'Mama, This Is So Hard': Ukraine's UN Ambassador Reads Out Russian Soldier's Final Text

Ukraine's ambassador to the United Nations (UN) read out what he claimed to be the final text exchange between a Russian soldier and his mother, where the soldier shared his worry about his comrades "bombing all of the cities" and "even targeting civilians" in Ukraine.

During an emergency session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) held Monday, Ukraine's representative Sergiy Kyslytsya read out the heartbreaking text in Russian, which was reportedly obtained from the dead soldier's phone, according to New York Post.

In the text exchange, when the soldier's mother inquired her son about his location to send a care package, the soldier reportedly replied, "I just want to hang myself now," before telling his mother where he was deployed.

"Mom, I’m in Ukraine. There is a real war raging here. I am afraid. We are bombing all of the cities, together. Even targeting civilians," Kyslytsya continued reading the soldier's message in Russian.

"We were told that they would welcome us, and they are falling under our armored vehicles, throwing themselves under the wheels and not allowing us to pass. They call us fascists. Mama, this is so hard," the soldier reportedly told his mother moments before dying.

"Very clear parallels can be drawn with the beginning of the Second World War and Russia's course of action is very similar to that which their spiritual mentors from the Third Reich employed on the Ukrainian land 80 years ago," Kyslytsya said urging the representatives at the UNGA to think about the lives lost in Ukraine.

According to videos posted on Facebook by Ukrainian Security Services showing captured Russian soldiers, many of them said they were unaware of the invasion and believed they were only taking part in military exercises in Ukraine.

Ukraine's officials have started a Telegram channel "Find Your Own" showing the videos of captured Russian soldiers and has set up a hotline service called "Come Back Alive from Ukraine" where family members of captured Russian soldiers can contact the officials.

Meanwhile, the families of several Russian soldiers who were captured in Ukraine reportedly said they were unaware that their sons were involved in the war and came to know about the deployment through the videos posted online.

According to Oleksiy Arestovych, an adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, approximately 3,500 Russian soldiers have been killed or injured during Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine as of Saturday.