15-year-old andrii pokrasa became a fire adjuster for the armed forces of ukraine in the first week of the offensive of russian troops in the kyiv region. andrii was the only drone pilot in his village. he launched the drone, found the base of the equipment, recorded the movement of the russian federation military columns, received video on the smartphone screen and transmitted the exact gps coordinates journalists of radio svoboda met with the ukrainian military and andrii. i wanted to buy a motorcycle at first, but my father did not allow it because it was very dangerous, and i decided to buy a drone because i used to go to the carpathians every year, i wanted some extraordinary angle about the fact that the family has a drone. the first week of the full-scale invasion, they wrote in the chat

of local residents with andrii's father. but that evening they did not work, i understood that this was the first work with us and therefore they did not completely trust us . they worked it out andriy launched the drone, received video on the smartphone screen on the map, recorded the exact gps coordinates of the base of the equipment and the movement of the columns and transferred this data to military volunteers and to the chat of law enforcement bots, the honor of the territory was under occupation. the belarusian border, and we simply lacked information about where the columns are currently passing in order to stop their advance to kiev. we

were surrounded by enemies from all sides, and even experienced the pilots could not get to us in order to cover the reconnaissance, and andrey immediately appeared, who turned out to be a very experienced pilot. at that time, there was no electricity in the village. the drone managed to be charged from a generator for a while. later, the military gave andrei a more powerful drone that flies at a distance. up to 7 km from our armor, they were stitched, that is, they showed from the coordinates somewhere that there was a faint movement , it was impossible to identify us. andriy and his father made from three to ten sorties every day, worked in the field a few kilometers from the russian troops you run out, get into the car, you must not forget that the car closes the doors, you have to open them back , because we always had the right. well, if you fire at us, open the car immediately at any speed and jump out and run. they worked like this for about a week, until the russian troops

the kolonshchyna army entered their village, the rafi army, which was stationed in the vysherad, shelled the warehouses near the house of the krasov family. shrapnel flew to their yard and a soldier approached them, saying that for your safety it is better to leave because adjusters can be sought first of all. that is , he and i left on this road, a column of refugees formed in makarov. andriy and his father were again asked by the military to work . we had to check the performance of the ukrainian artillery. we were told what to adjust the fire . they were finished there, the fuel truck broke down there, they were already completely finished, thanks in particular to the worker andrii, it was possible to destroy several bases of the russian army and stop their convoys moving on kyiv is at the work of all the people and andreev, including us,

we managed to stop the columns that were going through borodyanka makarov er through the birch forest to kyiv, in general, they are under the birch tree, all the rest of them styolam well, the enemy ran away, you see, he couldn’t bring his shock units to kiev in order to start andrey is ready to continue to work. victory dreams of shooting from the heights of the landscape of peaceful ukraine in one day, the ukrainians dropped two bayraktars. or it all started with the fact that tv presenter and volunteer serhii prytula, together with blogger igor lychenkov, announced the collection of funds for three fundraisers for the ukrainian military, they set the goal of raising uah 500 million in a week, which is approximately $15 million

. 00 in the morning yesterday and already within a day it was possible to collect money for two bairaktars. prytula showed how notifications were received on the phone about the transfer of money to the watch. it is now almost 7:00 in the evening and it is possible that as of now and i don't know about the third bank, now we will ask serhiy prytula himself, a volunteer, the founder of the charity fund serhiy prytula is in touch with us serhii, my congratulations to you i congratulate you on the third bank of the career no, i am not, in principle, terribly gifted with speed, as we collected on the first two but i got the impression that this such a powerful explosion is the beginning of this project that he is with us in principle. well, i stopped by a little bit because people saw in the morning that there are already two. well, maybe a third one somehow

or how, that is, the amount of income, well, finances of course, it has decreased, i won’t say that it is very categorically critical, but no, no, not as fast as money is being collected today than it was yesterday , but what kind of recovery has now begun in the afternoon, in the sense that the business has finally paid attention en masse to i wrote our initiative today at lunch because these byraktars will really be popular because they are very small. the size of the nats is 5-6 uah, 10 uah, 20 uah, and so on, but i would like there to be 100,000. for example , if these were not exceptions and there is also a trend now we saw that the ukrainian business is medium and large. it started, well, it became more active . how much did we collect? we will raise it somewhere closer to 9:00 p.m. tonight. i can’t

say right now. i think, that is, for 400 million . we don't know yet, but it's still just some incredible story. i'm very glad that uh, our fund is involved in it. well, you gave them a week to collect money for that. you still have time, and you tell sergey. and what's the next plan? how are you going to buy these bycharacters i when they can get to the military, forgive me, but there are certain details, er, negotiations, er, with the ministry of defense and with other stake holders, who foresee that until the actual contracting is carried out, they should not discuss the details of this agreement. okay, then, allow this global question if we talk about the role of volunteers in this war, how large-scale it is and how much it has changed compared to the 14th year, because then you

