If This Blockade Can Play a Role, I Am Ready to Stay Here: MoD Employee

On his Facebook page, he wrote: “30 hours in the MoD building. Guys, my fellow countrymen who have blocked the administrative complex of the Ministry of Defense. My grieving compatriots. I am not against you and your demands; it is necessary to continue the efforts to search for our soldiers, officers, and volunteers, to return our captives. In this matter, you are right, and there is no opposing opinion. There cannot be.

We are on two sides of the walls, but we are not in different camps, we are not on opposing sides, we are not in conflicting opinions. Many like me have been here since yesterday. Guys, if my staying here can help, if it can bring back my missing friends, my captured friends, I can continue to stay, stay long. If this blockade can play a role, I am ready to remain.

My compatriots. Guys. I am not guilty for being alive, for having returned from the front and continuing my service. I am not guilty for not being among the missing; I am not guilty. But this post is not about me. In the MoD building, there are hundreds of women, girls, parents and children awaiting their loved ones. There are numerous husbands in the building, whose children are waiting. I know you are also waiting, I understand the grief; our grief is indescribable. But what can I do, what can these people, these women, these parents and children do? What can they do that they are not already doing? What can the deputy director of the rear administration do? What can the military medical administration clerk do? What can the senior specialist of the artillery administration do? They are not the addressees of your rightful demand. They are not on your opposing side.

We are not different; we are not on different fronts. We also mourn, we also feel pain, and we also want this nightmare of finding the bodies of our boys and returning them to dignified soil to end. Guys, my compatriots.”