from donetsk region, he was a mountaineer in a peaceful life, then he fought as part of the dnipro-1 volunteer battalion for oleksiy, like many other soldiers of the 53rd, this war began in the spring of 2014. after the first pro-russian rallies in donetsk in 14th year, i also served the donbas arena and previous rallies from the roof. i saw how many buses with rostov license plates were standing. it seemed that this was surrealism, something that could not be like this. i called my friend from ivano-frankivsk. he said that no one but you will fight for your land. was the final decision as early as 2015. the 53rd defended the avdiyivka-upper-toretske strip in donetsk region, later fought with the enemy on the legendary svetodar arc, although the newly created brigade

did not even have its own ppd at the time, i.e., a point of permanent deployment. there was a place to leave the equipment, we had a legal point where we started to build the ppd, they started to build it severodonetsk airport, the city of severodonetsk in the luhansk region was still destroyed by the russians occupiers, more than 90% of its inhabitants ran for their lives in may 2020. the 53rd brigade bears the honorary name of prince volodymyr monomakh in the notes of volodymyr monomakh to his descendants. even before going to bed, first check all posts.

look through these posts yourself and go to bed . it turns out 53 was named volodymyr monomakh for a reason, because it was he who became famous for his successful fight against the hordes that invaded our lands from the east, the full-scale aggression of the russian army officially began on february 24, the brigade units that stood on the front line of the defense had their own story, and they began to cover us with all types of weapons except for aviation. somewhere 8-10 days before the start of the war, we did not respond so that there would be no provocations. our soldiers hoped to the last that they only want to provoke them to a response with massed fire, so that they can later be blamed for the shelling of the residents of donbas, behind whom

russia was hiding. it is finally clear that the long shelling was a classic artillery preparation before a decisive mood for which the insidious enemy had long and carefully prepared, they hit powerfully , they hit us on the communication on the control on the control before this fire, they cleaned the equipment , fired according to the enemy's plan, a strike on the communication and logistics was supposed to completely destroy the brigade's fighting capacity, deprive its units of control and supply of the most necessary things, they didn't even have the opportunity to supply provisions for the first 200 the locals fed us there for 4-5 days, the enemy hoped that the ukrainian soldiers would get scared and run, because

according to military normative documents, a huge russian group should have quickly defeated the 53rd brigade, the brigade could hold out for 2-3 days, but the brigade held on and is holding on. until now, but not the invaders 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 the event 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 cannot feel free there. lt. col. yevhen kravchenko is one of those who was not frightened by the total superiority of the enemy, moreover, for the first time, the hottest days . i received the reception of the commander of the first battalion, who

was with me, well, his predecessor, he was wounded in the first battles, so the brigade commander accordingly called me and said that accordingly, well i need to raise the flag, as you say, and continue to lead the unit, so i didn’t hesitate even for a second and immediately at two in the morning i already went to the unit, but successful infantry operations are impossible without cooperation with other types of troops, especially for the queen of the fields, the help of the artillerymen of the gods of war, artillery, the basis of fire defeating the enemy, no operation is complete without artillery training and support, what happens when you talk to the commander of the road unit you support, he tells you oh, you did a great job, well done bull, where a ton and everything is smoking everything is on fire the enemy is running or something else you have destroyed the enemy that is, yes, when the infantry is happy with its work you understand that you are in the right

place and doing the right things despite the heroic resistance under the blows of the overwhelming forces of the enemy to the fighters of the 53rd brigade we had to retreat , we held out with our brigade. we held back normally for the first three days, they did not advance a single step, then when tanks came into our cell from the 54th side. well, then we already began to regroup, began to withdraw, but we always held the line. and now we keep the men, the units of the brigade, in particular, and the gunners, only by a miracle then we avoided encirclement and defeat, they took all the imports and toys that were there and left, it turns out that we didn’t leave. we escaped thanks to the fact that we received the order to leave in time. it was difficult to leave at night on dirt, then on asphalt. it is about 10 km in armor from bc with weapons and equipment,

