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Each veteran history is an incredible example of stability and courage. At the same time, the issue of reintegration of veterans into society remains important. Only truly responsible businesses are trying to handle it. On February 23, 2022, the family of lovers gathered for a picnic. Despite the pleasant drive and relatives at the common hearth, the feeling of inevitable has already hung in the air.
Radio was said that the war was inevitable - hostile equipment on the border was almost no chance of peaceful solution. Mykola Kohan then also clearly realized that there would be a war. The fact that he will be among those who will protect his native Ukraine with his arms - no doubt for a moment. At the time, he was over. "He says I will go. And in three days he went to the army," - recalls his wife Natalia Kohan.
The realization that a neighboring country, where she lives with many relatives, came with the war was difficult. "When the war began, I began to write to relatives [to Russia]," the veteran's wife recalls. "One of them answered me," You don't worry, we'll get out of Nazi and go home. I write to her: I came to the village to my grandmother, to me, you found a man here where you saw those Nazi? And somehow it got bad.
Why did they decide that we need to release us from someone? Why do they destroy our cities, families kill children? ”And the man was already going to replenish the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Despair The decision to take a weapon was very difficult and at the same time important. Ammunition for the newly made warrior. Ferrexpo. The radio reported that there was a threat of aviation attack. "We moved away from that building at the distance of three houses.
We ran into the basement and heard that the attack was going from the air," recalls the veteran Mykola Kohan. "When it end where there was a two -storey house, summer kitchen, auxiliary buildings, only the front door and a piece of wall remained. " During the service, it happened many times that the hostile rocket or projectile destroyed equipment and things. So it was necessary to renew everything. "I go in touch, I say everything is destroyed, help. For the weight of gold.
All this time, Natalia's wife was waiting for her husband at home. "I did not leave the country because I couldn't leave my husband. At any time he could come home on vacation, and I would be somewhere with my children abroad," the veteran's wife says. "There were some scary moments when he was three and four days in touch, he wrote nothing, because there was no light. There were times when he just sent a smiley, and everything," says Natalia Kohan.
"I constantly said to my wife: - Lover, all is well, don't worry. I tried to reassure her somehow. Here the shelling just ended, I call her. The shelling begins - I stop the call again so that she does not hear it," - recalls Nikolai Kohan. One day, the connection broke out finally. It turned out that during the tank shelling, the fighter, falling on the ground, broke the phone.
The couple decided to meet as close as possible to the front line during a three -day vacation to resolve the issue of communication. So Natalia Kohan came to Slavyansk. And for a while she sent her husband to a new phone photo with two blue strips of pregnancy test. "I returned, thank God, without injuries," the veteran says. "I was released in family circumstances. It was very difficult. I lost for several years, I did not see the children grow.