army, because i remember that they witnessed the ninth of may out of inertia, but they already knew clearly that they would defend ukraine, what ukraine is. the 30th brigade, which is stationed in volyn, has long been a professional military unit, a separate mechanized brigade that has certain traditions, they fight with armed forces... they have been resisting the enemy since 2014, and it is time to give them an honorary title. oleksiy rudenko, employee of the department of military symbols of the office of the commander-in-chief of the armed forces, heraldic artist, as part of the volunteer of the new army group participated in the development of the new identity of the armed forces. since they are based in novohrad-volynskyi, which very recently got its historical name zvyagil again. these are all territories without separate possession. princes of ostrozki, the princes

of ostrozki were called the uncrowned kings of ukraine and russia, and the first among their equals, of course, is prince konstantin ivanovich ostrosky, who is the founder of the ostrozka academy and a distinguished commander. of course, his most famous act of war is the defeat of the moscow army in the battle of orsha 1514 year. we took part in this battle. and ukrainians, and ancestors of current belarusians, and poles, and lithuanians, this is very important, plus specialists from the west. the coat of arms of the ostrovsky princes was traditionally in a red field, but volyn is a territory that is marked by the fact that the ukrainian insurgency appeared there. 1942. we understand that it is actually red and black.

the symbolism is not upivsk, but ounivsk, there is a difference, but since the members of oun formed the constituent parts of these units of the upa, it was decided to emphasize this red and black gamut, red is volyn, the princes of ostroh, black is revenge and land. on the sleeve insignia, it is a red and black open shield, on top of which appeared... the ostroga sign of the ostrovsky princes. a brigade that has an honorary name can have its own motto, its own name. and we liked that the princes of ostroh, as true uncrowned kings, subscribed to god's will of the princes of ostroh. we took the first part of this motto, deigration. by the will of god , the winners. we laid down such a meaning, and this is

a field option, simplified, muted, and here is the basic version, the nature of the arrangement, the stars, individual details exactly repeat the true beginning of ostrozhsky, which we have the opportunity to even hold in our hands, here is the enlarged image of the seal itself, it is quite tiny, it is a small seal. but it's silver, and here we see the same symbol of the spur and the star in the middle, do you feel that this has an effect on the personnel on the well of course, i see that well he went in, let's just say to everyone, the battalions stopped doing their separate chevrons, that is , it was received precisely with such respect, experts have hit, we are at full scale.

the invasion with the guys decided if we would create some kind of gift for servicemen and for friends, in general for our battalion, you had something that there is no other, and we decided that the battalion seal itself with the battalion number, it would be something that stood out, for example b us among other servicemen, we pledged. the same morality is that it should be worn only on the bottom, on the right hand, so that when giving a military salute, everyone could see which unit and which military unit you were from. the combat path of the brigade began with the beginning of the russian invasion in march 2014. at that time, the 30th separate mechanized brigade was one of the few combat-capable units capable of giving a decent blow to the enemy. the 30th separate mechanized brigade, like all the armed forces of ukraine, on march 1.

in 2014, it was brought to a higher level of combat readiness and began to perform tasks in the area of ​​the administrative border with the autonomous republic. crimea in the area of ​​the settlements of the kairk pond to block the administrative border, prevent advancement so-called green men deep into the territory controlled by ukraine. there are the first military personnel who stood near crimea, they stood in the region where i served and lived. for me, they were like an active person, the first thing to do is to help our servicemen and... that's how i stayed in the 30th brigade as a chaplain. the kherson region, well, it’s the steppe, it’s almost in the palm of your hand, you can’t see, not having normal aviation there, modern communication, everything, that is, we lost to the russians in everything

