this time, for a man who was not quite a soldier and not quite a civilian, either. 21 year old denys sosnenko was a body collector. his mother is led towards his open coffin. sobs. last year, we met denys, standing in the background here. he was with his team of volunteers, close to the front lines. a grim and dangerousjob, scouring ukraine s battlefields for abandoned bodies ukrainian and russian soldiers alike. and now, he s being buried a few days after driving over an anti tank mine. he always told us, i have to do this work. if not me, then who?” , says his mother, lyudmyla. sobs.
was a body collector. his mother is led towards his open coffin. sobs. last year, we met denys, standing in the background here. he was with his team of volunteers, close to the front lines. a grim and dangerousjob, scouring ukraine s battlefields for abandoned bodies ukrainian and russian soldiers alike. and now, he s being buried a few days after driving over an anti tank mine. he always told us, i have to do this work. if not me, then who?” , says his mother, lyudmyla. sobs. last october, another bbc team caught up with denys, collecting more russian bodies after checking they weren t booby trapped,
his mother is led towards his open coffin. she sobs last year, we met denys, standing in the background here. he was with his team of volunteers, close to the front lines. a grim and dangerousjob. scouring ukraine s battlefields forabandoned bodies, ukrainian and russian soldiers alike. and now, he s being buried, a few days after driving over an anti tank mine. he always told us, i have to do this work. if not me, then who?” , says his mother, lyudmyla. she sobs last october, another bbc team caught up with denys, collecting more russian bodies, after checking they weren t booby trapped, as they often are. denys spoke then of the horrors of the work, of picking
try and educate the site team to use this correctly. it s not a rubbish bin. i would actually say it s my dream job. when the road s closed, we ll usually leave two people on a closure point, and that ensures that no members of public come through. i ve heard of stories where people are pulling up to closure points and, you know, they re not happy. theyjust want to be through. so they will get out and attack the operatives with it could be weapons, it could just be spitting at them, which is horrendous. so, yes, it can be a dangerousjob with members of the public. one of the biggest risks of night shift work is people driving into our road closure.
it s my dream job. when the roads closed, we ll usually leave two people on a closure point, and that ensures that no members of public come through. i ve heard of stories where people are pulling up to closure points and, you know, they re not happy. they just want to be through. so they will get out and attack the operatives with it could be weapons, it could just be spitting at them, which is horrendous. so, yes, it can be a dangerousjob with members of the public. one of the biggest risks of night shift work is people driving into our road closure. that can be by accident, or sometimes it can be on purpose. we ve got a lot of people on foot on that road, working.