did you leave did you stay in irpin or were you transferred to some other tasks? what did you do next? after this situation, i moved back to irpin because it was impossible to live here, there was no roof, everything went to her, i went back to the teroboron in irpin, in fact i from 24 in february, there was er, in irpinskyi, there was er, teroborone. because i have a lot of friends and atoshniks there, i myself am a volunteer, but from the end of the 13th year of the 13th year, i was on the maidan from the 14th year, er, from the month of june, i started to go to the front line to the guys before that i closed mine business, because it was necessary to help, so i went

to the front lines. well, uh, we delivered food, ammunition, everything that our soldiers needed to all the hot spots. well, being at the front, did you ever imagine that this would come to your house? it's better that i served in the soviet union. well, what were you like? i served. i was called up from lviv. i myself am from lviv. well , leningrad military unit 10,467 . this was a naval unit. it was brought up in 1976. i came in 1979. that's why i came here from lviv i moved because i have all my relatives here. my mother was from here, my father was from the ivankovo

​​district, and so were all my relatives, and i decided to stay here after the army. i was a metal worker . in fact, they were fired from here, and they tried to attack you. answer yes. well, in fact, if you were standing here, if you didn't run away in time, when i was saving, i shot from the fly, i threw the fly, jumped off somewhere at this distance, somewhere 2-3 meters from the gate, and the strong shot left, and i launched three grenades, one here and there and he threw it here and put one for myself, just in case, if the client takes me or they, or together , that is, they were not ready to go to russia as a prisoner

in any case, i realized that i have a house to protect, i was a platoon in front of the house, i went that way, not this way and that way, if i went this way even a shot can be seen as they fired, but my house was saved and i ran to my neighbors, where i gave loans to boys. look, you remembered such a moment. what did you serve in the soviet army? you actually served in the territory of russia. how do you perceive it as a person from the soviet union? which felt on itself maybe part partly these narratives of this propaganda. how do you perceive

what is happening now? you can say, you know, this is the situation when there is a knife in the heart, because at one time, you perceived it as such an apparently big family, the soviet union, the army, you know , there were different people and the wrong time, there were different people, some how did you get to know ukraine ? you know, it’s not hostile, but it’s not pleasant, but some are on the contrary. well, for example, i was already finishing my service myself. from riga that's where ukrainians were treated very well

at that time, and at that time there, i am not afraid to say this word, they called the russians occupiers . what year was it 79-78? well, even at that time, well, regarding the language issue, by the way, you are i understand that you speak ukrainian in everyday life. you are a russian speaker in that video, as i read it all over the internet. you also speak russian with such good logic. you know who praises our servicemen, and here, from time to time, i have heard russian speakers with e -e words that you have changed now, in terms of language attitude, you understand, during this war , a lot of people have recently started, even russian-speakers have started to speak

ukrainian, of course, i have a little bit and they narrow badly, it’s because, uh, i have almost teeth after chernobyl no, it was also there when chernobyl blew up, it also took people away, but it was there for a while, so it was not treated, and now it appears a little bit , well, what do you think, should society in ukraine become ukrainized now, well, you know it it should be like that it should be because uh take other countries there they have their own language in each state valentin please tell me about the reconstruction of your home, what has already been done and the waiter, this is all being done house

roof uh volunteers from america helped to do it and also the wiring of the window was installed by the buchansk council. now he announced it and now i’m rubbing a little against the construction wall for my code. i need heating. i probably need to get into a loan. because money was actually applied for. here is the program in action. where can i get it ? record the damage to your house, submitted some applications for assistance in reconstruction, well, i submitted an application to the buchansk council, i went to the applications and wrote well, you know, most people start

taking loans and do it themselves because the government ca n't just say about it, but hmmm, let 's talk about your family you have relatives who live in russia. and how are you with them ? do you keep in touch now? did they respond to what is happening here ? my cousin from lviv said that my sister wants to contact me. she lives in moscow. i asked if i could give her a phone number. i gave her a phone number, but she hasn't called yet. it's been about a month or two. brad voorudny lives in vizhevsk. after those words, what he said, i'm with him, even he. i had it recorded on

