the glorious lands at the confluence of the ingula with the buska estuary became closely connected with the zaporizhzhya cossacks and for centuries formed a free ukrainian spirit to fight, the city named in honor of saint nicholas, the patron saint of sailors, always courageously fought against enslavement, as during the second world war, hitler's troops shamefully fled from mykolaiv like the same fate awaits the other occupiers who are now encroaching on the glorious naval shrine, despite the constant shelling of mykolaiv, the cordon is spreading its sails for the victory of ukraine. unconquered mykolaiv when you go to work in the morning, you smile at your neighbor, the neighbor will thank the barista for his coffee with a nice tip. and

she will buy them a warm scarf and part of the money will go to a bronik or a fairy tale for another neighbor of yours. every day, every deed can protect those who protect us thanks to you, our dear defenders and defenders, we smile at each other in the morning, we thank each other , the border of freedom, the border of dignity, the border of humanity, the border of indomitability, the border of victory, the state border service of ukraine, the primacy of honor,

russian warship, go to hell, warm rules countries, a private house, install as many additional sources of heat as possible, stock up on various types of fuel, determine a warm room or floor, prepare batteries and individual heating devices, seal or adjust windows and doors, check the side equipment, be ready to take shelter during the cold weather, let's beat the winter together , mine called to start it with us already the day before , groups were formed, they say that they are receiving a defensive tale, then we will leave, only this grandmother did not cry, that the boys are stupid. don't leave us for me, if the first goal was to go

there and tell athletes from other countries there so that they could tell their colleagues there what is really happening in ukraine, not what is happening there with tv or social networks, uh, they tell from real universities dmytro, in vinnytsia, you were preparing for the championship of the world after returning from the combat zone, and here there were several arrivals, several rockets exploded during the actual training process, what did you feel at this moment during the training, an alarm sounded and we would start going to the basement, well, to the shelter and they felt an explosion quite strong, which was so uh, they reminded me of kharkiv and returned to reality at four o'clock, these explosions started, everyone woke up and if they didn't believe that it

had started after all, they got weapons again at that uh, at that position we would go there somewhere, maybe until five or 6:00 in the morning, we sat there too. i also started calling the girl there, what if collect things , my sister is also studying, also called what and collect, we will uh, decide what to do, and then if i had already called my the authorities of u we were already formed into groups the day before, they say they will receive a defense story, we will leave, roughly speaking, they gave us a little instruction there, they took us through a course on the rights of where we were going, and we got into the kamaz there and went to northern saltiko on the way, if we were still there anyway they told us something, but if they didn't fully understand what was happening then on the road, if there was an explosion and then we were driving there, some kamaz was on fire there, if we had already arrived at

saltivka itself, well, there maybe 200 meters from the position where we were supposed to be at home, too all from with their belongings there with sleeping bags. and there was also a car full of weapons. everyone left their belongings there and went through under the shelling. right there, hail seems to have started shooting. fortunately, no one was hit. well, everyone entered this house. no one understood what was happening. what was our task, they said there . to defend yourself, but how will it happen, but later on, if everything somehow got better, who came and answered? but if there was constant shelling there, well, how can you say that every half an hour, something constantly broke, and well, if at first, it was from the 24th

somewhere there, at 10 o'clock, i was already on the saltiv and stayed there for almost two months. well, at first, well, anyway, well, they thought that infantry tanks would go there. well, how is it in soviet films that everyone runs across the field? well , later on, there well, you can say there for 2-3 weeks, well , everyone already understood that there would not be such a large-scale offensive, how did the local residents who remained on the northern salta perceive the fact that the military is now occupying positions next to them, or let their apartments, how did they react to you at first when we are only on the first day everyone stopped there and took a video, everyone was wondering what was going on there, uh, then they saw a video on instagram of how we were running there in the

position of running, but then, well, if now most of the residents immediately went there, they stayed, well, like to say uh, who has nowhere to go. well, there was a case there, the grandparents stopped by there, well, they sent me there to a separate house. there were a few more people there, we were there on the ninth floor, and there were on the floor of my grandmother, well, if they had enough, eh -e elderly people and if they said that we are here they fed us there. well, there was soup. over there, my grandmother was constantly offering us these rations, but if she was always there, we had to run out, under fire, a car came and took us, and then when we were already moved to another position if they said that there is no point in sitting there

