our free sky is the 53rd separate mechanized brigade. our brigade has its own rambaza, its own rear , its own support, that is, artillery infantry. everything works like clockwork with us. anton, the commander of the brigade artillery group, controls all the artillery. petrovich petrovich you will lead on friday, you will lead bread on saturday and a bathhouse on saturday, and here, well, everything ran away, then the formation of the 53rd brigade began in the fall of 2014 , when it finally became clear that the treacherous the neighbor will not back down and it is necessary to immediately strengthen our armed forces, the brigade included

units that had already passed combat baptism, and new recruits who were only learning to defend their land joined constantly. on the day of the last mobilization, i begged at the military commissariat and they took me. oleksiy chulpanov was originally from donetsk region. in his peaceful life, he was a mountaineer, then he fought in the dnipro-1 volunteer battalion for oleksiy, like many others of other fighters of the 53rd, this war began in the spring of 2014. after the first pro-russian rallies in donetsk in 14th year, i served the donbas arena there and previous rallies from the roof.

he called his friend from ivano-frankivsk. he said that no one but you will fight for your land. this was the final decision already in 2015. long, although the newly formed brigade did not even have a servant of its own ppd at that time, i.e., the points of permanent deployment, the brigade was called gypsy because we hung around the training grounds, we carried everything with us, there was no place to leave the equipment, we had a legal point where we started to build ppd, they started building it severodonetsk airport, the city of severodonetsk on

luhansk region was still destroyed by russian buyers, more than 90% of its inhabitants started running to save their lives since may 2020. the 53rd brigade bears the honorary name of prince volodymyr monomakh in to the notes of volodymyr monomakh to his descendants, even before going to bed, first check all the posts, look through these posts yourself and when you go to bed , do not remove the gun in the campaign, that's how it turns out 53, it was not for nothing that she received the name of volodymyr monomakh, because it was he who became famous for his successful fight against the hordes that attacked our lands from the east, the official full-scale aggression of the russian army began on february 24, the brigade units that stood on the front line of the defense had their own history, and they began to

cover us with all types of weapons except air force somewhere 8-10 days before the start of the war, we did not respond so that there would be no provocations, our military hoped to the last that they only wanted to provoke them into a response with massed fire, and then accuse them of shelling the residents of donbas , behind whom russia was hiding. they did not believe the latter, it seemed that common sense will win, not win. on february 24, he finally understood that the long shelling was a classic artillery preparation for a decisive mood for which the insidious enemy had been preparing for a long time and carefully. they hit powerfully, they hit us on control communications before this fire, they cleaned the equipment

, fired at the enemy's plan, the attack on communications and logistics was supposed to completely destroy the combat capability of the brigade, deprive its units of controllability and the supply of the most necessary things, they didn't even have the opportunity to bring provisions to 200 of the first 4 - for 5 days, the locals fed us, the enemy hoped that the ukrainian soldiers would get scared and run, because according to military normative documents, a huge russian group should be quickly defeated 53 the brigade could hold out for 2-3 days, but the brigade held on and is holding on. until now, but not the invaders, they failed thanks to the indomitability of our soldiers and officers. the infantry is not for nothing called the queen of the field, because it is the infantry who are the first to meet the enemy face to face and the last to leave their positions in case of retreat, it carries the main burden

of these battles because as long as the infantry controls the territory , as long as it controls the defense area, the enemy can not feel free there. lieutenant colonel yevhen kravchenko is one of those who was not frightened by the the advantage of the enemy, moreover, in the first hottest days, he received a well-deserved promotion and became a battalion commander, as direct as rava's reception, he was the commander of the first battalion who was before me, eh, well, his predecessor was wounded in the first battles, and the brigade commander accordingly called me and eh -he said that accordingly, it is necessary to raise the flag, as they say, to continue to lead the unit, so i did not hesitate even for a second and immediately went to the unit at two in the morning, but successful actions of the infantry are impossible without interaction with others by the armies, especially for the queen of the fields, the help of the artillerymen of the gods of war is important. artillery is the basis of

fire damage to the enemy. no operation is complete without artillery training and support. when you talk to the commander of the road unit you support, he says to you. everything is on fire, the enemy is running, or something else, you destroyed the enemy , i.e. yes, when the infantry is happy, it is their work. you understand that you are in the right place and you are doing the right thing, despite the heroic resistance under due to the blows of the superior forces of the enemy, the fighters of the 53rd brigade still had to withdraw, we with our brigade held out normally, they held back normally for the first three days, they did not advance a single step, then when the 54th tanks came to our rear from the side, well, then we already started to regroup and started to withdraw, but we have always held the line and now we are holding the men

