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everyone, we recorded this conversation with the hero of ukraine, major general viktor nikoliuk, for a large project about the defense of chernigov, which we hope to present to the public in the near future. an interview in the classical sense, but rather a story by the commander of the northern operational command about those events and the decisions he had to take. these are memories of key battles for chernihiv, which completely broke the plans of the russians to capture the city in 2-3 days, as well as his memories of his personal participation in these battles, major general nikoliuk always appeared as a commander who personally leads the troops into an attack, and just in this conversation there are memories of such cases, for example, there is a video how nikoliuk, together with the soldiers, squeezes the russians at the berry roadblock, as well as his selfie against the background of the burning russian armored vehicles in kolochivka , he also tells about how they prepared for the russian invasion, about what his most

surprised the tactics of the russians about their escape from chernihiv at the end of march, as well as about the re -encounter with the same russian units already in donetsk region and their defeat near belogorivka in general, watch, listen, comment, and enjoy reading the article. by the way, this is the last interview time published the first wartime interview of valery zaluzhnye, the commander-in-chief of the armed forces of ukraine, of course, we read all interviews like this, there was such a moment when zaluzhnye told when he once shouted of his subordinates at the beginning of february, when he was planning these exercises before the invasion, directly before the invasion, you were there at that conversation, well, of course, this is the commander's job, why don't you shout, don't shout, to understand it is a team's job . when a team is working in the same direction, then turn didn't he shout maybe because of the height of his

voice maybe but it's a normal job and not always i guess i'd like it if everyone had to be patted on the head sometimes it's necessary to show demandingness even at the same time because commander-in-chief, we will all say yes to everyone. he treats everyone accordingly. with respect, well, his emotions were simply connected, they show that emotions were connected with the fact that not all commanders there, well, roughly speaking, believed in the invasion of russia in a serious way. what cohort of commanders did you belong to, did you believe that this was serious? as a military man, i always expect that they can be attacked, but the absurdity of this attack is the use of rockets, the use of aviation, artillery in the xxi century. in a certain sense, it caused doubt, although let 's say when our training began, mmm, i am more inclined to think that the invasion will be like this during the training

. of course, everyone was warned about this on the night of the 24th. did you sleep or not? we are already conducting training. no , i didn’t sleep. there was no sleep. because we worked for so long after that, we still didn’t sleep. well, for 24 days, i didn’t sleep on adrenaline. i fell asleep , then i wrote it for an hour, then about an hour and a half, and somewhere after a few days another three hours. the reports were made by the border guards who were at all checkpoints. i made a military field trip with this. i personally came to the entire border, throughout the entire territory of chernihiv oblast and sumy oblast. they checked all checkpoints on

what are there, we understood that there could be an invasion from there, that's why an alert system was organized together with a unit of the state border service, and in the first minutes it was they who gave the report. that is, where was the volume of mortars, where , on the contrary, was the sound of grenade launchers. and where the barrel artillery immediately worked, it was accepted the decision to nominate units to determine the border , i.e., the first stage unit and 58 separate and infantry brigades at the border in order to prevent the aggression of the enemy on our territory in the first place , it was decided to disperse all units, i.e., taking into account that the launch of rocket strikes has already been decided , i think the commander-in-chief has received the approval, i will disperse the first tank unit, 58 separate motorized infantry brigades, they were scattered, which made it possible when the first tank was launched a rocket strike, all people were alive, all the equipment, all ammunition was saved, and i immediately determined the

task of advancing on the first tank brigade on the defense of chernigov, and the 58th separate motorized infantry brigade on the baturyn highway that is, there to gluhiv in order to prevent further formation of the enemy. when the first battles started , the first battles started. i was in konotop at the time. they went immediately. this was the first tank. five enemy tanks were knocked out at once there, unfortunately, several of our vehicles were knocked out, the enemy tried to completely surround one of the mouths, i remember one of the mouths , they tried to engage, but they came out, they tried to engage the left flank, they left the encirclement the commander of the khode brigade made the right decision, led them out several kilometers, conducted a counterattack, and thanks to this, the people were alive, we lost two three cars at that time, but the enemy also had to get there, we destroyed them, they found the first tank

brigade in the first battle. and well, that is, so -and-so work has already gone, let’s say that the 58th brigade also entered the battle er near glukhov on the highway, but the operational one was predominant, ours made an impression, but by that time the enemy’s column had advanced further than er-er why it happened because they began to investigate civilian cars, ours were found to evacuate and those were simply civilian cars , the movement started, but they were already near konotop and stopped there, the fighting had already started, we had already fought there, we had already left today, the entry was made, the tanks left, the infantry, uh, the 58th brigade carried losses and was forced to retreat. and the first tank, on the contrary, entrenched itself on ni, well, and here stood the 58th, they went to the turnpike, e-e, units of the shoshen regiment of the national guard left with us, also 28 separately, and the infantry brigade

