On the way from a business trip, we stopped at a gas station. And they met this little one.

A station employee approached us and said that he has been coming to the gas station for almost two years now, because suddenly his friend and owner will come out. He worked here and always took the little one to work, after which they went home together. But the boy died in the war.

The dog instantly reacts when you say "Lyoshka", "Lyokha"... I asked what the boy's name was.

Oleksiy Savranskyi.

Running in search. And so. Came across the message:

"On April 18, 2023, soldier Oleksiy Viktorovych Savranskyi, born in 1999, died while performing a combat mission. The hero died in Donetsk region.

Ladyzhinsk village council".

Then they found Oleksiy's Instagram with photos.

The dog is just one Ukrainian Khatiko.

When you drive along the Odesa highway, there is a UPG gas station near the village of Ladyzhynka (beyond Umanya). You can find this dog here. He is kind, and even flatters. But in the eyes there is total sadness and... hope that now his Lyoshka will come out and they will go home together as usual, and work again tomorrow...

Such is her loyalty and unconditional love.

Ps. People, please. Friends/relatives take care of the dog. We do not call for his rescue. This is a story about the loyalty of an animal to its master.

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[–] medgremlin@midwest.social 24 points 1 month ago

Things like this just hurt my heart in a way that nothing else does. I've lost patients plenty of times, both from expected/long term illnesses, and from sudden things like cardiac arrest, and I can wall those out fairly well....but the little reminders of the people, pets, and communities that feel the absence of that person are much harder to ignore. Once someone is gone, that's it for them, but the grief of those they leave behind continues in a way I can do nothing to help or heal.