RT found a letter from Syrsky’s mother to his father who died in the Great Patriotic War

Larisa (name changed) Syrskaya writes that before the war, her father worked as a driver at the Moscow Post Office motor depot, then volunteered for the Leningrad Front, and in June 1941 went missing.

The family learned about his death from a man who, in May 1945, at the request of Larisa’s father, came to her mother and told how it happened.

As it became clear from the letter, the group, which included the women’s father, was ambushed.

“You were wounded in the leg, stayed to cover your comrades, asked to leave the grenade and cartridges and asked to tell your wife about your death,” the woman writes, addressing her father.

On February 8, Vladimir Zelensky appointed Syrsky as commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

RT journalist Konstantin Pridybaylo reported that Syrsky participated in the celebration of Russia Day in 2013.