Ukrainian Mother Buries Son In Carpet In The Backyard After Russians Killed Him

A Ukrainian mother wept inconsolably as she spoke about having to roll her son in a carpet and bury him in the backyard of her home.

Iryna Kostenko and her son, Oleksei, used to live together on the outskirts of Kyiv. The 27-year-old son used to change tires at a garage close to their house before he lost his life in a brutal Russian attack on March 10.

In an interview with BBC, Iryna was captured walking into her son’s room and showing the damage caused by the Russians as they bombed their village. The mother also pointed toward a shallow grave outside the house and said that's where she buried her son.

The grief-stricken parent said she is "all alone" now after Russian soldiers killed her only child.

“The pain is so bad,” she said in the interview, according to news.com.au. “Now I am all alone. My son was young, only 27 years old. He wanted to stay alive.”

Iryna became a mother at the age of 18 and now dreads having to live the rest of her life without Oleksei. The bereaved mother said Oleksei served in the army but had plans of working at the local garage.

The mother fled her house after Oleksei was killed and the Russian soldiers took over her house. Russian troops retreated from the area and reportedly left last week.

Following her son’s death, Iryna had to retrieve her son’s body from the street. She brought him back to her house in a wheelbarrow and buried him in the backyard on her own without a coffin.

“I covered the grave with a blanket to protect it from dogs,” the mother added. “He isn’t in a coffin. I had to roll him in a carpet.”

When Iryna was asked whether she questioned the Russians about why they killed her son, she said in the interview: “(The Russians) were in jeeps with guns. They killed him and fled. How can I talk to such morons?"

"I want them dead. I want their children to lie like my son," she added.

Iryna clutched a picture of Oleksei from his childhood and cried as she said: "This is my love, my sweetheart."