i didn't want to take her, because she was young, and i was 18, i was 18, on october 22 i sign a contract at 6 pm and on october 30 i turn 19, the women were gathering to be sent, and when the commander tells me, like, let's go, i say no, i say, i'm staying here, i say , i'm with the boys, i'll be here, that's all, and vika immediately says, i'm like that to me too, i'm with you, that's it... in general, the rest of the women were evacuated to more quiet places, and we stayed further. how did the enemy carry out offensive actions, what was the balance of forces? you know, in combat documents, the ratio of forces and means should have been one to three, but i believe in my opinion that the ratio was at least 1:5, er, yes, the enemy was well armed. both the equipment and the available

personnel, there was a sufficient number of tanks, there was a sufficient number of armored combat vehicles, such as bmp, bmp-1, bp2, bmp-3 there, yes, which made it possible to rapidly advance in certain areas of the front, on it's a pity, we have such reserves and such weapons, well, we didn't have such... how did you move from pavlopol to mariupol and from pavlopol when they broke through the front line in the er volnovar direction, well, everyone understood that it was necessary to turn the flank, er, and on the order of the senior commander , a maneuver was made, well, in this way... they were moved closer

to the city of mariupol, but this is not there was a city of mariupol, there were still some intermediate positions that had been prepared in advance, i know, well no, i know that when we were retreating, well, they kind of trailed us with fire, yes , yes, well , when the officers came there, some - this one, they told how it is now where hard he was sitting in the shelter, something broke and a piece of the child fell on him, and there he was, his sweat was so bad, well, in general, we ate him like this, on march 10, 2022, an airstrike on the city center. look,

funnel, like yesterday at the maternity ward. i , too, when they already gave me the instructions, that i was going to the second company as a combat medic, well, they also gathered some of them there, i had a little medicine there, there was some kind of backpack , so we went out there, there was one, i don't know what it's called correctly, like tericon type, and... we had an eye position, we looked at the movement of equipment and the like , when we were sitting on the terekon, we look, their plane takes off, drops an aerial bomb, the second one follows it, aviabbu like this, like this, like that , so, so, so, so, everything was there , everything was on fire, everything, there, well, well, that is, i don’t know at all how those civilian people survived there, it’s just, i can’t even guess, how did they survive there, because there...

everything was so noisy, so much, i did not understand why, if the brigade was already on on the territory of the ilyich plant, it was our job to bomb that mariupol, ours, they are stupidly on the squares, and you look and you understand, but in a few days there will be our square, everything and for what, that is, they saw that we were retreating, why did they clear that entire territory, well , they stupidly tore everything up, it is still unclear to me. there is a lot of what the propaganda says about the people in mariupol, no, no, the people from mariupol brought us medicines themselves, that's it, they gave you that, they gave you a goal, they gave you food, as they were the predominant enemy forces, our units began to retreat little by little to mariupol, then the ilyich plant, well, at that time there were three battalions in the brigade, it was the 501st separate marine infantry battalion, the marine infantry battalion, and the 501st

and the marine infantry battalion, they already held directly inhabited poruns in front of ilyich, on yelich there were brigade styles, there were artillerymen, the command post of the brigade, well, in short, we were more or less quiet until march somewhere, until the fifth or sixth of march, somewhere yes, then the first an airbomb fell on the lich's territory towards you, i think. yes, it was an unforgettable feeling, to be honest, it’s the scariest thing that can happen in life, it’s probably aviation, it’s just, i remember,

we even stood in a hangar once, it turns out, we had a bunker and a hangar next to it, where our equipment was , and in short, everyone starts, everyone who was there starts to quickly move to the bunker to... he shouts at me: "vika, run, run." i stand, in short, i had a can of pepsi here, i remember, and there was a cow stick. i just hung the machine. and i stupidly like this, i start slowly , i look there, like this they run. in short, i'm standing pepsi , damn it, you're leaving the ship, i ran almost to the bunker, and then i think, but i have to, in short , yes, and i then we flew into the bunker there, then, there was a second shot from the tank, then ours were early drivers who were responsible for the equipment. you talked about the fact that you were able to deliver ammunition to your battalion of the 36th brigade there, and how did it finally work out, under what conditions did it happen, i

was already on the training ground, i got a call general belotiyskyi, the chief of staff of atu donetsk, said that buses from mykolaiv will arrive now. well, that is, they will bring people for the brigade, well, reinforcements, which mariupol is already in a ring, let's say, and there was only one road, it was through volodarske, it was possible to get there, well, accordingly, he said that a column would come, they would need issue ammunition, find out the order of battle there, you are older and you are going to mariupol, you were personally in this column, yes the first one. but it was very dangerous, so what to do, our work is like this, moreover, the price of the question was my brigade, i don’t know who would have behaved differently, well, as a native of this brigade, i simply couldn’t behave differently, and