could also very often hear theses about what the volunteers wore they fed and provided for the military, which has changed dramatically since then, first of all, the amount of donations , that is, the volunteer movement has naturally increased quantitatively , although it was very massive even in the 14th year, but now it has grown many times, and the amount of donations to help the army through the hands of volunteers. well, come on , i collected uah 52 million in 8 years of volunteering in the anti-terrorist operation, er, now in two days, i am tentatively collecting 400 of these and they can to drop half a million euros in 6 hours yes, of course , this is a recent practice and similar actions do not take place there with any regularity, but the very fact that you can collect in a day, as in two

years of previous military fees, this is about something and means something first of all, only about the fact that when the war knocked on every door of ukrainian families, when there was no such thing as a safe territory left in the country, or it flies everywhere everyone understands that this war is not somewhere far away in the donbas, to which you could donate some people get used to cynicism in 8 years, and this is something that needs an urgent solution, and thank god, everyone understands that if we do not support the army, if we stop, god will not prove , the army will stop . seizing the territory, they are waging a war to destroy us as a ukrainian nation, and ukrainian politicians and representatives of civil society often talk about the fact that now ukraine is defending

peace and security in all of europe, and from europe often even you help a lot within the limits of your fund. what can you say about this, the humanitarian wing of our fund, because in addition to the military direction, we also deal with the people who suffered from the russian invasion very closely, fruitfully and significantly e-e cooperates with western donors and western funds and this is medicine and nutrition and baby food, hygiene and everything else. but if we are talking about e-e financial support of e-e ukrainian military volunteers actually by foreigners in europeans or north americans or anywhere, from somewhere, from where, from where, such a phenomenon practically does not exist, because they never had a volunteer precedent like ours, when volunteers en masse stand in for the shoulder of the army and cover those sins that appear because

the army has grown three times in a short period of time and it is really very difficult to provide for everyone at once, because we are not competing, we are a synergy of civil society, volunteers, and actually the ministry of defense, but when a foreigner understands that providing for the army is a government issue, and if it is their state can help our country, this is also at the level of governments, departments, presidents, and the like. and when you say that this is how we drag on, we buy our fund of electronic warfare equipment from australia , they look at you like an alien, because they think that something is wrong with you then this can happen , of course, there are isolated cases of similar donations , but these are people who have been concerned with the ukrainian issue since the 14th year and separately

. are good examples of e-e volunteering specifically in the military direction from our e friends from the commonwealth of nations, that is, the lithuanians actually already set us up a little to the point that we were there for several weeks preparing this action to collect funds for the bayraktars because they did it, journalists initiated the processes and for it took three days to collect it on one bolt, it’s cool, and they gave him this byraktar as a gift, then in the end, it seems that the fact that the citizens of another country support us like this is not understood in detail here, it’s just a matter of taking off your hat and sincerely thanking you as well because of the lithuanians, in previous years we were constantly buying anti-drone guns. that’s why i had such collaborations with them there, well, in a pleasant, good sense of the word, when they covered a third of the budget for such acquisitions, not a plus, the poles help, and with our refugees they work well

and they will add a little to our account, there are zlotys, and when was the last time i went to kharkiv in the kharkiv region? front i ask yaka you have motivation and all these french, italians, americans, they all say the same thing that we are protecting the uh free democratic world from uh this evil what is russia and polya tells me i'm not stupid i understand what if you fall in the next one we will. because you know, poles have a very good memory, they remember very well who divided them three times and he says i don't want russia to come to me in poland, so i'm coming here and trying to help ukraine stop those there are barbarians here

bravo, one more question about volunteering later it will not be about volunteering. over the past month, there have been several such cases when law enforcement officers opened criminal cases against volunteers. about a month ago, the sbu detained x official of the lviv regional state administration and the editor-in-chief of the my.ua site, allegedly on charges that they had embezzled humanitarian aid. there was also a similar case. case in transcarpathia , and they say that this is a targeted attack on volunteers who, they say, have good support in society. attack on volunteers well, just like you, from time to time i hear this information about similar precedents, ah, i did n't understand them, i don't know much about them. i have time to do something like this, i

would be very happy if those people who write to me somewhere in the comments on facebook why don't you understand that some humanitarian aid is being stolen, but why do the same people constantly have to do everything, that is, we also help the army and when the coronavirus it started and didn't turn on when er there are some issues of fighting with some kind of construction mafia and so on, the same people are again in the arena. well, let's not set problems, don't cut it to someone else, but learn to solve the problem on your own, let the law enforcement authorities figure out what happened there, if something happened there is really no criminal liability, let these people bear criminal responsibility because frankly, similar precedents are not massive , but they are very unpleasant. unpleasant prices for the volunteer movement as a whole, and

