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their own business the grant can be directed to start a business or develop it own a garden or a greenhouse, an atelier or a bakery, many opportunities for work, dreams, everything simply has life, water in the documents, the state supported, works for victory, there is a job, work in ukraine this is where it starts the city of chernihiv and this battered and stitched stela became a symbol of the heroism of ukrainian soldiers who defended the city back in april. on this mountain there were graves of ukrainian soldiers who held the entire height to the last. why did the

russians need it so much that they razed it to the ground? we decided that what about it is definitely necessary to tell about other key battles for the city that completely broke the plans of the russians to take kyiv in three days and forced them to flee under the guise of a gesture of goodwill, only the military will be our heroes, this is a look at those the events of both professional soldiers and volunteers, soldiers, recruits, generals and colonels , and at the moment this is the most complete history of the defense of chernigov, based on the memories of the direct participants in those events, all the citizens of chernigov who remained in the city until the very end, and those who were forced to leave here because of the war felt the presence of our soldiers and believed in them now we can show them september

2021 russia and belarus are holding joint exercises event 20-21 according to the information of the russian military leadership involved 200,000 soldiers, 80 airplanes and helicopters, almost 300 tanks and two and a half hundred artillery systems, troops are firing, storming and landing we are entering the exercises, dictators vladimir putin and alexander lukashenko are watching after their completion, russian propagandists report 2021 and meat maneuvers the main task of the armed forces of russia and belarus is to ensure the security of the union state, as vladimir emphasized, let it be the sky, i am directed against anyone and carried a lot of units of equipment on the territory of belarus, which were then used in the volyn region to seize the territory

of ukraine from october to december, they carried out intensive maneuvering in whole btggers, that is, they drove helmets, the equipment drove, they also gave distances of 100-200-300 km in order to introduce us into the sumama of charging equipment to the borders of ukraine continues until the beginning of the winter of 2021 opposite chernihiv oblast and sumy, a group of troops with its headquarters and headquarters in the settlement of union chasobranskaya oblast, their plans were signed, er, somewhere in early january, this is somewhere from the 10th to the 15th, there were all orders there, plans for use, and so on. at the beginning of february 2022, the number of the russian group was estimated at 130,000 fighters two weeks before the invasion russia and belarus are conducting another exercise on the territory of the latter. union determination as a military man. i always expect that it is possible to attack against them, but it is the absurdity of this attack, that is, the use of missiles

, the use of aviation, artillery in the xxi century well, in a certain sense, she raised doubts, although let's say when our training began, well, i'm more inclined to believe that the invasion will be like this, this is archival footage of ukrainian exercises, a blizzard in chernihiv oblast, that's how the first separate tank-sever brigade was preparing for the meeting with the russians. coordination we lived in field conditions, every time we worked out how to defend ourselves, how to conduct offensives. i felt, do you understand, that 7-8 thousand kilometers just like that, the tanks of the brigade will protect no one during the training, the movement of the unit for the implementation of matches at long distances over 300 km was concentrated. for about three weeks, we spent the night in the area already in the tanks, all of them were loaded there, equipped with tapes, equipped with dynamic protection with refueled and so

on, we were already training, we were conducting shootings, we were conducting training, we were already preparing for war, a few days before the invasion, major general viktor nikolyuk is going to check the readiness of the troops on on the border of the entire territory of cherni, lviv oblast, and sumy oblast, they checked all the checkpoints at which i, uh, we understood that from there there might be a return as a senior, colonel dmytro bryzhynskyi remains in chernihiv. before that, he commanded the 93rd brigade of kholodny yar, and it was under his command in in october 2021, the bayraktar was used for the first time in the donbass on february 22. he still does not fully believe in a full-scale invasion. for two days, i returned home with a weapon, which we were trying to figure out that there might be some kind of sabotage, some thieves there, that’s

