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Only really responsible businesses can handle it. The Ferrexpo group policy is clear here: honoring veterans is a way of expressing gratitude for their service and supporting in a peaceful life after the war. "Every call can be the last" news about the beginning of the "Great War" Olga Yevtushenko perceived with distrust - she sent her daughter to school, she gathered to work.

When the schools and kindergartens began to take away children, she already understood firmly - she would not leave Ukraine. Also read the operation "Truba": how the Russians were able to break through the Judge through the gas network "I am against a truce": Krotevich explained how Ukraine can win in the war "not rushing in peace": one of the European countries refused to send peacekeepers to Ukraine Moscow. The Poltava Mining and Processing Plant to go to work.

"I realized that he decided to go to defend Ukraine," Olga Yevtushenko recalls. "I waited, the door of my office opens - it goes dressed, with a backpack. It was a quick five -minute farewell, he did not want to see my tears. " She was most difficult to understand that every call could be the last. "The first person who supported me is I myself," Olga says. "I forbade myself to be scattered, cry. I was seriously set up: I think, Valery - in the army, he protects us, so I have to be strong.

" "Enemies need to stop" by Valery Yevtushenko's own memories of the first days of a full -scale invasion. "Olga called and said" Did you see? There the war began, the missiles flew, the civilians bomb. The enemy in Kiev destroys civilian cars with heavy equipment. "They will do it if no one gives them a reference to them," Valery recalls his thoughts. Then he, an employee of the Poltava Mining and Processing Plant, realized that he could not stay away and needs to protect the country.

"We came to the distribution point, I was asked," Do you go to the combat brigade? "I say," I will go, of course. "I didn't know where and what, I was only a civilian. The beginning of the confrontation with the vast Russian army came to "difficult times", says the veteran. Although there was not enough support, the boys were madly motivated. The military themselves were driven by the commanders - "they say, let's stop enemies.

" "We understood that they needed to be stopped as soon as possible so that they do not seize many territories in us," says Valery Yevtushenko. Valerie was lucky - there were many volunteers in his unit, mainly from his native Poltava region. Only workers of the Poltava Mining and Processing Plant-more than twenty. "It was a reactive division," Valery recalls. "We had a reactive weapon on the basis of Czech RM-70 Vampire (a reactive volley fire system). There was a need for food, in everything.

But it was so united, everyone had a very strong thirst. Valery Yevtushenko admits - before the war he was little interested in the history of Ukraine. The man has not yet separated himself from the Russians, thought that Ukrainians with the northern neighbor were really the only people, and was very mistaken. "When I started to study this issue, I realized that it was an enemy and an enemy in generations," he says.

In the Armed Forces, Valery Yevtushenko was among those who liberated Kherson region. In total, in the Kherson direction, it was two years. When the Ukrainian military entered the newly released territory, they were amazed. "I saw so much devastation! It's just barbarians - they destroyed the equipment, took it from farmers, broke the buildings just to break," he recalls. The seen only strengthened him that the price of our freedom, the nation is extremely large. "Guys shed blood, shed it a lot.

Our country has not surrender, it recovers and will continue to thrive," Vetran is convinced. Valery and Olga Yevtushenko's marriage planned to get to the "Great" War. However, as soon as in Ukraine, a simplified mechanism of marriage registration online for military personnel has been launched and the opportunity to stand on a towel without personal presence for registration appeared, they used it. "In our city we were the first -hand in this matter," Olga says.

"Then I advised the girls who wanted to marry the military, and the husband helped military personnel. " Valery Yevtushenko recalls how he announced his brothers from a platoon about his own planned online friendship. Immediately seven boys also decided to get with their loved ones this way. The bridegroom came to communication against the background of the Ukrainian yellow-blue flag, which he decorated the wall in the destroyed building, and finally told his chosen the most important words.

"He was on a video, and we were married," Olga recalls. The Yevtushenko spouses dreamed of the baby, so they did not postpone replenishment in the family before the end of the war. A month before childbirth, the wife waited at home. "We very much wanted a baby and God gave a wonderful daughter. We are very happy," Olga Yevtushenko rejoices. And Valery adds: "The family is the most important thing for me.

He returned to the plant because he was convinced that this is the best solution to improve his own emotional and physical condition. Ferrexpo policies and support of the team contribute to this. The veteran says, "I want to live in a free country and understand that it is not threatening.