then the fifth column traditionally used similar things in order to discredit activists, discredit volunteers, so i would like to see fewer such cases, of course, but i just don't quite understand about any reputational persecution, but forgive me i won't continue because i'm not in the material. ok, then here 's the question. do you think after the war, how will ukraine change, what kind of country will it be, this is quite a rhetorical question, and here we can talk with you on this topic for hours. but i will try to be relatively concise. our boys

and girls who protect us also dream of a different ukraine than the one we have seen for many years. i would prefer to see this state that i love dearly , our native ukraine, a country in which people will have a long memory, a country in which er will appear the ability to think critically and stop listening to populists. i would like it to be a state in which there will be a total reform of the education system and our children will read books and go to museums and uh, i would like the monolithic society that we have now, which is a consequence of uh- unity in order to repel the attack of our enemy, so that it does not disappear anywhere and does not evaporate, so that we are not segmented again in our society into some strata that have a regional

shade or compete with each other, well there in some religious issues or something else, what else has always divided me, i don't, i don't want to believe that after such a terrible war, we will not draw conclusions and not be worthy of our motherland, which deserved to be happy with us, the longer it lasts war, the more ukrainians will settle abroad, this must also be realized because it was not just refugees who left , well-educated specialists with children also left in europe, where there was no such thing as a demographic boom for a long time. millions of ukrainian e-e refugees are feeding their societies and this is giving working hands and people are dying here and people are leaving us and in the future we need to be aware that we

will have a huge demographic problem and this also affects the economy and that is why the economy must be rebuilt after the war there will be so much work here after the victory that i don't know what to do and how to call all the ukrainians of the world to come here and help rebuild the state, because those who are left will not be able to do it themselves . we always ask different questions. how did it happen in the south and what happened there in kherson? and how was the preparation there or not, and i very often hear from my interlocutors the thesis, let's do it after the victory. what questions can we expect answers to? well, before, not after the war, we have the right to expect and we have the right to demand these questions from me, so much so that

there won't be enough notebooks to write them all down, but for my inner self uh, i've made up my mind where do i spend kilojoules of my energy and where do i direct the energy of the hundreds of people who are currently working under my leadership in the fund, e-e. i have a question, for example, why a person who failed two years in a row of state defense orders is appointed ambassador to e-e one of the european countries instead of taking it and asking ana , tell me how many bronics did you buy in the 21st or 20th year, dear, but uh, again, we are leaning on the same thing, or we are now totally engaged uh, if you are not with a weapon in hands. then you have a morning get up and think that i should do something good for our army and our defenders, and in the evening think

whether i have done enough. can i do something else tomorrow if there are people who have the desire not only to ask questions, but to seriously dig into the depths of these questions and find answers to them answers, if you have time for this, do it, it’s a god- pleasing thing, as they say, but i personally don’t have the opportunity to be distracted by it right now, plus , as you say, there are politicians in ukraine who remain politicians but the miracle is under during the war, i thought that we all somehow give ourselves a little bit of er. well, the report says that we don't have politicians, we now er have a supreme commander in chief . from who you were before 24.02, did

you have a party or were you going to do it, did you have a high rating or were you below the plinth, we now have a question about the survival of the state as a whole, and this is the most important and most priority thing we have to live closer to sometimes that's all, thank you very much serhiy volunteer, founder of the serhiy prytula foundation serhiy prytula was on radio svoboda thank you very much since the evacuation of seriously wounded ukrainian soldiers from the azovstal plant on helicopters several months have passed and some of these defenders of mariupol have already returned to duty near the front line radio svoboda correspondent taras levchenko met with as a soldier of the azov regiment, callsign gallery when multiplying, despite the fact that he has multiple wounds and incomplete rehabilitation, the azov native works as an instructor and goes on assignments exclusive radio svoboda i will say right away the azov regiment

can be treated as you like, who considers us there because of our tattoos or something else or because of russian propaganda by fascists and nazis, but we tried to help the civilian population as much as possible i am from the city of svetlovodsk kirovohrad region why did you decide at all to go to serve despite the fact that you have a white ticket i understand correctly yes , everything is correct, well, i, well, in civilian life, i was the director of security for the company pochemu pošёl well, i could not afford a moral second choice, i thought that every man who considers himself as a man who considers himself a ukrainian should be and uh, defend his country directly in mariupol. what were you doing? we clearly understood that people had nowhere to get food, that they were hostages of the situation after the next finding of civilians. we had a little gasoline we decided

