The next day, her mother found out that Yulia was missing. A friend of her daughter called her and asked if the girl had returned home.
– Only on the 30th at three in the followingnoon her friend called me, whose boyfriend came from the army, and asked: “Aunt Natasha, do you know where Yulia is? We were walking, and she left us, so far we can’t get through to her.” I asked her where they were walking. She said that in the Birch floodplain. And here I started shouting into the phone: in which Birch floodplain? What were you doing there? I already had a tantrum, Natalya recalls.
Yulia’s boyfriend, according to her mother, did not call her himself. She dialed it herself following a call from her daughter’s friend (the dialogue is approximate, restored from the memory of Natalya Rozova):
– And I’m going to the house.
– Where is Yulia?
– And Julia ran into the forest. I searched for it for a very long time and did not find it. So I’m going home to see if she’s back.