i didn’t even have any questions there , that it is safe, dangerous there, i have already taken care of everything, well, everything was researched in me, i understood what i was going for, where it was necessary to read the danger, then... it was taken into account and, well, almost without problems, i delivered people to the front , a couple of times there the column came under tank fire, but it was certain to increase speed and slip by there are some dangerous areas, you can do all this, what dates did it take, it was march 13, march 14 this road was already cut off, i left mariuppol around three o'clock in the morning. er, on march 14 at 11 o'clock in the afternoon, i know that a convoy went there, also took ammunition to mariupol, the convoy was already shot, but since march 14, the city of mariupol, the entire mariupol garrison was already completely surrounded, how many people

are you brought there? approximately 670 people, how long were you there and holding the defense? well, until april 12. from march 1 to april 12, well the situation was critically difficult, let's put it this way, but at first it was there for a week, 10 days, well , it was possible to stay there more or less while there were old stocks of ammunition, we provided medical products, but you understand. that every day it got worse and worse, worse and worse, there was no replenishment of all this, so it was difficult , but everyone held on, and everyone knows why

they held on, it was difficult, yes, there were wounded, there were dead, but the war without there are no victims, well, there are no victims. that's why everyone understood it, everyone stood, everyone fought, well, if only including military personnel, i hoped for the best. but we understood that what was happening in ukraine depended on us, who were in mariupol, because everyone knew that russia had withdrawn a very large number of military personnel and armored vehicles to mariupol, and aviation, which, in principle, was both from russia and and... the autonomous republic of crimea, which worked around mariupol, because all this that

was around mariupol, it could work and advance on the territory of ukraine, well , the mainland, which was not yet surrounded, so we had only one way out, it was to hold on . mariupol - it's like that, you know. and the heart of this war for today, there are discounts on anticataral 20% in the pharmacies of plantain pam and oskad, there are discounts on hepargin 10% in the pharmacies of plantain ban and oskad, there are discounts on lactial 10% in the pharmacies of plantain pam and oskad. the 93rd separate

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approximately how many people were there at the lychee factory? well, about 2,500. which one is for you personally

was there the most difficult moment? when there are wounded servicemen, and there is nothing to help them, when you have an enemy in front of your nose, and there is nothing to hit him. such moments with whom you had time to talk there on ilyich, already with the brigade commander and colonel boroniuk, then we who live in crimea know each other quite well, and even after... leaving, well, after the annexation of crimea with the colonel, well, in the winter with your comrades, there most of the brigade is, like my trainees of my battalion, chiefs of services, there are deputies and all sorts of other things, well of course, he was glad to see everyone, they were glad to see him, he at least lifted the mood there somehow, well, as he could, what words did you say to them

when you were leaving, that it would be good. so that they don't forget who they are and where they're from, and if you're going to fight, then you have to fight it the way you were taught to hide yourself in there, sit in bunkers, because you're afraid, there's no way out of the situation, you have to defend yourself so that the enemy i spoke for you myself and respected you myself, even realizing that there are quite a lot of incoming enemy forces, let's say this, you will not fight, you are not for... you will earn respect, even from the enemy, he will also understand this, he saw that there is a mountain of people, but they will fight and this commands respect, no matter what, the commander was in constant communication, communication was permanent, because this is our line of responsibility, our unit, the 36th brigade , took the mariupol hospital with them and

it was impossible to leave the wounded to fend for themselves, so the unit remained there with these wounded. with military families, with civilians, with women, with children, well, that's how it turned out, maybe two meters pass, and you're one of those two meters , you cross over people, you step over them, there were so many people, a lot of people put the ring down, it got narrower, it got narrower, then it got narrower , then it was nothing, then it was put on its side , covered with a blanket, everything. not a single helicopter ever landed at the factory, everything that happened landed in the port and at the port, there was no such thing at the factory, and once or twice the brigade

received help, we will says so, which was transferred to... azovstal, but it was meager, meager even compared to what was transferred to the azovstal plant, so yes, there were , but in fact no one saw them, also the evacuation of three wounded or dead, yes, it also happened, but not from the ilyich plant, somehow it turned out that way, what's more we have...

i dried it on a fine grater and ground it by hand, made it like ala flour, added a little bit of some kind of badychki, water, and i had tortillas for them, that's how i made them tortillas, they ate, i ate i say, i say, i don't cook such bad things at home, understand me correctly, i say, but we have to eat, even if that's how we ate then, the most critical moment when it became... it was clear that we couldn't go on like this, what options were considered, and there was only one option, it was a breakthrough either to the azovstal plant or in the direction of greater ukraine. which option did you choose? well, then it so happened that we

had no connection at all, and there was a little distance between us. with whom i am in mariupol, there was no interaction, so i personally, er, i chose the breakthrough option, well, i understood that this, you know, is one chance to make it, er, but yes, it was difficult, i had it was difficult, it was difficult for my servicemen, but everyone unanimously accepted yes , the decision, i think not every serviceman will go to this decision, well, when you don't communicate with him, when you don't support him, when you don't have an understanding. between servicemen, when you don't have, well , a military family, as i said before, eh, but everyone is one, and there some stayed because