, then the grandmother almost cried there, that the boys don't mind. don't throw us away, although we explain that we don't throw her in the neighboring house if they are most needed there. the residents perceived it quite positively, everyone helped each other there. we are residents there food, water, what do they have, the same thing, what could we do there , what we don’t have there, first there was light, then the phones were charged there, the charger was given, if you helped, did you go to the world championship in finland as part of the ukrainian national team, did you really count on high places? i understand that i wanted to prove myself, i wanted to show that ukraine is fighting, that it is competing, that it is winning, regardless of what happens here, on the contrary, it only strengthens the desire to be the best. a better place, but for me, if the first goal

was to go there and tell athletes from other countries there, so that they tell their colleagues what is actually happening in ukraine, not what they say on tv or social networks, but from real post, show the video there, that was the main goal, but if i trained myself, it would be possible and i wanted to take the first place, because we have been striving for this for many, many years, and if we finally succeeded, if it was such a difficult time, it would be great what this is exactly how it turned out. please tell me, military pentathlon is an applied sport. it is a sport that helps to navigate better for the terrain. swim fast. react quickly to certain events

. the war in ukraine, many people heard what i said from the news, but in reality they did not believe that it could be there. people live well, we say that's how it is there, well, if everyone asked how we, well, how did we manage to train there, or was it possible, well, everyone is curious, but everyone is looking for what if we were able to come there and if we could show a decent result, which countries were most interested in the situation in ukraine, the most it is lithuania, if we are friendly relations with them. therefore, before the competition, the guys also helped us, uh, well, some military

units from sweden approached there, guys from finland asked, now in the status of the world championship, do you plan to return to combat positions or otherwise the tasks are in front of you now there is a task there another orienteering competition now what is happening in us after the competition i will return to kharkiv again if i was to deal with my functional duties or the tasks that will be set there by the team ukrainian army conducted a successful counteroffensive in the kharkiv region and large territories were liberated, how do you think events will develop and the war will continue perfectly if this is a very difficult question spread and no one will give an exact answer but everyone wants to hear what or if she acted. my opinion is that if uh, quickly, for sure, the war will not end

, but uh, what uh, the armed forces conducted an effective counteroffensive, if for the city of kharkiv, the neighboring cities, uh, cities, villages, uh, of course, this is positive because there will be less shelling from the territory of ukraine, they will no longer be able to shell us , so if it is positive of course and you believe in our victory, of course there is no other way. thank you very much. i wish you victory in sports competitions and in this war, thank you. on february 24, 2022, we came from a peaceful life where everything is quiet and there are shellings playing from machine mortars, we defend our sovereignty, our independence, as

it were, these words did not sound very cliche if this war is not stopped, now my eldest son is 11 years old well, plus eight, 19 will go he fights public vinnytsia i am oleksandr vasylyshyn we are talking to the platoon commander of the first vinnytsia volunteer battalion taras myshchyshyn my greetings mr. taras good day tell me about yourself i was born in the ternopil oblast berezhanskyi district, village of pidlisne, graduated from school for a year, worked at a cannery as a loader, after which i served in the army for two years, after completing conscription, i entered the vinnytsia pedagogical institute at the faculty of physical training and initial military training . there was a military department there. after that, he worked

as a physical education teacher in the ternopil region and left school because the salary was very small. so, in 2000, i left abroad for portugal, where i lived for 8 years and returned back in 2007. that's how i founded my small business there. such a starting point of my second life began on february 24, 2022, when this full-scale so-called special operation began as putin called it, the shelling of ukrainian cities began and they shelled, including the vinnytsia airport. for about an hour and a half, my wife and two young children gathered and went to our motherland, the ternopil region, as if the future is closer from here . to the western border. we spent only one