the deputy commander of the self-propelled artillery division, roman masli, was tasked to lead the division of business support, liaison officers, repairmen, cooks, it was necessary to re- set up in a safe place the ancient cossack village of pokrovske, where the convoy stopped, located in the dnipropetrovsk region. but on that critical day, it seemed that the enemy was about to break through, and after talking with local farmers, he even began to form a partisan unit, yes, they were going to partisan in the literal sense, there were tanks, lord yes, in some places we negotiated real strength, you just don’t go anywhere, you stay here we will give you everything, everything you need, we will give everything, i will honestly say that the hunters even brought cartridges yes they checked there so that nothing would leak, they would level it so that it would be even, so that this too and there

was no film, and they will run it ten of ours, well, something was leaking, here's how you do it, and you'll live or you'll be up to your knees, we're together with 53- they built buildings 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. preservation of 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 remained and at this very time the advanced units of the 53rd could hold the defense in donbas the epic battle for volnovach took place for more than three weeks. the defenders of the city held back the wild attacks of the overwhelming enemy. these are the guys from the anti-tank division of the 53rd brigade . footage of ukrainian anti-tankers expertly destroying enemy equipment went viral all over the world. with javelins or stugna, and in the battles for volnovasha, the boys had to learn new specialties in order to beat the enemy side by side with their comrades. we have all kinds of tours, they seem to be bulky and you have to maneuver with them. in volnovasha, there were problems with this because the artillery simply worked 24/7 mortars

, artillery, aviation, i.e., with such dense fire , movement is practically reduced to zero, they converge to zero, they had to retrain from anti-tankers to infantrymen, they learned through war, rushing to capture the city, the enemy in the literal sense covered the ukrainian positions with the corpses of his cells when i found out that the russians entered iryna's chernobyl, bought in chernobyl and plowed the mines, well, it's just amazing because the person who entered received an insane dose of radiation, what is radiation sickness or he will die now or tomorrow and destroyed then the next ones just went ahead and with such constant attacks, they tried to weaken our defense psychologically, it is quite difficult to hold on like this in these places, but the fighters stand and withstand such

loads and these waves and waves of attackers they repulse the attackers, the attackers also do not understand how it is, how it is possible to hold back after unsuccessful attempts to take the volnovakha from the onslaught, sur switched to the scorched earth tactic, which at one time was loved by hitler's criminals, calling this madness a total war to destroy the enemy . it remains so and the mongols are destructive, for sure , yes, they concentrate very a lot of artillery and they begin to simply demolish the buildings of the street and the portal behind the block of khorolska ryadochka accepted a plus big big there is a daughter of food sometimes breaking it at 90 80 dollars big big big i dot you prepare one and we pour gas on everyone 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 of these heroic guys awarded orders for courage of the third degree with mortar fire a lot of ridges were mowed down but having the enemy we have an advantage in the number of personnel, pe-per, through machine guns, mortars, the guys say that they held their positions further, but fired at the enemy all the way to the last ammunition, the machine that delivered because the press was destroyed and the art was shot by the bm-21 installation. a hundred years ago there was no delivery of the bull , he had to leave and came out due to health damage, and then he gave the enemy concessions, they gave them volnovaha, in fact, ceased to exist, the aggressor

took over the city. only by destroying it completely, the enemy was sure that barbarism will demoralize our troops and make them flee in panic deep into ukraine, but the guys gave them a surprise, they set up fire positions near the city for several hours and the orcs have already arrived, we did not expect to meet them so early they didn't even think what they were thinking, some of our people just didn't warn them, but they thought they were coming in, they were coming in to relax, they thought it was all there, the ukrainians were scared, ran away, i wish well, let's understand who is this person, we are looking at 700 meters, no identification marks are visible at all, a strange pause lasted almost 10 minutes until our fighters saw the well-known letter z in the zuma of their anti-tank complexes, then when the equipment left, it was already on the side of the zetka, then we started working like that, we

were the first to open fire. stugna stood in two positions. they had to control the roads. they rolled out onto these roads and we hit them immediately. it lasted for more than three hours. the guys destroyed an enemy tank, two bmps and several trucks from the infantry. it was placed in a shelter near the division. the division destroyed 21 units of armored vehicles . warehouse, we are focused on the destruction of equipment, the practical experience of combat operations has shown that the ukrainian-made stugnape works best, for example, a bt goes on it, a missile hits it, and what happens next with this and she is very powerful, just a chance, a tank, she does not leave, mostly, mainly the guys in the brigade,