my phone, i deleted it. and what did he say? well , my dear brother, he is like that, he lives. i took a video and i was outraged by those words . even though he was here and in this house, he saw it all. all the streets, this is our family, well, it was family. he said that it was all a fake, that i did it fake, you are 64 years old, yes, that's all. and what did you answer? i didn't answer anything , only my brother didn't answer. i couldn't communicate with him. well, what do you think, will there ever be a time or will it come when we start communicating with our friends, acquaintances and relatives again? who live according to periodicals, as they say, it

may come but it may not come soon, only when there are real scum who zombify people, especially in russia, you are in ukraine, there are those who succumb to these tv zombies. one shot through from that side they shot at me and the exit was all the way through this house from the other side the windows were all shot through completely, they are now new, the heating pipes were broken, the pipes were completely

broken, the batteries were thawed because then there were frosts, the ceilings were all there were, but they were hung, everything had to be raised and redone , but since money had already been spent on it . how was it calculated? oh, you know about the windows. i can’t tell you exactly one roof only cost 28,000. they didn't hurt us. well, that's not counting human life, you know, i wanted to ask you after the events here on your street, after the russian troops were already knocked out of kyiv region, you continued to help volunteer here anyway, and as far as i know you two hundred people were taken out of the surrounding

settlements, was there any story that you remember? what shocked or impressed you the most? you understand, well, i can't get used to it, and the guys with me were young, they traveled, they couldn't stand what they were seeing there were such cases that you know, i'm somehow used to it, and they couldn't, but there were such cases at caravan gala, we took our boys, i'll let it be. maybe it wasn't necessary to say it, but i'll say we took our boys. even more brutality towards them appeared where the occupiers were taken without their heads, the head of the second

hand was blown up, for what i would like to say that these are not the ones who are going, for what money, or where they were pawned, who was pawned, he can easily go over to our side and surrender. and those who really is going to destroy that their investigation it happened to me that they did not have what i predicted. with whom and what i faced in donbas. what is there for me to forgive? it is a 32-caliber on the wall on the other side. they thought that i ran there and started shooting, and the 32- caliber i went through it, i broke through the wall here and

got into the kitchen, into the second wall, i got there, and then i fell into the sink and damaged it a little, got burned . and that's all. you can imagine what would have happened to me if i had won. do you believe in ukraine now? i believe, i believe in what, and i believe. because many, many young people went to defend ukraine the majority left those who recently got married and

had children. they have some responsibility and they understood that if they do not protect their children, their parents, their acquaintances, acquaintances, relatives, then here will come an uncontrollable victory for ukraine, what will happen, you know what this victory will be like, i count as it was our borders should remain as long as they were before, not now, but as soon as possible, then ukraine will be ukraine, and we don't need someone else's. we don't go to anyone and we don't want to go. such a thought. thank you for the interview. may there

always be peace on your way. you said good and peace. you know that i wake up in the morning. no, the car is in such a condition that i write that he is mine. until now, this is childhood. here is that

little maximochka, my sunshine. mine is here specially collected all his photos. this is him with the children, by the way, this is the last photo when he came from the carpathians before the war itself . we walked and walked on bicycles, this is what he looks like. after the maidan, there are no such

children on crutches. what kind of a child were they in charge of? in my life, i have never scolded him for anything. he read so much he went to school first grade we had a library downstairs, we lived in an apartment then he read all the children's books, that's it, he already read everything interesting to him and he helped me with everything , he was still sticking dumplings on me they did not work in the 99th year, he was 18 years old, the elements were over and he was still studying at

the institute. i offered to work there. do you want to try to be a photographer? i happily agreed, and he became interested . exhibitions he always from the first time to him go to high jobs he is always in hot spots he everything he looked at how many medals

all hot spots everything he waited it's scary and maxim is for children, it's in general and hikes are organized and trips on the horizontal bar, he not only he didn't have golden hands, the female made a bed, made a port, he made a carousel, a swing, everything was like that, the playground, the equipment, i remember when there was an event on independence square, and

max was on maternity leave at the time , and he came to the event with his baby in smila. oh, and the baby and he has a camera, and he ’s walking there, filming something, everyone is running, and he’s so neat, but that’s all i was in the same profession. max and i. well, we probably saw each other at some events, but we got to know each other, we met in ilovaisk, we arrived in ilovaisk quietly, when we were at the depot, the first day, then the soldiers from the marathon peacemaker battalion brought us into the school and said that the only chance to get out of prison as a civilian from the school. there