occupied, accordingly, the turning point of the turnpike, and here to chernihiv and the first tankov, it occupied the north of chernihiv and here, well, that is, practically the northeastern and western parts of chernihiv, there were also units of the national guard, which is here in chernihiv, there is also a unit of the national police and the 119th brigade of territorial defense, as well as the state the special service of transport 28 , the training center that is here was also used to protect bridges, to protect communications, well, before that, i was just the day before, a coordination meeting was held under the leadership of the governor we held a meeting where representatives of all powerful structures were involved, each of them defined clear, certain tasks that were to be carried out. and i believe that this is to protect, not exactly, by joint actions. we managed to keep it. movement of the enemy who broke the signs on the

roads so that they didn't know who was going where, who made roadblocks, who made molotov cocktails let's say yes well , they drained the fuel they drained the fuel yes, this is a separate separate story we get information, that is, all the time people reported that there is still an enemy there, thanks to this, we give the impression why this is quite so significant and once reported that at one station, unfortunately , he does not remember, a train stopped with about 20 tankers and people are ready to say they are not guarded like that and said , well, piss him off. well, they sorted everything out, then the second time he approached it like that. just like i said. well, although make a video so that it is real, so that it was true, and sent photos of what was there. well, i think there were about a hundred people on tractors. on horses on motorcycles on beads and here they are heard there, everyone is smiling, a finger, joint work, firstly,

we worked with the governor, practically such a tandem of such, that is, any questions . i want from everything that at the moment i believe that the defense of chernihiv is the result of such hard work but joint work and this is the result we achieved precisely because we worked together as if we were a train well, i'm not saying that i was saved by chernihiv, but the results could have been more like this, let's say worse, but thanks to joint work, we succeeded . carried out because we planned to completely displace the authorities to allow the museum to cross our state border, but under

certain circumstances, we did not manage to operate completely from there because the forces were really overwhelming. and for example, even in the 58th there will be infantry in a battle with tanks the enemy, well, you can’t fight much on battleships, it’s the human factor that played the key role here, because people destroyed them with grenade launchers, e.e., with anti-tank guided missiles. but the enemy’s advantage was more than significant, so they had to retreat. they got, that is, let’s say so, they didn’t have time to get to the fish itself, but they didn’t go back to the turbish that they got to, that is, they didn’t move a step back into it, that is, they stayed on it until the end, of course there were battles in the area of ​​the epicenter, even this time the enemy when they already used such a massive air force, then the artillery people, missile strikes were launched, then the tanks came out, they worked somewhere for four to six hours, and then when the infantry left, they even went somewhere deep. a tank there, the border guards

well done, the 119th brigade worked, and then they gave it back, they left the impression that they fled there, so they took a couple of tanks, then they took a pair of tigers, they took a pair of tigers, they took the first tank, well, they restored it let’s say it’s lost position and the enemy did not enter the city, well, you saw that video with russian bmps under a high-rise building, which will offer because what is their fate sotka? the decision for the defense of chernihiv was made by colonel dmytro berezhynsky. there was such a decision on the assignment of units that we called tank destroyers, i.e. the personnel of the 21st rifle battalion, who was here, who stood on the lukashons, from there they came out in a certain number was intended for the destruction of tanks with them pavlo held a training session on shooting with rps-7 grenade launchers and there was another one of foreign production and according

to the calculation they were supposed to advance to one or another line to destroy them at the moment the destruction of these bmps is almost everything well, i won’t even make a mistake, it’s their merit, that is, they came out, they worked, they destroyed them. well, then he won’t find the phone somewhere. we had to keep the russians at the border, we had to keep the fishes, respectively, the fishes of horodnya. and then, well, we didn’t have time to stay there because, well, we didn’t have time when we got out, respectively, on a freebie . they provided the appropriate coordinates and all the logistics, which was from the cherry tree, here and there, we destroyed it, we launched missile strikes, i.e. by points by points, yes, we are conducting missile strikes, but