, units of the brigade in particular and artillerymen only by a miracle then we avoided encirclement and defeat, we took away all the imports and toys that were not left, it turns out we did not leave we escaped thanks to what we got the order to leave on time was difficult to leave at night on dirt, then on asphalt. it is about 10 km in armor with bc with weapons and equipment, the deputy commander of the self-propelled artillery division, roman masliy, received the task of withdrawing the rear support units, signalmen, repairmen, cooks , it was necessary to re-equip in a safe place the old cossack the village of pokrovske, where the convoy stopped, is located in the dnipropetrovsk region. but in those critical days, it seemed that the enemy was about to break through here after negotiating with the local the farmers even started to form a partisan unit and were going to become partisans in the literal sense of the word, there are

tanks going there, lord, what kind of tanks, lord, yes, we negotiated real strength, you just don’t go anywhere , you stay here. that's how they checked there. so that nothing was leaking, they would just level it so that it was even, so that this too and there was no film, and they would run it for ten of ours, well, something was leaking , that's how you do it, and you will live or will knee-deep, damn it, together with the 53rd, we built structures that gave us confidence that our community would be safe from the soldiers of the 53rd. the attitude of the residents of pokrovsky towards them was simply amazing

. army logistics was broken. while it was all equipped, they actively helped us and are helping us to this day. pir gingerbread goodies homemade preserves homemade fresh bread smells like home i didn't expect that there would be help in such a volume i don't know people brought everything they were ready to give absolutely everything so that only we stayed a at this very time, the advanced units of the 53rd could hold the defense in donbas. the epic battle for volnova was taking place for more than three weeks. the defenders of the city restrained the wild attacks of the overwhelming enemy

. in the battles for volnovakha, the boys had to learn new specialties in order to beat the enemy side by side with their comrades. the volnovasi had problems with this because the artillery simply worked 24/7 mortars, artillery, aviation , that is, with such dense fire, the movement is practically reduced to zero converged to zero, they had to retrain from anti-tankers with infantrymen, learned through war, in a hurry to capture the city, the enemy literally overwhelmed the ukrainian positions with the corpses of their own soldiers, when i found out that the russians went to chernobyl, irina okupa, and to chernobyl and the fields of the mines, well, it's just amazing because the person who went there

received an insane dose of radiation, what is it radiation sickness or he will die now or tomorrow and they destroyed then the next ones just went forward and with such constant attacks they tried to weaken us psychologically it is quite difficult to hold on in these places but in the fight they stand to withstand such loads and these waves and waves of attacking attackers they repel the attackers also do not understand how it is possible to hold back after unsuccessful attempts to take the volnovaha from the front, the aggressor switched to scorched earth tactics, which at one time were loved by hitler's criminals, calling it madness, a total war to destroy the enemy , it remains so, and the mongols are destructive, for sure , yes, they concentrate a lot of artillery and

begin to simply demolish the buildings of the street and quarter by quarter, wait, i accepted the plus big 90-8 61 196 1,000 hryvnias big big i dot prepare one and gas them all let's pile up there. to get burned, i accepted the reception, and even in real hell, the ukrainian defenders held on to the last, here are the fighters of the mortar calculation, these heroic guys were awarded orders for courage of the third degree there was a lot of mortar fire, but the enemy, having an advantage in the number of personnel, fired machine guns and mortars, the guys say that they held positions further