, there was a russian ship, for example, standing there, and in guys there was one mortar on the shore, which should have repelled this er... ship there some military boat, but the motivation was so high that they were ready to fight with this mortar against this military boat, but not without doubts, we were still standing then under the chiplinka and russian helicopters , they made such provocations, they also flew to positions in the kherson region, until, by the way, the 30th brigade fired the first shot in... pointed the guns, fired a warning shot, after that the russian helicopters stopped flying in khersonsk region, it was also important that no one officially gave the command, it was the initiative of the officers, because they constantly said that you are holding back, holding back, since in crimea,

the 30th brigade was one of the first when it went to the crimea, they they also began to make maneuvers against the maneuvers of russian servicemen. which, for example, in the summer of the 14th year entered 20 by 7 kilometers, kilometers of the kherson region, further violating the border, and it was the 30th brigade that made such maneuvers that they moved back to the crimean border. in july 2014, the brigade received a combat certificate tasks to perform tasks in... moghilu, which she performed until august 2014. it was during this period that the iconic raid operation was carried out together with the 95th airborne brigade and other units. these were combat operations in the rear of the enemy to stop

his advance and cut off his supplies. we drove for two days in a slush. leonido staltsev, as part of the 30th brigade, took part in hostilities in the summer of 2000. on the 14th and during the battles in the debaltsiv direction in 2015, when we arrived in the brigade, we sat down and let's go so that you understand, none of the soldiers knew what we were doing, where we were going and what our mission was, they said one thing, when you are going to be shot at, shoot back when we say to take up the defense, take up the defense when we say, that we are breaking through, we have to go there, well, that is, everything in fact, for me it is... there was always a story about the fact that, well, it is scary, necessarily, but i caught myself feeling that when hryniuk was with us, he rode with us on bmp, kombat, in general, this is a constant raid story, this is a huge convoy along the russian border , while clearing populated areas there, he falls into

ambushes, but at the same time, my commander ota is always with us, he never sat down somewhere in the back or something else, for which he was constantly paid by kombat, because... kombat says: you are certainly a good man, but if you are killed in two hundred, then your monkeys, who will look out for them, but one way or another, the commander had his own vision, he was awarded the hero of ukraine for the fact that he personally destroyed several bmps and an enemy tank and destroyed a certain number of personnel. special battle, it was when we had already passed saur mohyla itself, stepanivka. and we can say that our battalion has already almost been surrounded by two very powerful groups between the settlement of krasnyi luch and antarktsit, there were also russian paratroopers from moscow, and plus those they recruited there from the locals, well,

we have up to 40 there people, and there he drove up to wyzik, and in our uniform. the guys came out and started talking about something there, and they said everything in ukrainian as it should be, well, they approached our guys like that and took their respect. one of the captives was returned to us in the evening, he began to say that we should surrender , these separatists were walking there, shouting the names of the company commander, surrender, we know everything, well , the guys and i gathered there , and we said, what kind of surrender and what will he say to us at home, even if we are exchanged, succeeded now and, for example, you will be released alive. then there will be a conversation among the other brigades that the guys surrendered, they were released, everything is fine, we

didn’t sign any agreements, we remained standing, and then the command us sent help, they made corridors for us , the second battalion made a corridor for us, so the exit story was planned so well that we did not suffer a single loss, not a single person from the ba... btgr is not a battalion, it is a battalion tactical group, it is a small army , and it is necessary to withdraw this army from the encirclement, understanding that where you will enter, in any way, and he withdrew in such a way that in such groups, this is a story about tactics, strategy and the ability to plan , any movements in such a way that suffer minimal losses, and he did, unfortunately, during the exit, two soldiers of the second battalion were killed, who... had our corridor. everything that happened in the summer of 14th year is all

a story about nonsense. there was no contact line, there was donbass and there was russia, but we understood that there was already a type there. and we made roadblocks on google at night. we asked google how to make a paired block post correctly, so that one does not clean up the other. in accordance. like, every person who would have been with us at that time, well, this is already a person who, for god's sake, well, like with sichkas, everything is definitely fine with them, like, eta the story is not about the sykons, it is a story about the understanding of why we are all here, because we were also greatly strengthened, the first battalion of the 30th brigade at the time of the 14th year was the most combat-ready and prepared battalion of all the land forces of ukraine, i i mean infantry. after the raid, the brigade performed combat tasks in debalka. direction in the following years to the svyatodar arc and nearby settlements. today we are going

to the 30th. now the brigade is being restored and at the same time the process of combat adjustment is taking place. for us it is a great opportunity to talk with the soldiers about the brigade's combat path, especially about the events after february 24. let's say, in a more relaxed atmosphere. and, of course, to see how the preparation process is going. what is more important, firstly, to be able to hold