thanks to the points, slavutych was given glory to the heroes when the column was going twice, i was impressed by the column and even that special squad that reached slavutych was demoralized and practically that company that was under the command of the military commissar of slavutych it held the city and let's say that the city was not destroyed thanks to the artillery the weight of our artillery is precisely the destruction of the enemy, because at the crossings , accordingly, how many times did he try to attack crossings across the rivers, we simply destroyed them, we were often reminded that how it was in the future called chornobaivka at that time, let’s say

there was no chernobaika, but i was always surprised by some stupidity of the enemy, because if you climb into one point, you make an impression on him, they will throw it there anyway, they don’t climb , they climb, we will destroy, especially the composition was surprising. zhukov's principles, so that what they are attacking is probably in the russian army, which will work for centuries on makoshino. yes, they suffered the most losses. we suffered the most losses in the first hall of hurricanes, immediately somewhere, the attacks burned them down. good morning two were found at once, that is, let’s say so, some kind of military science, any commander. let’s say so , from this side, to abandon the decision to

continue . it is 30 there or more, i think somewhere up to 60, but well, the armored personnel carriers there were damaged and the rest there, the tanks there and sank those tanks there, three tanks they drowned there , they were there and remained. how to cross she applied them, she made an impression several times, but she did not melt, that is , she was there so well, she put her there. well, with the engineer, she wants to be inflated with foam, that is, even when she leaves the impression, she stayed on the water, and this gave the opportunity, well , to move to our side simply add , er, me and one smooth little golden girl, that is, when they went there precisely thanks to this crossing, in the first place, they went to the berry tree just in time.

they said that there is an enemy there, no, there is nothing, we carried out an advance, we got into an ambush, yes, you got out of the ambush, the enemy confirmed that the enemies are really there, they will not think of anything else, the village is burning, i don’t know what, well, some idiocy already struck the russian army at that time, but we knew that the enemy is already there, and that is why it was decided to close the southern part of chernihiv, i.e., additional roadblocks were recognized in order to prevent further penetration of the enemy, i.e. along the otakiev highway, respectively, to chernihiv because they they tried to surround it, and i was the one to leave, this is a roadblock, it's a berry. so we're going to the eggs. now there's a roadblock of the national guard. this was the very first block, the bridge, uh, it was knocked out by our infantry. she left, then it was taken again

. glory to ukraine, they held it somewhere around 4 hours then artillery mortars started working for us 122 152 then hurricanes us then hails then the end of the planes airlifted us well we were sitting now well and then the decision was already made to provoke the equipment and evacuate the personnel in principle this method life, because at night they found a rocket bomb hit by a block-post, there was practically nothing left , and the equipment that was broken, the axis was burned down, and it was simple as such, it practically ceased to exist, because all the concrete structures that were there were simply destroyed by the hit of the bomb. what was the approximate date, it was march 3/4, we were ambushed, andriy was killed just on the fourth, they destroyed this checkpoint at night. that is, you went to scout, roughly speaking, well, you can

say that to the audience, now the question is what, generals in development, generals and soldiers and soldiers ride in it before they select a soldier from us death and too, he can get first. that's what morals are in my head so that you simply then have the moral right. let's say this before sending a soldier to some battle. his role. let's say yes to his skin. he will go there . feel what he feels. let him pass through you and then, accordingly, you have the moral right to tell him to go there. that is, if you yourself have already been there at that time. how are these decisions or what, because unfortunately the infantry at the checkpoint was not ready to go, and it was necessary to accurately establish the presence of the enemy, that is, the soldiers

refused, well, roughly speaking, well, that is, the soldiers did not go, let’s say they were not ready morally. they were simply not ready, if we had taken them with us, we would have simply suffered losses, they would have remained there. and how many of you went there in an ambush, four of us went, and there was also a car with special 158th brigades, they slipped through in an ambush well, not on the oral. we were riding on the tucson, we were ambushed, and a battle ensued, due to which on the 58th they passed quickly. we fought a battle. they were somewhere. well, yes, 14-15 people, according to my impressions, i won't say , maybe a few somewhere so that we could work. that the fire of the place with stun bullets and several firing points really put it out, and then, unfortunately, andriy katkov died. this is your driver, yes, the driver. well, he also took part in the battle, and also one of the commandos was behind me. he was wounded, and they began to cover us

with a mortar. apc 82 and i just worked with 30 mr. well, i had to get there. let’s say that ak-74 automatic grenade launcher mukha, that is rpg-22 rpg-26, so that we shot them all, we had a lot of them, the tiger really came out, then the armored personnel carrier came out with an automatic machine, and of course against the 30 mm community strongly you shouldn't be burning. and we were still fighting for about two hours. then we left after dark, the infantry accepted us. we made an impression our scouts burned down the shooting range that was there, then we found out that there were about 6 people there, whom we also destroyed with grenade launchers, we opened fire, destroyed one

