This is the emotional moment
when a son is reunited with his crying mother in a Ukrainian village recaptured
from Russian troops.
Footage shows Vyacheslav
Zadorenko, the mayor of the Derhachi district in Kharkiv Oblast near the
Russian border, embracing his relieved mother in his liberated hometown after
six months behind enemy lines.
Ukraine’s remarkable advance
has liberated a vast area around Kharkiv from Putin’s grip and forced his
soldiers to surrender and flee in an embarrassing setback before his brutal
invasion.
Zadorenko shared the video of
the reunion online, saying, “The day I’ve been waiting for more than anything
in my life – meeting my dear mother!”
The mayor is seen getting out
of his car and immediately hugging his tearful mother who says: ‘Vyacheslav, my
love! I waited, I knew you would return. My flower has finished blooming. I
thought it would die, but it grew and bloomed. My golden, my treasure!’
He replies, “Mommy, I knew I’d
come for you.”
The mother then hugs other men
in uniform in the touching video and says, “We managed to keep everything safe.
I’ve been waiting for you to come back! I took all your stuff and kept it. Only
thing is the house has been mined, I’m told.’
Zadorenko adds: “I missed you
so much.”
In a typical maternal manner,
the mother tells her son that she has prepared a lot of borscht, a Ukrainian
main course, for him and offers to feed him immediately.
After he unsuccessfully tried
to calm her down, she says, “I knew you were coming to set me free. We all knew
in Kozacha that this day would come. At the gas station they said you would
come.’
