out of the kindness of his heart, he brought the kids. Our school was closed, they said that it was not advisable for it to function, although we have children. They promised to take them to school, but the driver of the school bus from September 1 categorically refused to go to Brahlov. And no one could force him. Leonid took the children to Novy Ropsk, and there they were taken by a school bus to the Sachkovichi school.

Residents of Brakhlov say that only one road leads to their village, which is now blocked. In a straight line from Brakhlov to the border with Ukraine – about three kilometers. The villagers say they constantly hear the cannonade.