about 50% - they are from the luhansk region, some already have no houses, many guys began to worry precisely for their loved ones, for their families, and because the military commissars were captured which, unfortunately, some were not taken away, the documents were not destroyed, that is, they began to search for the participants in the hostilities, their families, the persecution was definitely a knight of the order for courage with the call sign, the nobleman first lost his home in 2014, escaping from the russian of the occupiers, the young man left his native luhansk. we left my mother's house. and i didn't have that. we left for lysychansk, so for a drink, only a passport and everything for a message on the last train, and i've been here for 18 years. i understood the idea that i have to protect my country from

such occupiers who don't care i like it if i don't like the suitcase, the 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 broke into his home again and now he is forced to start life over again at the age of 21, i'm in the past year, i married a girl, now i am forced to be there by friends of the border guard to mark the city of lysychansk because there we are here, there are breakdowns in the apartment, i don’t have apartments anymore, they were broken, but i will take revenge on them, as they say, for every soldier, for every child, for every family, in oleksiy chulpanova, who protects ukraine more since 2014, the elderly parents of the father have remained in occupied donetsk, the paralyzed man asked to take them out at least somehow through the red cross, but he cannot bear such a journey, he cannot decide,

they know perfectly well who he is, that is why the last eight years have been with his relatives oleksiy is being watched by the enemy special services, they are waiting when the man's heart can't take it and he doesn't give in to his parents, yes, they are open under there is a car that is on duty, they are under constant surveillance by the special services, i think i will come in, they are a male rapunzel no, i will go with the army, someone has an animal fear manifested someone has the opposite azart, here sits captain bondar behind him captain bondar is next to him here he has an animal azart appeared give me a target, i will tear everyone apart, he just rushes there he went from the battery commander to the division commander now we are taking him to present him 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, the area of ​​operation 24 in february, the captain met a motivated and ready to defend the homeland professional, we worked on all the goals given to us by the chief of artillery, the infantry, no matter what, were always ready to perform any firing task day and night, whatever the weather, we were ready and eager. we asked to give us targets, let's not be silent. 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 , so our self-propelled guns are constantly moving and camouflaged among the endless ukrainian fields, the crews

actually live in their cars. good day. i wish you good health. everything is fine. the machine gun is working. it is ready to come forward at any moment. the position of the machine gunner max and the compass player dima also have special accounts with the occupiers, boys from donbas and mariupol, donetsk region, luhansk region, the village of verkhne olhova, parents, sister, family , brothers and family, wife and child recently left , the most difficult for the fighters is lack of contact with loved ones the only reassurance is clear from the people who got out of the hell of the racha occupation telling me what i see there, my mother is alive and well, everything is fine, they saw my father there, everything is fine. the radiotelephone operator of the command and staff vehicle received

a signal to hit several enemy targets, passed it on to the battery commander, all at once rush to take up firing positions, we return what belongs to us, our home, turn the guns on the target and strike, after firing, the vehicles immediately perform the so-called rollover, the guys change positions and carefully disguise them until the occupiers came to their senses and did not open fire in return, with the beginning of a full-scale war, many veteran fighters who served in the 53rd earlier returned to the brigade on february 24, oleksiy ivchenko woke up as a peaceful kyiv marketer. as soon as i found out, i

called khatab and said that the right people are needed, of course. so, tell me what to do. i'm leaving. a few hours before the arrival of the occupiers 26 early in the morning right in the morning at 5 o'clock in the morning the orcs were already under the tokmak father called and said you are going yes i am also going i say where but without any difference i want the infantry i am going tomorrow to i don't speak to the military commissariat. i prefer you. they moved here purposefully because he has been here since the 14th year. he served me here for three years . as a result, it will be calmer. as a result, i am calmer. i am still here after the hospital. and he is there. oleksiy received

