Ukrainian Rescuer Turns Out To Be Retired Major General In The SES … from Crooks & Liars Ed Scarce

As is their wont to do, the Russian terrorists bombed a kindergarten in Kharkiv on October 22. Seven people were killed and 27 were wounded in other strikes throughout Ukraine that day, but none of the children at the kindergarten were hurt.

Oleksandr Volobuyev is retired now, but the former head of State Emergency Services (SES) ran into the burning building without any gear on or any thought to his own safety. Just doing what his years of training told him to do.

Source: New Voice of Ukraine

On October 22, after the Russian attack on a kindergarten in Kharkiv, a photo began to spread online showing a gray-haired man in civilian clothes helping to save children. He turned out to be Major General, former head of the State Emergency Service of the Kharkiv region, Oleksandr Volobuyev.

The man in the photo was recognized by the director of the Global 2000 Children’s Fund of Ukraine, Yulia Konotoptseva.

According to the woman, she was watching a video showing rescuers carrying children out of a burning kindergarten and trying to do it as quickly as possible, as Russian war criminals often attack the same place a second time to cause casualties among rescuers and civilians.

“And here’s the next shot – a gray-haired man in civilian clothes runs out with a child, covered in a black jacket and only her pink pants and slippers are visible.

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