the defense. oleg, the company commander of the mechanized battalion, joined the brigade in 2020. for this, in other areas, we go through how to properly equip the trenches, and throw grenades, occupy the line, now practice offensive actions, how to advance properly, so that less. still our land it is necessary to win back, not only to defend, but also to fight back. infantry is, roughly speaking, universal soldiers. andrii, chief sergeant of the mechanized battalion. until an infantryman's foot lands on, for example , some ground, it is not considered captured until there are infantrymen standing there. a warrior is probably the person who can destroy fear in himself. ivan, the company commander of the mechanized battalion, fear is in every person, but at

a certain moment it must be rejected from one's life. everything is charging, we are going out for the weekend boundaries hrava, krava, what, the counterattack was repulsed. to carry out a tactical retreat in a more prepared position, a warrior, as they say, well, yes, they are not born, they become them, everyone should take this into their hearts and convey to themselves that, well, if not the measure, then who will? i once went to fight in the 14th year, then i said that it was not my children, but it turned out that now my children are also fighting. on february 24, the brigade met in the east, and the second mechanized and motorized infantry battalion continued to defend the svyatodar arc. units of the first and third mechanized

battalions occupied horlivskyi in march direction. at night, a decision was made to withdraw from the sub... division, awarded the order of bohdan andriy, commander of the khmelnytsky artillery battery of the third degree. the commanders were given an order for the batteries to take up firing positions and... start covering the actions of our infantry, carry out offensives, and we switched to the defense of the settlement of new york, it was somewhere on march 15 or 16, the uav operator reports to us that he saw the type there three columns of equipment opposite verkhniatoretska, one column of 40 units of bmp equipment and tanks, the second column 30 units of bmp and tanks and the third column of 10 oil tanks and we immediately started to go to

the artillery, disperse them from there, we dispersed them there once, they gathered with... we dispersed them a second time and then they went anyway and they are there they broke through, for example , a consolidated stronghold, how could he get 30-40 bmps and 30-40 tanks there, it’s just anriyal, and that’s why they broke through there, and such active actions already began there, and we constantly helped the neighbor on the right by covering there with everything you can. at the same time, fierce battles of a separate tank continued companies in the severodonetsk region. the first time was already after the concussion, that the tanks sat down like that , their hands were shaking a little, but nothing, after that they still left, still shot, still came under artillery fire. kostyantyn, deputy

chief of staff of the tank battalion, was awarded the order of bohdan khmelnytskyi , third degree. in which period was it? what period somewhere closer to march, it was already cold, there was already a little snow, it was cold, and then the task was to destroy two bmps. and the turtle is ready for that, we were already ready, we saw one bmp on the right, we saw the second on the left, the distance was very small, because they fired with a direct shot, there was a distance of 100-200 meters somewhere, we destroyed the right. they left , so it was so unexpected for me, because the first shot and the bmp were not there, it was like a salute, at first it was scary, and then it was like

adrenaline, we drove further and then one run began there, the second, the third, the fourth... and fifth, we then destroyed nine bmps with one tank and many people in the tank, and we took a breather , and very early on march 21, the command arrived that we had to leave, because a very large convoy was leaving, we left, we hear over the tower, just phew, something flew by, already the first rpg or something, and a navigator, that's all, come on, damn it, make a report on us, we 're already being shot at, we don't hear any fighting here. helicopters are flying, aviation is flying, so two tanks leave, one stops, no, well, two stops, but the crew of one runs into the forest, and the other just turns around and on us and i hear such a blow in the turret and that’s it, i just switched off, i came to my senses like this one, i see everything black, i sit, i wipe myself, the first words the new girl says are alive,

she says alive, and this one... immediately you are with me there are no teeth at all, i’ll rub it like this, he ’s still like that, there is, that’s it, yes, and then on the second flight we started burning from above, i immediately let’s get out, open the hatch, but the hatch was sealed to me, i hear, we’re burning from above, that’s it, mechanic he says, i thought there were 200 of you, all of you, dumbass, he says , when i heard your voice, it became so easy for me, the most memorable battles, these were when we were still at the beginning of the war, in... days, the enemy tried to advance in two tanks and the manpower of the dorothy, with a decisive attack by two tanks and under... well, under the cover of artillery, uh, they came in a close attack on our strong points, only when we discovered them, they started to open

