"I have never, never quarreled with him! I loved him very much," says the grandmother of the Hero of Ukraine Dmytro Kotsyubailo in a conversation with hromadske, recalling her grandson's childhood antics or his youth and his first experience of smoking.
We met Ivanna Vynnyk at the opening of the museum of Dmytro Kotsyubail (call sign "Da Vinci") at the Bovshiv school in Ivano-Frankivsk region, which he graduated from. Grandma brought here many things from Dmytro's collection (a military helmet from the Second World War, a kerosene lamp and a broken wall clock), which he kept in her shed. He says that Dmytro got a metal detector as a young man because he liked to look for various old artifacts around the village.
Birch trees planted by Ivanka grow in memory of her grandson near Mrs. Ivanka's house. He says that he spent most of his time as a child in her house. Here he also received a concussion from a blow with an old swing, while the grandmother took care of the household. Even then, as a child, he asked his grandmother if he would be accepted into the army with such an injury. He says that he did not want to join the army.
Even at the school in Bovshev, they recall that there was no hint that Dmytro might choose a military career. Like, a calm, short boy who above all loves to draw. Now his school drawings hang on the walls of the museum. However, the Revolution of Dignity, and then the war, changed everything in his life.
Watch the report of Mariana Pietsukh from the village of Bovshiv: the opening of the museum, the stories of Dmytro's class teacher, Oleksandra, his younger sister, and Ivanka, his grandmother.
00:00 Da Vinci
00:42 Opening of the museum of Dmytro Kotsiubailo in the village of Bovshiv, Ivano-Frankivsk region
04:15 What Dmytro's things were handed over to the museum by his grandmother
06:59 Rockets over the house where Da Vinci grew up
8:32 Dmytro's extended family
9:18 Grandmother about Da Vinci's bride
10:05 Dmytro's childhood
11:35 Prom dance and painted desk
13:47 Dmitry's homemade ring and school drawings
15:40 Trip to the Maidan and the first wounding in the Anti-terrorist operation
17:04 Dmytro started smoking as a student
18:15 Why didn't he get married
19:17 Dmytro's room
20:22 Grandmother's premonition before her grandson's death
21:42 Why Da Vinci was buried in Kyiv
22:35 How a grandmother treats dodgers
24:07 About Dmytro's younger brother with a disability, who is being served with a summons
25:20 About the historical struggle of the residents of the village of Bovshiv
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