Bohdan Osipov from the village of Rokytne in Poltava region experienced one of the most difficult losses – the death of his father. Andrii Osipov was 41 years old and volunteered in the first days of the full-scale invasion. In 2024, the man was killed by a grenade. It came as a shock to Bohdan. “It took me a year to realise that my father was gone,” he admits. There are still things at home that remind him of his father: tools, headphones, and an unfinished gazebo that the father and son planned to build together.

Bohdan told his war story during the “Peaceful Rest for Children of Ukraine” programme in Zakarpattia, organised by the Rinat Akhmetov Foundation.