to take this gasoline to them, since they had some kind of heater that runs on gasoline, when we approached the descent that was going to the side, we stopped and opened fire on the gentlemen from the unfinished five-story building, he was immediately wounded in the hand i told my cossack friend that i was 300. after that , a bullet hit his leg and hit an artery. he turned to me and hugged me tightly. he said that this was the end for him. i said that everything would be fine. this is my friend from my platoon. he is from mariupol himself. his name is igor, unfortunately. he died on march 16. it would have happened as the events unfolded. i received two more field wounds in the leg. as it turned out, the consequences of one of them were that i broke my pelvis. they were shouting something there. my task is that i need to warn my friends who remained in the position at any cost

that there is an enemy here and there. i understood that i had little time because i had five field wounded . then again, i fell. i saw civilians ahead of me. they promised me that they would not take me to the position and not to the hospital. this material can be viewed in its entirety on the radio freedom ukraine channel. well, we have another story of marina radionova from popasnaya with her daughter for the second time. she left her own house because of the war. the first time it happened in 2015, now they found a shelter in the ternopil region, where they were allowed to leave the house , how did they manage to escape, listen i have n't done anything here yet, but inside i'm inviting you now popasna, they all drove carefully 10% imagine watch i saved 10 cats, it is very difficult for me to remember from where because i try not

to think about it, it only covers at night, but during the day i work like this, i try to think about it because it is very difficult when you when your city was destroyed, it is one thing when it was occupied, it was very painful, we thought of lists of prohibited people so that we would not go there, as they wrote, uh, enemies of russia, and collaborators of fascism, because i worked in the theater, there was a group we gave concerts for soldiers, we held on for a long time because we still had hope that the boys will beat us back on march 14. we left when it was already bad, the bomb shelter arrives, a car drives up, one guy says i'm picking up two. he brought a clip of a bread maker. i say my daughter is going. by us i see there, there, it is falling near my window, there are already holes in the door, there is already a hole, the

house is shaking, i am screaming, praying, i am throwing their bag, they are running out of it, and then it dragged like this , it was still snowing, i dragged through this snow, and my heart they grabbed me, my eyes darkened, the academy shakes me and says mommy breathe mommy breathes she breathes and coughs in my panties and here this guy runs and says so you sit upstairs and the two of us this bag upstairs he throws it inside there inside he puts us here we go and how people always eat everything katya is on fire, she is crying, she is hysterical. i am praying. the people got caught in the car very well, and the cats screamed and got out, and there was nothing. i run out with him, look at some of the potatoes, er,

carrots, beets, zucchini, cucumbers, and radishes, potatoes, i have a chachka, and you even know that i threw a big one and it was big and very sprouted. this is how i cleaned it. i threw all the points into the ground, and they left them there . she got along normally, we are like that when in the 1990s, they did this. it was very hungry. you were 14-15, according to the tax office. you were in the 15th. we went to barvenkovo, kharkiv region. there, the greek catholic church gave us shelter. when the boys came in, at first they were very poorly dressed. they were going to school. it's not far from us. well, across the track, i approached them. i looked at them. they were sitting. they were young boys who were chewing crackers. i said, "oh my god, that was it. don't you have anything to eat? mom, they'll bring it to us soon. i ran to the cucumbers in the garden that were there. that was it. " dry

well, she gathered and left. she took some oil. i had some old lard. i fried the porridge. she brought it. well, what happened to her when the war started? our banks were all closed. there was no money. i brought them. one guy says mom tells me a testicle says i have a couple you have a stomach ache i ran to the neighbor's and they were chickens she was so stubborn she was for her she didn't say why i say give me a couple i'll give you money and they gave us two testicles and ran and gave them the testicles i'm moving on, tell me how you can forget it. i'm moving on it's a rut and he's following me and yelling at my back. thank you , mom. when we arrived from periwinkle, i turned on the tv and the screen was filled with his portraits. they are hiding him. it was somewhere in western ukraine. katya and i say that guy, how is it? for more exclusive

stories, watch the radio freedom ukraine channel. well and i remind you to subscribe to social networks on radio svoboda in social networks on instagram telegram twitter facebook where you are comfortable well, svoboda life will return to the air tomorrow my greetings to everyone who is with us yana eva melnyk and together with the editors of yes news will tell you about the most important events at the moment. four people were injured as a result of the morning shelling of chuguyev in the kharkiv region. the regional emergency service reports that two children were among the victims. also, as a result of enemy strikes, a fire broke out in two private houses. the occupiers fired at the sumy region with prohibited phosphorus. the head of the regional administration, sergi , said that hailstones were fired with shells