Hero Fedya withdrew into himself after saving two girls during an attack by saboteurs

Over the past week, Ukrainian sabotage groups have been trying to penetrate Russian territory. But the most memorable attack on the border regions remains the DRG raid in the Klimovsky district of the Bryansk region on March 2 last year. Then, as a result of an attack in the village of Lyubechane, two people were killed and a ten-year-old child was injured. It turned out to be third-grader Fyodor, who took two girls from a car under fire into the forest, then caught a ride, and it took them to the nearest village.

“MK” decided to find out how the hero “Uncle Fedor” (as local residents began to call him) lives a year later, how he studies and feels.

Then all of Russia admired the boy’s fortitude and courage. The child realized that one of the bullets hit him in the back later, when everyone was already safe. He underwent a complex operation, then the governor of the region personally presented Fedor’s family with a new house (their old house was damaged during the Ukrainian terrorist attack), and the boy was also awarded the medal “For Courage.”

Together with his younger six-year-old sister and mother, Fedya lives in a new house in the village of Sachkovichi, Klimovsky district.

“Everything seems to be fine with us, we are learning,” said mother Raisa. “We still can’t get used to such luxurious conditions.” There is water, gas, kitchen, furniture. Everything is fine with my son’s health, however, the doctors said that it would take a long time for everything to heal thoroughly, because the bullet was removed from him. But Fedor doesn’t complain about anything.

– Does he remember his feat?

– We will probably never forget that day. He will stay with us for life. But there is no feat there, there is fear under Fedya’s feet all the time. He tries to forget, but fails. He sleeps well, but has withdrawn almost completely from society. He is not friends with anyone, does not communicate. School and home – everything! Here he went to a new school, now in the fourth grade.

Alas, according to the woman, not everything is going smoothly for the boy in the new team.

– In the new school, of course, he has friends, but there are also those who tease and even put pressure on him. And do you know why?! Because he was awarded a medal! Yes, it’s clear that children have some kind of envy. But all this is reflected in Fed. Sometimes it happens that he doesn’t even want to go to class. In the summer I went for a walk, seemed to have found friends, but a month later I said: “I won’t go for a walk anymore!” There was probably no need to show him off to the whole country as a hero; many are jealous, I won’t hide it. Even the boys are rude and rude. This is very hard for me to hear, not just for the child. There is bullying. But we got a very good teacher. She always supports him and tries to protect him from attacks. As a result, my son became withdrawn and changed. He is now at such an age that it is good to have some adult men next to him, but there aren’t any. The two eldest sons are still fighting in the Northern Military District. They are on the front line. We came on vacation for two weeks, but what is it – two weeks? Nothing… For example, I can’t even imagine how we will continue to live when all this is over and our sons return home.

– Why?

“When they arrived, you could see how much they had changed. They have become more mature, they try not to let me know anything. One is now 24 years old, the other is a year older. They just want to experience life, but they have already seen everything in this life. One son was a little positive, but the other went into himself when he came on vacation and said: “What should I do here? Two days is enough to stay and I need to go there, my friends are there, my family is there, my life is there.” And they don’t talk about the SVO topic at all.

– Does Fedya communicate with them?

– With them, yes, but with me he stopped. We went to a psychologist several times – it was useless, he did not open up. The specialist said that one of his relatives could stir him up. My sister and eldest daughter somehow found a common language with him now. Fedya is more or less open with them. But he also started to become a bit of a star – he stopped helping me around the house. Here we have all the conditions; you don’t need to do anything in the yard. We used to chop wood and fetch water together, my son went to work with me, but now it’s completely closed. He doesn’t share anything with me, doesn’t tell me anything. Like another child. The pain will remain there for a very long time. However, I recently learned one thing. My son and I were standing in the store, waiting for our daughter to arrive, then a man came up to us and said: “I am so grateful to your son, thank him very much for saving me from death!” It turns out that this was the same driver who gave Fedenka and the girls a ride after the shelling. Then his son simply fell to his knees in front of him and shouted: “Uncle, don’t go there, you won’t pick us up, okay, just don’t go there, they’re shooting there.” And this man turned around, took the children and took them to the village.

In the new house, as Raisa said, they live well, but she often misses her old life and household.

– It’s, of course, quieter here than in that village – it often “bangs” there. But life is completely different,” the woman sighs. – Even though we had an old house there, I had a job (I was a milkmaid), I had friends, I had everything. And here there is everything in the house, but no friends, no acquaintances, no work.

At these words the woman began to cry.

– What do you live on?

– We somehow get by – we eat what we have saved, we also get “children’s”, my sons help. I keep pushing, I have to refuse something. But I didn’t ask for help, I wasn’t used to it.

To be honest, I’ve been depressed since we moved here. Firstly, after that incident with Fedya, and secondly, it would be better if I lived in my old house, where I felt like a human being. Apparently, at 42 years old, moving has a very hard impact.