night there, and the next day my wife and two children went to poland. i left on the 27th. on february 27, i returned to vinnytsia and at 8 o'clock in the morning on the 28th i was already at the vinnytsia military commissariat and that's how my military service began. service why exactly the first vinnytsia volunteer battalion this battalion was formed as a volunteer battalion from such local vinnytsia of vinnytsia region from vinnytsia region for the districts of vinnytsia were also formed into a battalion it underwent coordination in kozyatyn in kozyatyn. then we were in vinnytsia for three or four weeks. we were training at the training grounds

. a year, if a lot of time had already passed, many things had already been forgotten, and on april 24th, at three o'clock in the morning, we were raised on the alarm and the battalion went to the combat zone in sloviansk ot, and we were there until april 26th, when we got to the front line, where the our first battle, the so-called combat baptism, was shelling from mortars, a mine went off, the guys fired, they saw the equipment moving in our direction. it was two grenade launchers, an assistant of a citizen, two young guys, and they fired two shots. well, the answer came, a mine flew and instantly we lost before dinner

. days, as they always say , the most losses are in the first days, because people we are not, well, not fired upon, one thing is that we came from a peaceful life where everything is quiet and here the soviets are shelling from machine mortars, of course, and the first casualties. it was a shock, but well over time, a person adapts and gets used to shelling even later when you hear a shot whistling a mine you already understand it 80-something 100-120-150-and it flies 2 km further or approximately in the area where you are and that's why with the acquisition of such experience of course i lost much less and in a different way a person already feels calmer without panic tell me about life in the war about food supply of ammunition

we did not have such problems with the supply of ammunition or food the food was very very good food and ammunition were immediately provided to everyone only with greens, maybe there were specific sizes for someone , the 46th shoes were there, for example, were the clothes a large size or, on the contrary, some very small size, the prices were not, the shortcomings were eliminated before we got to the food front, what is in kozyatin, what is here in vinnytsia, what is there, uh, televezi without one, it was very good, very good, a lot of us were supported by volunteers, they brought a lot of home products. so even once every couple of days , we loaded a car with sausage that was given to us there porridge stews were brought into the village and distributed to civilians at the front, did you communicate with your wife, children, and family? well, of course, he must have

been at least one call during the day or well, if there was no opportunity, there was such a zone where there was no communication yes, once or twice a day. well, mostly every day, we communicated with short calls. everything is fine. what do you think of taras’s attack? we defend our sovereignty , our independence, as it were . we and we create for ourselves here our own our own laws our own rules we remember the 14th year and fasting after 8 years putin has already officially brought troops here if this war is not stopped now my eldest son is 11 years old well plus 8:19 he will go to fight what has changed or didn't change in the war, in your opinion, uh, during the seven months of the full-scale war, a lot changed in the war, in the first days when we got there,

we didn't have any. and then we asked questions after about two months, artillery adjusters were on duty near us, uh, uh i asked them question: why was our artillery silent on the 26th when only men fired in response, we didn’t hear anything, well, they said that we didn’t have anything, we just had 2-3 mortars, and we wouldn’t have ammunition to replace it, we have a lot of ammunition now, there is a lot of equipment now imported equipment, a lot of equipment that was taken from the russians who were retreating and left, so now the advantage is absolutely on our side. how long do you think the war will last? i think that if there is no coup in russia, it can last another year or two, because the offensive is always it is more difficult to fight back than it takes a lot of time and energy and the losses are great, we all must take

part in this war, all the civilians who are here must take part in this war , someone who works, pays taxes , replenishes the budget, and of course there are a lot of volunteers now almost all of these cars are very helpful and helpful, and they travel from abroad with the funds of volunteers and relatives to our unit, for example, the first car was brought to us by a farmer of the bershad district, i don’t know, he even brought it and gave it to us from there is a fighter in his village, we are in my platoon, here he came and presented us with niva, after some time the director of the company

in which he serves. what we need is a car, a subdivision . he gave the phone number of the baltic fund where his daughter works, and after 3-4 days the car was already an iveco truck, it was at the border, my wife posted a post on facebook that we need a subdivision a car and over the course of a week they collected something like 140 or 160,000 uah with these funds and bought a mercedes ml, which is also now performing its tasks in the territory of the donetsk region, the same peasants are now ordering and financing, but yesterday i literally found people who paid a purely symbolic fee of 400 uah there for some metal, they make burghers, they ordered 10 pieces for my unit .