of their morally unsustainable qualities, but the rest were all for them, there was a task that they had to comply, there had to be a convoy, we all had to leave, that's us got into that equipment, realized that there was a letter. that's it, that's it, that's the understanding , that's it, we sat down, we prayed, and we were already leaving the bunker, we, well, before that, we went out there with my husband, the goat is sitting, the smart people agree, i'm 5 years old, 5 years old, my goat. if you don't want to, if you want to surrender, i'll surrender with you, if you don't want to, then we'll go for

a breakthrough, i say, let's go for a breakthrough, i have all the main mass, that's all that i have in my head it was, i want to see my child, i want to see my mother, i just want to go home, so you can see what they are alive, whole and that everything is fine with them , well, i will tell you briefly, they went out in the direction, in the north direction, and in small groups, which was not noticeable to the enemy, with the task of going to the rear, well, to the rear of the enemy, and that was it, what we could do was inflict maximum losses on him there between the positional space, well, i will say this, from my battalion , the most... people came out of the first cream, yes, they broke through, got out, and after a week or two they started active operations again, only already on the

other hand, that is, the output took somewhere on average about a week, no, more, more, yes, about two weeks, well, if you look at the map like that, then the length of the route. well , 130 km in a straight line, but we all understand that no one went in a straight line, so when i talked with my servicemen, after half an hour, some had walked 270 km, some had walked 250, well, that is not a very short way, that is probably the most frightening thing if they see our columns, our column alone, they will immediately throw the damn thing there because it was so, so it was, yes. it was, we, in short, then plunged in and already they started to leave, we are leaving the hangar, here i am looking at the sky, and it is already a little, a little bit more visible, here i am looking

, i see how in the distance an airship is flying and these fireflies are flashing, i think, a pipe our exit was covered, that's how we saw the airplanes and understood, yes, well, we, in short, in short, we passed, there is not even a jump and 10 kilometers. when this air bomb was falling, i heard that it was falling somewhere, in short, and we somehow got there, my stove stuck to the building

in such a way that somehow the damn thing would open up there, there is such a there was a cuvette, and that's all, i just hear that it 's flying, the sensations, well, we don't convey them, in short , everything turns inside out like that, and even you are so petty against this, this is a force that, how - will hit? and you can’t do anything at all, you can damn it, lower your silhouette as low as possible and somehow ask yourself, damn it, we’re thinking there, ask god to somehow save your damn poor soul, how did you all go out personally in a group that consisted of about 10 military personnel, yes, but i was going out, let's say so inside battle orders, well, but how did... home was a bit difficult, can you tell at least a little about the experience of polonius?

well, you know, experience, the experience of captivity, i don’t even know how to answer this question, well, it only allows a serviceman to rethink his life, did the enemy know who you are, yes, after all, i think... for for a week, in two , they completely listened to us , they completely understood where everyone was, especially since there were military personnel who were taken prisoner, well, who, no matter how you want it, but one, the second, the third will say something, so yes, it it was known who i was and in which direction

i was, whether it was used...

there from a machine gun, from a machine gun, there from such a small-caliber one already, well, where close combat could already begin, when we left, we went out for a long 8 days , 260 km, and from the prescribed 60, i kept silent on purpose, by the way , yes, it is 200, that we traveled 267 km, we went to the zaporozhye region, no, i’m sorry, not to zaporozhye, the most ridiculous thing would be at the end, guys, be careful there is a mine, and we are like that, but nothing, you have already passed, how strong is their propaganda, what when they understand adequate, er

, hear adequate solutions, er... er hear some adequate stories, they don't believe it, saying that it's a production, it's all specifically to show it to us there, us there, in them it's just that the propaganda is very strong, which er, well, how many, how many people did i see there , or not. there is nothing adequate human, well, how much is it all for 8 years of war, for how long it has absorbed them all, then i hear like stains like a sound like a rodeika, they give us signals that you and we see you, we hear you, and we we're still going let's go, and here is just a little guy from the bushes , who are you, and where are you from, we say we are the first separate battalion that came out of mariupol,

run, come in, come in, in short, it was the 68th, yes, the 68th brigade, and they advanced like this in landing, and there they have, like, well, really loans and everything is good, water for everyone , a pack of cigarettes for everyone, in short for the boys, well, in general , just that they accepted, after all, i just said good evening, that’s all, my god, we were ready to kiss the ground, this this, this, it was, it's just, it's not to describe, just not to write, one idea that you survived, passed this the whole thing... that's all you saw, that in general, well , i don't know how it was possible to survive, how many people from the brigade finally got out of the encirclement, let's put it in order, there were approximately, well, approximately 186 people, these are those who left on foot , about a dozen men died somewhere, probably the rest are in captivity, and that's it... thank god,

i got better a little.