firing point, took the body and took it to the bmp, the scouts took it to the bmp, we left after that, just as he was, we learned that he was standing on the berry tree the 55th brigade is he, it is they. we must understand that they will definitely not go further, but the attempts will continue. the russians first occupied yagidne and they entered yagidne, then they, respectively, after jagidne, when they destroyed our checkpoint, that is, when the aviation promises, they found it, it means the fifth or eighth, yes, they completely entered ivanivka, er, they made a bypass, that is, they did not cover ivanivka with artillery, but they entered from the other side, that is, after a few pages, they entered the 58th brigade, unfortunately, all of our bmps were destroyed , enemy equipment was destroyed, but about two companies went in there, and one of them was 5 bmps, and well,

about 50 personnel, according to him, first there was artillery fire, and why such a massive artistic fire, eh then there was an encirclement, ours led a battle, thank god, everyone got out of the encirclement, unfortunately, they were killed, and then they took krysivana . what happened, let's say a mechanized company, we are a motostrat company, strengthened to about 2 tank ships, there was a battle right at the crossroads in the middle of how many candidates, the checkpoint was like this, the so-called valve, all the tanks of the enemy were

one was destroyed, we captured one, so the infantry that was breaking through in the bmp was destroyed, a major role was played by a unit of the national guard and a tank unit of the 58th motorized infantry brigade . well, the heads of those who were burned like that remained, well, they all stuck together like this. well, there is nothing to climb at all, and they were knocked out. it turns out that one tank that has already passed down here, if we take the name of it, blew up to a minimum the ammunition was blown up there, uh, one tank on the approach to ivanivka, one in ivanivka, respectively , blew up on mines, the btr-82 was also completely destroyed with the crew, and in my opinion, the bmp apc and another apc, but they took it away and when we we already entered, accordingly, the nomad captured one t-72 tank,

which had already broken through, we captured it, the crew fled, then from the floor, all the national guards, we already held the line, so mostly the shooting stopped. once later our scouts left, our scouts who were sent here and the scouts of the first tank of the brigade captured the ork btr-82 and arrived on it right away, the failure of the apc leaves, they almost knocked it down. well, thank god that our scouts were there, then they also took it into their own right now he is serving 134 to our security battalion. well, you mentioned such a case in kalushivka, when there was a critical situation, you personally had to come to all the bar tanks . thank god, we don't take time off from work normally, we hold on. glory to ukraine, heroes, glory to ukraine

everything is to understand the situation sitting in the headquarters, well , you don’t perceive it that way, that’s why we, of course, made decisions about who is in charge of the defense, for example, the brazilian law enforcement in chernihiv. the usual work of the commander , that is, how to determine in the statute that the commander should be where it is most important and accordingly, such a decision was held not only in the collection, which is around, well, on all the teams, such moves are also made by the president around carried out the movement, i had to keep the brazilian one because everyone let them fight. everyone wanted to destroy the enemy, that's why i'm the only one here. practically everyone is like that. i don't know how much trophy equipment you have in general during the blockade of chernihiv, i didn't count, but i think that a battalion can be assembled, that is, a battalion of machine tools, only a battalion it can only be collected in chernihiv, and taking into account everything where

our operational team was, let’s say so, trophies. in this sense, the 54th separate investigative battalion took very good there, they captured a whole tank company, later on , all this was, well, there was logistics, that is, the arsen logistics team, it was set up, it comes accordingly, at the moment, there are certain friends, it is fighting , in general, trophies are good, they took, they took the trophy and, well, from the weapons, ending that we are there, the tor complex accordingly, the hurricanes took tanks, i.e. bmp btr-82, almost the entire line of weapons is still the same in the russian army, it is almost all all models, let’s say at the moment, we talked about including even the 2022 year of production, they also took this armored kamaz and the equipment is small, well, you have a

tanker by education. well, you graduated from the first tanker . how do you rate the work of our tankers? first tanker 58. what did they produce? well, the first can. well done, in general, i think because it is really a job, that is, the commander of the colonels prepared them well. - and 58 also coordinated actions of the personnel , that is, here it is the personnel who worked to destroy someone anti-tank complexes, those who worked from the tightest corsairs, that is, eh, those who are ours, ot 113 eh, 111 complexes, this is 58 the first tankova there are more tankers here. although the kalichivka itself is the merit of the tank battalion commander maksym khrebtov, who was in charge of the defense kolekshivka for more than a month.