, but fired at the enemy until the last ammunition . hail ago, there was no transport of the bull, i had to leave and got out of the damage, all the health was still given to the enemy, they issued them volnovaha , in fact, ceased to exist, the aggressor took over the city. only after destroying it, the enemy was confident such barbarism will demoralize our soldiers and make them flee in panic to ukraine, but the guys gave them a surprise, they set up firing positions near the city for several hours and the orcs had already arrived. we didn't expect to meet them so early, we didn't even think that they were thinking, some of us just didn't warn them, and they thought they they came in, they came

in to relax, they thought everything was there ukrainians got scared and ran away who are they, we look at each other for 700 meters , no identification marks are visible at all, the pause lasted almost 10 minutes until our fighters saw the well-known letter z in zuma of their anti-tank complexes, then when the equipment had already left, it was already on the side of the zetka, then we started working like that, we were the first to open fire. they were hit immediately and lasted for more than three hours, the guys destroyed an enemy tank, two bmps and several infantry trucks, the collodion destroyed 21 units of armored vehicles, these are bmp tanks, armored personnel carriers, trucks that

transported personnel, so we are focused on destroyed equipment, the practical experience of hostilities showed that the ukrainian-made stugnape works in the best way, it is a long-range loss, it sits far away, well, not right next to it, if that is, it is visible, for example, a bts goes along it, a missile hits it, and what happens next with it, and it is very powerful, there are chances here she doesn't leave a tank, mostly guys in the brigade, about 50% - they are from the luhansk region, some of them already have no houses, many guys started to worry about their loved ones, their families, and because uh, they were captured military commissars, which unfortunately, some were not taken away, documents were not destroyed, that is, they began to search for the participants in hostilities, their families, the persecution was probably a knight of the order for

courage with a call sign, a nobleman lost his home for the first time in 2014, fleeing from the russian invaders, the young man left his native luhansk we i left my mother's house. and i didn't have that. i left for lysychansk, with only my passport and everything, even the writing on the last train, and i've been here for 18 years. i understood the idea that i have to defend my country from such occupiers who doesn't like something. if you don't like a suitcase, a train station, russia. hello, without having experienced something like this , it's hard to even imagine the feelings of this heroic guy, because the racists once again broke into his house and now he is forced to start life over for the second time. at the age of 21, i married a girl last year. now i was forced to be there. friends, border guards , take into account the city of lysychansk, because there we are fighting, the apartments are already broken, i don’t have apartments, but we will

take revenge on them, as they say, for every soldier, for every child, for every family, in oleksiy chulpanova who protects ukraine even since 2014, the elderly parents of the father have remained in occupied donetsk, he is paralyzed, he asked to take them out at least somehow through the red cross, but he cannot stand such a road, the resolute people know perfectly well who he is, that is why for the last eight years, oleksiy's relatives have been watched by the enemy's special services, waiting for the heart i can't stand my husband and he doesn't give in to his parents. yes, they are open to service. i think i'll come in and they call me a male

suddenly . captain bondar captain bondar is sitting behind him. he has an animal excitement. give me targets, i will tear them all apart. he just rushes there. he went from battery commander to division commander. now we are taking him to be introduced to the division as a division commander. the commander of the second artillery division vladyslav bondar belongs to the officers of the new generation, these guys were born and grew up in independent ukraine in 2019. vladyslav completed his studies at the academy of ground forces and immediately got into the 53rd brigade in the zone holding the oo on february 24, the captain met motivated and ready to defend the homeland. professional, we worked on all the goals given to us by the chief of artillery, infantry, no matter what, we were always ready to perform any firing task

, day and night, any weather, we were ready and eager. we asked to give us goals, give us what not keep quiet, let's rain, but this is our job, this is our professional modern war does not allow artillerymen to set up stationary firing positions, because the enemy widely uses aerial reconnaissance that's why our self-propelled guns are constantly moving and camouflaged among the endless ukrainian fields, the crews actually live in their cars. good day , everything is oriented, the battery is ready to advance to the firing position at any moment, because the machine gunner max and the compass operator dima also have special accounts with the occupiers, the guys from donbass and mariupol donetsk oblast luhansk oblast village of verkhne olhova left behind parents sister with family

brothers with family wife with child recently left most difficult for fighters no contact with loved ones the only reassurance is the rumors from people who got out of the hell of the racist occupation, telling me what i see there, my mother is alive and well, everything is fine, they saw my father there, everything is fine, don't worry, the batteries for the car are being calculated, the guys are just now advancing to the combat position, the radio operator of the command and staff vehicle received a signal to hit several enemy targets handed it over to the commander of the self-propelled guns immediately rush to take up firing positions, return what belongs to us, our home, return the guns to the target and strike, after firing, the machines immediately make the so-called

the boys change positions and carefully disguise them until the occupiers come to their senses. and they did not open fire in return. at the beginning of the full-scale war, many veterans of the fighters who served in the 53rd earlier returned to the brigade. i want to say that the right people are needed, of course. so, tell me what to do. i'm leaving . oleksiy not only returned himself, but also brought his father, ivchenko sr., to the brigade. he left his home in the city of tokmak in zaporozhye. literally a few hours before the arrival of the occupiers on the 26th, early in the morning, the orcs were already under the tokmak, my father called and said, “you are going

