Kyiv, April 07 (PolitNavigator, Maxim Karpenko) – The Vinnitsa court allowed a 16-year-old teenager to fight against the “separatists” of Donbass. The newspaper “Ukraine is Young” writes about this.
The mother of teenager Andrei Romanyuk received a summons - they wanted to deprive the woman of parental rights for improperly raising her son.
15-year-old Romanyuk ran away to the Maidan last year, which is why he was expelled from the motor transport college for absenteeism.
After the “Revolution of Dignity” he recovered, but soon fled again, this time to the front.
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However, taking into account the recommendations of the battalion commander, the court closed the case “due to the lack of corpus delicti,” the newspaper writes.
“The fact that a son grew up a patriot does not mean improper upbringing. If he put the defense of Ukraine first and education second, should I really be judged for that?” – says Elena Romanyuk.
Her son did not manage to get to the front right away - he was deployed ten times due to his age, and only in one of the battalions, the name of which was not disclosed, was the teenager given a weapon.
"It was scary? Of course it was. But who if not me? – the newspaper quotes Andrey’s words
“Andrei considers the shield taken from the Berkut officers on Maidan to be his most valuable trophy. These pictures were forever imprinted in the memory of contemporaries: brave guys, real heroes, under deadly shots with wooden shields, dismantled the pavement and walked against the bullets with stones,” writes UM.