a combat wound. now he is recovering and gaining strength . there are practically no injured people there, they just tear them apart and everything was hidden from me for two days, then they said that my son was wounded serhii ivchenko , a ukrainian farmer grew vegetables with the help of modern technologies, grew potatoes and cabbage garlic, beets, radishes and everything like that, well , everything is empty this year, i hope that next year in the spring we will plant everything, we will try to return it as soon as possible. anyway, there will be victory, everything will be ukraine, we will recapture everything and cultivate the land, cultivate the land that the soldiers of the 53rd brigade took part in the battle in in the literal sense, to be at the front on the line of direct contact with the enemy, for most soldiers, this is already a reward here, he still deserved

to go there, but no one deserved to stay here, so the guys rush there, it's not just words it can, it can go and talk, they can’t chat at all as part of the crew, we will go well under guard, we will carry the radio intercepted by the enemy, the units of the occupiers are more and more often simply afraid to engage in open combat with the ukrainian military, here the 810th sevastopol marine brigade stood against us, they have almost a company division in full force refused to fight refused to fight now this whole company is sitting in volnovas in the comments they are being prosecuted there criminal cases well, those who did not want to go to prison went to die in the 14th in 2014, the people were like this, that's how it was now. but

who captured crimea, there would have been nothing like that, nothing really happened, the level of our army has increased significantly, and it's not only about the motivation of soldiers and officers. after 2014, the armed forces brigades underwent multiple trainings and training according to nato standards is the difference because not everything is screwed up by a high -ranking commander. that is, each unit can already make its own decisions and work completely autonomously. old soviet methods, while nato standards were created precisely to counter the military

machine of the ussr, western armies learned not to dictate the soviet quantity, the quality of their personnel and equipment, the language, they shoot so randomly , we shoot with accuracy, if you take the statistics on all fronts, we release 5,000 shells per day, they they release 60-70,000 $5,000, but do not miss 670, we do not spend a lot of projectiles, aiming and hitting accurately. in the same armored personnel carrier, the same tank, and it has been like this since the first days of the war, we see that foreign partners are helping us and the weapons have gone and the personnel has already grown a lot on its own, these people know how to work with tablets and drones, they aspire to it. and this does not give us an advantage, and 100% must surpass them in terms of intelligence

, aero-intelligence, i.e. when there is a battle on the battlefield, we have several birds from above. they watch, they adjust both us and the artillery. today, the philosophy of war is strikingly different from the tactics of the rashists. until now, individual fighters have been used as cannon fodder, and he will be silent. then they will be his relatives will suffer, their children will continue to suffer, and who came in, young guys, they just go out, 15 people calmly walk across the field with boxes with backpacks, they go to the positions towards us, they don’t even know that we are there. well, there are 15 people, and now there are only 15 people left in this field the sunflowers are probably already sprouting. this is how reconnaissance is carried out by combat, similar to the development of combat . it was used by the soviet command even in the years of the second world war. this is how

the enemy's firing positions were detected. artillery, aviation, it is necessary to immediately work like a sniper, only in this way to outwit the enemy, to climb into a place where he is not waiting and hit the desired one in their side, they have fakes. our army is invincible . these reeds caught their cookies,

especially from the beginning of the full-scale invasion of the russian federation, everything fell into place, everything fell into place, it showed who is who, despite modern tactics and weapons, the war it remains dirty men's work, the boys are in battles on the front lines for weeks, therefore, a mobile bathhouse for a soldier is holy, here they can finally humanely wash, iron, get fresh , dry clothes, and the matter is not only that, but here is some additional movement, entertainment, saw the boys, bathed, vent, very nice, yes 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, as if there is no war, they cleanse not only the body, but also psychologically, as they say, did well, how did i go to the front at home? they are waiting for this bath. it is like a gym. well, i don’t know. it is a small nirvana, you understand. after the bath, the fighters return to their firing positions. the boys are washed and ready for god. none of them know for sure what will happen tomorrow with each of them. a warrior personally, who will put his head down and who will remain a stream, the bloodiest war of the beginning of the xxi century is in full swing and the

guys have no doubt that ukraine will defeat another horde of conquerors, it will be broken and thrown out of our land, but for this, a lot more needs to be done 271 days of bloody soldier's work he