Reports of people dying in water won't surprise anyone these hot days. But the death of a two-year-old toddler shocked the village of Luchychi in the Ratniv district (Volyn). Maksymko Zh. was playing in the yard in the evening. His mother, who was busy with household chores, glanced at the boy from time to time. Their house stands near a former collective farm pond. Something distracted the mother's attention for a moment, and when she came to her senses, Maksymko was not in the yard. The toddler was searched for about an hour. He was found in the pond. The mother still tried to save him – she raised the alarm, took the child to the intensive care unit of the Ratniv hospital, but in vain. Maksymko was the only comfort of a single mother…