The Story Of One Day

(the flash story about the war in Ukraine)

Dmytro with his wife and seven-year-old son ran through the dark forest from Russian soldiers. In their small Ukrainian village, their house had probably already been destroyed; shots were heard behind them… They were tired and hungry, but very glad to be alive…

After a few hours; the family decided to stop to rest and eat. The country road was 30 meters away, the human voices could be barely heard around.

“Thanks God! Our soldiers on our tanks!” Yevgenia peeked out from behind the tree. She saw some soldiers who pulled over at their tanks relaxing and looking around the dense forest. The young mother took her scared son by the hand and walked towards them, urging her husband to follow her.

* * *

A young soldier standing far from the others saw a woman with a child through binoculars, his gaze immediately changed. He looked at his comrades, who were intensively discussing something, showed some gesture, and turned his gaze back.

* * *

“Zhenya, hurry up! Run back! Faster, faster! Something is not clear here!” Dmytro quickly grabbed his folks and fell behind some spreading tree before anyone else noticed them.

* * *

“Hey, why are you standing there? There is nothing to catch here. Or you noticed something, right?” The senior sergeant addressed the eighteen-year-old comrade soldier.

“I looked at the birds…I’m on my way back,” the youngster answered quickly, hearing a loud laugh of his elder comrades behind him.

The soldier remembered his younger brother and mother, his family…Who did he leave them for…?

The Russian soldiers got into the tanks and drove off.

* * *

“I still did not understand what was wrong! This was our hope…twenty kilometers are ahead of us…I don’t want to die here with a child,” Zhenya was angry.

“One of the soldiers saw you and began to imperceptibly show some sign with his hand, and that sign, I guess, meant, “Stop.” Well, I realized that these soldiers were definitely not ours…”

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