Father, partner of Israeli killed in Ukraine dispute burial place amid danger

Efforts to retrieve the body of an Israeli man killed in Ukraine and bring him back to Israel for burial have run into difficulties, Channel 12 news reports, with the father of Roman Brodsky and his partner unable to come to terms on the matter.

Roman Brodsky, a father of two and DJ who had been living in Ukraine with his family, was killed by Ukrainian soldiers who shot at a convoy trying to escape the country.

In a phone call between Roman’s father Yafim and his partner Mila facilitated by the Magen David Adom rescue service, Yafim asks Mila to bring his body to Zhytomyr and MDA offers to help transport the remains.

But Mila tells him that there’s too much shooting and she doesn’t know if moving the body is possible. “I don’t know if I can get out of here alive or manage to bring him there. They are shooting like crazy,” she says.

She also chafes at his suggestion that Roman’s body be brought to Israel for burial, even after his parents offer to take her into their Ashdod home.

“I’m not going anywhere. I want to suggest he [be buried] here,” she says, to which he responds that her country is being destroyed.

She agrees to call him again to discuss “if I get out of here alive.”

The details of the call cannot be immediately confirmed.

The Foreign Ministry, which usually aids in repatriating remains, said earlier it had informed the family of Brodsky’s death.