Sergey Lysenko and I served in VOSTOK Battalion together in 2015, in different units, but we got to know each other, as soldiers, as comrades, and also as musicians and poet warriors. By 2018, when things had become static on the front lines, we both retired as front line soldiers, me, to work on Information Warfare, Sergey, as a decorated officer, (captain, for bravery in combat) to work with the DPR administration and MoD, helping wounded veterans. We kept in touch, became close friends, and worked on several patriotic musical projects together, frontline concerts, recording Sergey's songs, and just being friends.
In early February, 2022, Sergey invited me to join him for a concert in Donetsk. Only a few days later, the SMO began. Sergey was exempt from conscription because of his work helping veterans, but he chose to volunteer anyway, and go back to the Front. He explained that he could not face his neighbors in the frontline Kievsky District of Donetsk, if he stayed home while others volunteered or were conscripted. This song explains his perspective completely. He returned to the Front, even though he did not have to go, and was killed in combat less than two months later, on the 9th of May 2022.
His grave is in an honored place, only a few meters from the grave of Alexander Zakharchenko, the father of the Donetsk People's Republic. The image of him, etched into his black granite headstone, shows him standing in military uniform, a guitar in one hand and a Kalashnikov in the other. My friend, comrade and brother, a true Poet Warrior. Defender of the Fatherland... Remember.
In early February, 2022, Sergey invited me to join him for a concert in Donetsk. Only a few days later, the SMO began. Sergey was exempt from conscription because of his work helping veterans, but he chose to volunteer anyway, and go back to the Front. He explained that he could not face his neighbors in the frontline Kievsky District of Donetsk, if he stayed home while others volunteered or were conscripted. This song explains his perspective completely. He returned to the Front, even though he did not have to go, and was killed in combat less than two months later, on the 9th of May 2022.
His grave is in an honored place, only a few meters from the grave of Alexander Zakharchenko, the father of the Donetsk People's Republic. The image of him, etched into his black granite headstone, shows him standing in military uniform, a guitar in one hand and a Kalashnikov in the other. My friend, comrade and brother, a true Poet Warrior. Defender of the Fatherland... Remember.
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Sergey Lysenko and I served in VOSTOK Battalion together in 2015, in different units, but we got to know each other, as soldiers, as comrades, and also as musicians and poet warriors. By 2018, when things had become static on the front lines, we both retired as front line soldiers, me, to work on Information Warfare, Sergey, as a decorated officer, (captain, for bravery in combat) to work with the DPR administration and MoD, helping wounded veterans. We kept in touch, became close friends, and worked on several patriotic musical projects together, frontline concerts, recording Sergey's songs, and just being friends.
In early February, 2022, Sergey invited me to join him for a concert in Donetsk. Only a few days later, the SMO began. Sergey was exempt from conscription because of his work helping veterans, but he chose to volunteer anyway, and go back to the Front. He explained that he could not face his neighbors in the frontline Kievsky District of Donetsk, if he stayed home while others volunteered or were conscripted. This song explains his perspective completely. He returned to the Front, even though he did not have to go, and was killed in combat less than two months later, on the 9th of May 2022.
His grave is in an honored place, only a few meters from the grave of Alexander Zakharchenko, the father of the Donetsk People's Republic. The image of him, etched into his black granite headstone, shows him standing in military uniform, a guitar in one hand and a Kalashnikov in the other. My friend, comrade and brother, a true Poet Warrior. Defender of the Fatherland... Remember.
In early February, 2022, Sergey invited me to join him for a concert in Donetsk. Only a few days later, the SMO began. Sergey was exempt from conscription because of his work helping veterans, but he chose to volunteer anyway, and go back to the Front. He explained that he could not face his neighbors in the frontline Kievsky District of Donetsk, if he stayed home while others volunteered or were conscripted. This song explains his perspective completely. He returned to the Front, even though he did not have to go, and was killed in combat less than two months later, on the 9th of May 2022.
His grave is in an honored place, only a few meters from the grave of Alexander Zakharchenko, the father of the Donetsk People's Republic. The image of him, etched into his black granite headstone, shows him standing in military uniform, a guitar in one hand and a Kalashnikov in the other. My friend, comrade and brother, a true Poet Warrior. Defender of the Fatherland... Remember.
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