freed himself caught the armed forces of ukraine another flag remained where my children and sons signed no, they should bring it to me already when the war is over again with their signatures from this story, this flag was from the first day with you , mr. taras, our unit, you are now in vinnytsia, you have been demobilized from the ranks of the armed forces of ukraine, according to the law, you have the right to this due to family circumstances, so do you keep in touch with the soldiers with whom you served, of course, we communicate, but very rarely, because now they are in the zone where went on the offensive and there is no mobile phone connection there because the russians blew up the tower, but i communicate with people who remained, let's say, at the base, but the connection with them

is maintained to a limit. everyone is fighting and getting closer to victory. what does the victory of ukraine mean for you? first of all, the victory of ukraine means to me that there will be no russian schools of moscow churches on our land, on the territory of ukraine, for example in moscow. there is not a single ukrainian church in russia and no ukrainian there used to be absolutely no schools, so why should we have them? well, of course, they have to solve something with that e-e business that is controlled by the russians on the territory of ukraine, those factories that were sold there and donated there, e-e pipelines and so on and so on we have to live in our own land and lead ourselves without a hint or from the side and without any rules that are imposed on us. thank you for the conversation .

thank you. to love my kiev, your green hills, life, stormy chestnuts and churches, your victory and love for ukraine, for thousands of years, many armies of the world wanted to destroy you, the golden horde burned and destroyed you , the reds carried with them terror, cathedrals were looted and killed in the second world war, you were bombed, and stalin burned down khreshchatyk but you survived, you stood and got up, no evil can overcome you and now you have gathered the best daughters and sons, you stand and

stand with you ukraine is ours and behind it the whole world kyiv invincible we will see their faces in the news you will not find their names in the lists of those awarded, they are unknown but unusual, they report on enemy positions, they put up leaflets and blow up traitors, they bring victory closer, and because of them, the enemy is burning the earth under his feet, because this is our land. glory to the ukrainian partisans. this winter, we will fight with the enemy and with in the cold, we will test our weapons and the insulation of our homes, destroy the enemy and drafts, greet our brothers at the front and

our relatives in the front-line zone in the rear, we will bring victory closer both on the front line and at home we will win the winter together children of war wounded and dead missing missing deported and displaced if you know any information about a missing or deported child, report it on the state portal children of war at children of war.gov.ua or by calling 0850-1720 help return the child home

unconquered cities of ukraine odesa, a picturesque city on the shores of the black sea since ancient times, the territory of modern odesa was a delicacy for the ottoman empire, the russian empire, nazi germany, and today for the fascist russia, but don't rush to mother's nerves, she has a ukrainian heart. the unconquered winter of this year promises to be the hardest in the years of independence of critical

infrastructure, so we have to prepare for the most difficult scenarios. in winter, everyone should be responsible, invite relatives, acquaintances from the regions that have suffered destruction together and be warmer and more cheerful, stock up on flashlights and power banks, charge them and stock up on food, water and warm clothes for a friend of this neighbor, it is easier to beat the enemy in a group and to winter. moreover, and most importantly, support the armed forces thanks to them. the rules of a

warm country, a high-rise building, unite with neighbors, inspect the house, attract specialists for insulation, prepare batteries, repair and adjust windows and doors, check electrical wiring, take care of a warm room and personal heating devices, take care of those who is more difficult to develop an action plan in an extreme situation to discuss the need for a backup generator to equip the premises for joint heating let's beat the winter together