Volodymyr Kowalski was called the “Bucha Terminator”. The veteran of anti-terrorist operation in 2016 exploded on a mine, lost legs and walked on two prostheses. And was among the first who came out to defend his hometown from the occupiers, according to TSN .

Kateryna and six-year-old Dmytro came to their native Bucha from abroad to say goodbye to their husband and father and immediately went to where he died. “We came to my dad to say goodbye, to lay flowers to him,” says Katya and her son.

Dmytro’s father was among the first to come out with weapons to defend his hometown from the occupiers. On the morning of February 27, they still saw him alive.

“There was a battle here, Russian tanks were moving to pass to Kyiv. The Bucha terrorist defense detained four wounded, and Volodya was the first to die in the city of Bucha . He left the yard at 8 am, and at 11 am my brothers told me that he would not return home, ”Katya recalls.

Vladimir Kovalsky – the veteran of anti-terrorist operation. He passed the Maidan and volunteered to go east. In the spring of 2016, he exploded on a mine and lost both legs, and his wife was already pregnant. While Vladimir was in the military hospital, she was there and helped to recover. The soldier was then assembled all over the world for modern prostheses. Vladimir wanted to return to active life so much that six months after a serious injury, he took part in the “Heroes’ Games”. He was nicknamed the “Bucha Terminator”. On February 24, the comrades-in-arms tried to persuade them not to go into battle. “I once told him that you could go home, he said ‘no,’ just give me a machine gun,” said platoon deputy commander Viktor Khomyak.

On February 27, he was found wounded and died on the way to the hospital. His family could not say goodbye to him.

And so the six-year-old son Dmytro walks 2 kilometers through the ruined Bucha – from the place where his father died to the place where he was buried. With such an honorable ceremony, the family wanted to pay tribute to their hero. “We wanted to stop, he said no, I will go, it was his move to his father, he did not hide and was not around, he came to his father’s grave for the first time and rightly so,” said volunteer Kateryna Ukrainseva.