what we call them, they can use the unpreparedness of the steering wheel . he was coming back , parking the car in another block, so he was returning on foot in the evening of february 23. dmytro bryzhynskyi, appointed head of the chernigov defense staff, receives two messages at 11:30 p.m. and received an e-mail from the military counterintelligence service that a large-scale invasion is planned tomorrow and literally an hour later, the next e-mail is about the fact that it is all a fake - it is an information entry, well, that is, it is possible to evaluate in different ways who sent the second e-mail at this time, the latest statements of the us president biden regarding the russian ukrainian border guards are discussing the invasion in the

dnipro village bordering belarus, it's interesting, let's go in the car, guys, i'm protecting the article from biden. well, there will be an attack on ukraine at four in the morning on the 24th. well, well it's already the third day and the third time they are attacking , that is, we laughed here, that's how it all turned out dniprovsk will be the first to be hit by a sub-russian strike in chernihiv oblast at 4:20 a tent camp of border guards is being fired upon from a drone from the side of belarus i had a wound in my hand and in my hand i am raising my hand and more blood that is, there are explosions, the guys fell under the bed and i still can’t get up to orientate viktor’s sprint bed, a villager and six more wounded border guards are taken away by ambulances, at this time his surviving comrades blow up bridge across the dnipro to prevent the russians from breaking through, and from this direction the first strikes in chernihiv oblast hit the border outposts

of the state emergency service airfield in nizhyn and the training corps of the 1st tank brigade in honcharivskoe tens of kilometers around, at about 6:20 a.m. the first arrival was this rocket hit our training building. well, where my battalion was engaged , the first regiment with a rocket came there. brigade, they were dispersed, which made it possible when the first tank was hit by a missile, all the equipment, all ammunition was saved, it was already around six o'clock in the morning, we were already flying to the advanced command post, i then guessed from my husband to call back while the language was around 6:00 in the morning, we said goodbye then. and what can you

say when you don’t know what will happen in half an hour? units of the visk -center group are advancing on chernihiv oblast and sumy oblast. in total, this is about 30,000 soldiers and 10,000 pieces of equipment. 5,000 vehicles were in the chernihiv direction and about 13,000 13,000 people, that is, directly in the chernihiv area and in the south-northwest part of the cherkasy region , there was a battle against the defense group, whether or not they entered between the checkpoints, e.e., dobryanka and senkivka, from across the territory the belarusians entered through the vegetable garden and then moved towards the turnips on mykhailo kotsyubynske, that the capital

will be enough for further and direct until noon on february 24. columns of equipment at the beginning we, er, thought, wow, there are 10 units of equipment 200-31 from equipment, then if there were less than 500, then we almost did not pay attention. stretched from chernigov and until the end of the year, you don't see any equipment anywhere, and for you to move at the same time, such a number of equipment from several directions for the first time in your life, so which russian units went to capture chernigov, these are the military units of the 41st combined army, the 35th separate the guards motorized rifle brigade from the altai territory, the 74th separate guards motorized rifle

brigade from the kemerovo region, and the 55th separate motorized rifle brigade of the stova. this is exactly what its military will do later. the 90th tank division was also used, part of its strength was given to the 41st army to strengthen and take you and i to chernihiv , the forces were at the same level at the beginning of the invasion, the chernihiv direction was covered by two brigades of the armed forces, the 1st tank and 58th motorized infantry units were also deployed for defense in the chernihiv direction . the national guard regiment from shostka from the main units in chernihiv also had parts of the national guard already during the active hostilities in the city. the border guards were constantly coming to the city. later on, the enemy still had an advantage both in the number of fighters and especially in the number of equipment. they knew that

i was only the first tankova and the 58 became a sort of two brigades for three brigades and this well and a half of the tank division, that is, a little, er, well, the advantage is definitely on their side . there were 21 tanks in chernihiv in march, they were concentrated in each direction along the main street leading to the center of the ratio . with an eight-headed snake like a mountain snake, what is it fighting? probably, that’s how it was, because that’s how it turned out. well, one head stuck out on the turnip . they cut it off once. the head pops out. there, they cut it off once at 1:30, and that’s how it was. on all sides, crimes were committed in the chernivtsi region. if we were to assess the direction of chernihiv , then the enemy had enough power and means