fire, the manpower was destroyed by artillery units, my battery was working, hails were working, the so-called 2s1 barrel was working, the tanks then defeated the infantry with the help of the javelin. their attack then was not successful at all, in them, after which we raised the copter, we saw so many corpses, that is , no one came out of there, not all of them lay there, how old are you, at the moment 23 years old, i know... that the president signed a decree to award you with the order of bohdan khmelnytskyi, yes, it was awarded on

knew that we would be awarded in the month of may, it was precisely the battles that were brutal and tough in the turkish direction, on one of the days the enemy tried to advance and gathered some of the landings up to 100 personnel, we quickly discovered the enemy and inflicted a devastating blow, i.e. .. the occupiers were able to leave only 300 landings, only left, then on may 8, on may 8 the enemy. decided to storm our positions, and here they, in short, at full steam, start to go straight to our positions, to the price positions, and just a bunch of people start running out, there from the post,

well, there is a ravine, from such a ravine they start running just after the tanks, our guys there, well, they held on perfectly there, destroyed those two tanks, took three prisoners, there is a pile of honeycombs there in front of the positions, there are up to 30 men just lying there... 12 men stopped two tanks there, well, two tanks, two bmps and up to 60 men of their own composition, and we quite successfully completed the task in the very settlement of new york, our battalion, we can say from the month of march to the end of june, yes what we did there, we came out with 95% contractability. you need to watch indeed in the eyes, if we launched the enemy inside the population of new york. we would have lost, well, no one would have lost as much as we did, well, i know for sure that we would have lost more than half a battalion there, because fighting in a populated area is very difficult, everyone

just performed their tasks effectively, and the third company, yes, fought back there only assaults, and the second company there in general created such conditions that they only tried to get out there somewhere, they immediately shot them there from the terekoni, and the first company... according to which the aviation there simply fired twice a day , you see, we had such a position there, where the guys just to go to the toilet threw smoke and the machine gunner started shooting, because they had to run through that section to go to the toilet and again threw smoke to to return, such were the conditions, the most pleasant thing was that when i was given two anti-tank guns, and we were already leaving the district. i ask them there, well, guys, how are things there, well, there, and they say, it was cool, well, like, i will remember this moment for the rest of my life, and like, the infantry is also cool, there are discounts

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military serviceman with the call sign tarzan. anti-tank joined the brigade with the beginning of a full-scale invasion. we lived in a two-story brick house, when we entered it, it was completely intact, when we left it, there was only half a cellar, that is , everything that was above us was wiped off the face of the earth above us, and then, but then everything was perceived like this , if today , then it is necessary, that is, i am ready, because you know , many here and now who are fighting have such a ... perception of life that we will die anyway, one day we will die anyway, why should we be afraid of this, but we have to to do as much as possible, what we can do, the installation itself is this the missile and the launcher, so we have a missile, there are two types of missiles we have right now, they are class c missiles, fgm 148c, missiles with a range of up to 2,500 km, oh, up to 2,500 m, that would be cool,

yeah. and fgm148e, these are missiles with a range of up to 4 km, usually the javiks go in pairs, but you can handle it alone. this is the eye of the rocket itself, very beautiful, it sees almost the same as a human, but much better. and this baby is ready for battle. enemy equipment can be destroyed. at the same time, russian troops tried to break through the siverskyi donets river, which is near the village of dronivka, and created there are three bridgeheads for the offensive. from our side, their crossing was repulsed by only two tanks and a small amount of artillery. we

were in such a bad situation, the tank does not work, does not go , does not go forward, does not go back, the second tank is also stalled and cannot do anything, and we just sat in the tank, hitting us with artillery, konstantin, tank company commander battalion, joined the brigade in 2020, i was already sitting in the tank, took off the muffler and said, like, that's it, we'll stay here, we had no hope, we calculated the time when the projectile would arrive, well, between the exit, by arrival or between arrivals. 10-15 seconds were needed to drop the combat vehicles and remove the shelter in the nearby landing, and there was also a peculiarity, because if you had to communicate with your crew, that is, everyone was silent, everyone was in a daze, and so was the neighboring tank, they were sitting, they were very frightened, i saw their eyes when i tried to somehow look at the tank...