“I just left school, where we awarded both Islam and Artyom. We met with their families and talked. The guys are great. And it is important that the feat of such young heroes does not go unnoticed,” said RT’s interlocutor.
The Children's Ombudsman added that the boys committed a heroic act, despite what they said was a feeling of fear.
“Can you imagine a crowd of 100 people? You have to somehow gather them all and say, let's go. They say: “We screamed throughout the entire hall. They said that you were going in the wrong direction (-
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). There’s a dead end, we’ll get you out.” That is, they took this entire crowd outside to a safe place,” Lvova-Belova noted.
She also paid special attention to the fact that both heroic teenagers are from large families.
“The guys take care of the younger ones, take care of their family, and at the age of 15 they already started working to help the family. And, of course, it seems to me that we need to take into account that, after all, large families raise such heroes, because responsibility for loved ones appears at a young age,” concluded RT’s interlocutor.
Earlier, the press secretary of the Council of Muftis of Russia, Gulnur Gazieva, confirmed information about the upcoming awarding of 15-year-old Islam Khalilov, who saved people from Crocus.