. yes, i am also going . i served for three years. well, it will be calmer for me here, as a result, nothing is more peaceful. i am still here after the hospital. and he is there. oleksiy received a battle wound. now he is recovering and gaining strength. there are practically no wounded. then they said that his son was wounded serhii ivchenko , a ukrainian farmer grew vegetables with the help of modern technologies, he grew potatoes, cabbage, garlic, beets, radishes and everything like that this year everything is empty, i hope that next year in the spring we will plant everything,

we will return it, we will try as soon as possible there will still be victory, everything will be ukraine , we will fight back everything and we will cultivate the land cultivate the land what is the difference and these 53rd brigades rush into battle in the literal sense of being at the front on the line of direct contact with the enemy for most of the soldiers are already in the garden here, they still deserve to go there, and no one who didn’t deserve to go there stays here, so the guys rush there at a run and it’s not just words, it’s possible for us to go and chat , they can’t talk at all as part of the crew, we’ll go well under guard, we’ll take the shells to radio intercepts of the enemy, the occupying units are increasingly simply afraid to enter the open side with the ukrainian military, here the 810th sevastopol marine brigade stood against us, they had a detachment of a company

, almost in full, refused to fight refused to fight, now this whole company is sitting in volnovas, in the comments they are being prosecuted there. well, those who did not want to go to prison, they went to die in the 14th year, these are the people, this is how it was now, and who here and there captured crimea. who cares was in donbas, someone would have advanced, there would have been nothing like this at all, the level of our army has really grown significantly, and it is not only about the motivation of soldiers and officers . high to the high commander, that is, each unit can already make

its own decisions and work completely autonomously, and he taught this clearly, it was the post-moscow russian army that still learns and fights according to old soviet methods, while nato standards were created precisely to counter the military machine of the ussr, western armies learned do not control the soviet quantity, the quality of their personnel and equipment. well, they shoot so randomly, we shoot with accuracy, if you take statistics on all fronts, we release 5 per day 000 shells, they produce 60-70 thousand outfits, they produce 60-70, we don’t waste a lot

of shells, aiming and hitting accurately. in the same apc, the same tank, and it’s been like that since the first days of the war. we see that foreign partners are helping us, and the weapons are gone and personal the warehouse has already grown a lot on its own, people know how to work with tablets and drones, they long for it and this does not give us an advantage, also 100% we have to surpass them in connection with intelligence aero intelligence, that is, when there is a battle on the battlefield, we have several birds from above they are watching they are correcting both us and the artillery, the modern philosophy of war is strikingly different from the tactics of the rashists, where individual fighters are still used as cannon fodder, and he will be a silent whore, then his relatives will suffer, their children will continue to suffer,

and who came in, young guys, they just leave 15 people they calmly walk across the field with boxes and backpacks to our positions, they don’t even know that we are there. well, there are 15 people left in this field by now, the sunflowers are probably already sprouting in this way combat reconnaissance, similar to the development of combat , was used by the soviet command in the years of the second world war . this is how the soviet command detected the enemy's firing positions. don't wait and slap the desired one on board, they have fakes, but our army is invincible. they don't show the facts completely. on

the 20th, the poor marines ran away from these reeds, they caught their sweets cookies especially since the beginning of this full -scale invasion of the russian federation, everything fell into place, it showed who is who, but despite modern tactics and weapons, war remains dirty men's work, the guys

are in battles on the front lines for weeks, so a mobile bathhouse for a soldier, and holy, here they can finally - people, wash, iron, get fresh , dry clothes, and it's not only about this, but here's some additional movement, entertainment, saw the boys, bathed, vent, it's very nice, so warm water in general, a class instead of a world of trenches, landings, and enemy shelling, the boys briefly get to a place where there is no war, they cleanse not only the body, but also relieve themselves psychologically.