The head of the board of Naftogaz of Ukraine, Andrei Kobolev, told why the Victory Day this year became special for him.

A touching post about his grandfather, he posted on a Facebook page.

"May 9, 2017 for me will be different than all the previous. "All" in the meaning of "without exclusion, which I would remember". At the end of last year, my grandfather, with whom I celebrated this day all my life,. Conscious. And unconscious, as family photo albums show, "he wrote.

Kobolev added that he will not enter into a discussion about whether to celebrate Victory Day.

"And I think not about celebrating / not celebrating, but about regret that tomorrow I will not be in Kiev and will not be able to come to the cemetery where. No. Not true. This is not what I'm sorry about. I regret that I did not find enough time to talk to him when he was alive. Yes, I always found time for May 9 and for his birthday, a little less for other holidays. But the last two and a half years of his life - even less. That's it I really regret about it.

Although, this is irrational, because it is impossible to change, "- wrote the head of" Naftogaz ".

"Find the time to honor the real veterans who are near you. Or not quite close, but you can do it. They do not have much left. And the time remaining will never be enough. It will not be enough for us, "he added..

As reported by the "Observer", earlier Boyko told, what can belittle the significance of May 9.

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