Serhiy advises other people who find themselves in a similar situation to act independently and not to wait for the authorities to take up the case of a missing person. To get assistance, you must contact the military unit. If you know that a person has died, but is considered missing, you have to find his or her comrades who were with him or her so that they can testify in court. You have to talk to the commander. You should contact only official bodies and organizations searching for prisoners, dead and missing persons. Otherwise, there is a risk of running into fraudsters who profit from other people’s misfortune.
It was in the spring of 2022 that Andriy Khriakov, a defender from Sloviansk, went missing somewhere near Rubizhne, the Luhansk region. We talked to his younger brother Serhiy about how it happened, how the family found out all the circumstances of the tragedy, what kind of person Andriy was, and how he joined the army.