will be some fast corridors. when we moved from the ilovaisk railway depot to the school, max was there and markiyan lysenko was there. and actually we started with them then, well, we got to know each other, i started to kiss and communicate closely there, it was august 25, 8 years ago we met in the corridor of the school, we hugged warmly and one of his first phrases was that the boys must eat, because war is war, but let's go, i'll feed you there. max had a very strong sense of justice, it applied to everything he loved spaces and i will show that this was also part of this sense of justice. he was very attentive to people and saw in people such details and features that can be seen only

if you look closely, if you appreciate people, that is, treat them carefully. i think this is part of his talent as a photojournalist, as a videographer, this is exactly what he saw of people. they were not indifferent to him in shostka or at five to six in the morning there was a column, we stood somewhere practically at the end of this column, there after a while there, a few hours later, we were given the order to leave. that's it we left for the border of the village. we left in the clearing, when it started, we opened fire on the russian troops , and max was really driving the car when we left. i consider our salvation to be his merit. that is, he is my guardian angel the person who saved my life because there, er, well, this exit that

lasted there for 30-40 minutes, i don't know, but at this moment it seems like an eternity, we already saw the explosions of mines near the road the road was shot at, it's clear that's it then max very quickly overtook the military truck and we simply passed the convoy at high speed on the left side and broke forward. we saw already knocked out tanks and equipment. and on the way, several bullets flew into our car. one bullet flew everywhere, flew into the windshield and knocked out the rear completely. i was sitting right behind him and he evaded these shellings , we ducked somewhere under armored vehicles, somewhere under trucks, our skill was the best, as

a result, they saved our lives, because this is the infinity we were driving, it was the only car that left with love that day, these photos were taken in the city of dokuchayevsk, which immediately after leaving, we stopped, got out of the car, looked around for the first time, and generally began to realize what we had just done, because this realization came gradually . during the last ambush, they asked us, well, with some kind of

machine gun fire, or kalashnikovs, well , what kind of small arms, here they got out of the car, the heart is pounding, the same photo to send, yes, max saved him, he was stubborn , so he interfered with someone in many, many reasons they helped because sometimes you linger there that he does something, then he does it until he does it, he was reliable, they talked a lot about what if someone was wounded or we would leave each other somewhere on the battlefield or not on the battlefield, but i don't know in the forest uh or is there anything else interesting somewhere he should have discovered this incredible man for himself he was completely devoted to his profession and his country which

is very difficult to reconcile this is of course because you have to be impartial if you are a reporter but this is your country your war your friends it is difficult but he was dedicated to telling stories. he was very clear in matters of security. he was strong, professional, but not crazy. he was always silent, and then when something started to escalate , there were 2 billion of those escalated . every time during the war, max tried to be somewhere closer to the front line, he was partly negligent, neglecting his own safety , he tried to show what was really happening before the beginning of the large-scale invasion, few photographers filmed the battles themselves, and max was one of those who filmed because she many people did not understand what war was, and max was showing what war was. and here he went

just on the eve of the 24th and he met war on the front line, we spent several days working together and suddenly the attack on kyiv happened, we talked and he told me the russians they will never conquer this country, i said they just attacked kyiv, and he replied they will never take this country, they will need a million people, but they will never conquer this country anyway. these were one of his last words, when he was coming back and he stopped in kharkiv he he could not miss them because he was on a car and this is probably one of the first photos directly of the destroyed equipment and the destroyed russians, who then did not resist the action, they were retreating, he knows max was just filming if following the

hot tracks, immediately after the battle, destroyed by the equipment of the invaders, max braked our comrade was the commander of the unit. they were together in ilovaisk, and he traveled with them, he filmed how they were fighting. i didn't follow him, that is, until the moment when we realized what he knew a few weeks before we started the investigation. petryk shovel, a french war correspondent , was together with max levin in donbass, they worked together and we decided together that i, as the head of the investigation department of reporters without borders, and he, as a military photographer who knew max, with whom he worked, we will work together on the investigation of this

investigation, it was to find out what what max did in the last days before his disappearance, so we interviewed family friends to find out more about what he did, how he covered the war, then in the second stage we tried to get materials about crimes, so we decided to get, despite some difficulties, to the scene of the crime, we met with several people in the village, it was important for us to gather information about which russian soldiers were in this village, what they did when they came, when they left, we tried to establish a connection with the crime that was committed in the forest a few kilometers from the village