to eventually take the city of chernihiv . what was the importance of chernihiv for the russians? control over the city was necessary for the offensive. to kyiv, chernihiv , in case of capture, was supposed to become a kind of logistics hub for the russian troops halfway to the capital, to take kiev in three days, but on their way it became chernihiv, having received chernihiv. we ah held one of the main directions of blocking kyiv to the north and east there is such a concept of a shoulder of the supply shoulder of military supplies, that is, the brovary group, which came, as i said, from the side of the ropes, they saw the stopkin, and they had a shoulder of the supply somewhere up to 300 km, and you yourself understand when you have somewhere from 2015-20 group, and there are 3:5-6 thousand units of equipment in order to bring them down and introduce intensive combat operations, a lot

of equipment is needed, and through chernihiv, this shoulder was much less than half a-a, and after providing e-e movement along the highway, well, there are 95 per - our m-01 and they were able to solve it task this task more effectively on the first day of the invasion, the russians are in a hurry to advance as far as possible, they advanced very quickly, and in order to stop them, there were such moments that literally right under their noses, they were already 1.5-2 km away from the bridge and had to blow up this bridge in haste in order to somehow stop them and direct them, we need a channel, we forced them to get off the asphalted roads, we forced them to go into the fields, they got completely bogged down in the swamps, where we easily got them out, this was already an easy goal, it was for the first time to keep the defense on the line of ripka horodnia due to the rapid advance of the russians, it had to be adjusted already on the first day. thank god that we

deviated a little from this defense plan, no matter how painful it is to admit it, but with such a horde, with such a mass, with such an enemy, we were not fighters, we were not ready, we were in an honest field to fight with them because we would have simply washed away empty spaces, they would have entered chernihiv very easily, that is why we were forced to disperse them and force them to fight where we needed it in chernihiv, so they bombed chernihiv, but we had to let them go further from the border and pull it out on itself, if a strong one has to fight against them on its territory, partially surrender the territory, pull it out and in small groups already inflict damage on it here and there and there, bleeding the main combat units on february 24 to meet the russians already near chernigov, the units advance first of a separate

northern tank brigade, the rivkind highway near chernigov, here in the evening of february 24, russian troops who had previously marched tens of kilometers were ambushed, first by us there were missions to cover our artillery in order to stop the enemy on the approaches, that is, our grads were working and we ensured their stable operation there, covering up certain facts and we are just taking a smoke break. after a full package of shells, then we ask the gunner what it was, he says, “this is a war, we were before that . literally in a week, we carried out 97 operations, and at this turn, a mechanized company advanced over there. in zaripkams, there was literally such a forest of young people, this area, a company advanced there, that is, they

studied the area, and thanks to this, the tank brigade restrained the personnel. was driving reinforced by tanks at full steam, we then pulled back the tanks and ambushed the battalion commander there at the gate. started the artillery, and already the noise of the artillery, they worked just from the front, their first column was destroyed almost 100%. they didn’t even understand. they might have thought that it was artillery

hiding. their second column went the same way. when they took the prisoner, when they asked the fool, well, the leaders climbed up and told us that it was the ukropovsky tanks that were broken. they even lied to their own so that they wouldn’t be afraid, and in practically the same place. for a couple of hours, we destroyed the second column during the battle, the reserve under the leadership of the lieutenant colonel goes to help the main forces artema linkova enters the command of the officer from the north and says that he met two columns with a counter- fight and no lady. well, it is not clear who went back and forth. at first there were three tanks under his command. my car broke down, another car also overheated . in short, i have already reached there was a roadblock near the turn on khlyavyntsya, soldiers of the first tank brigade, so and so, we went there, our guys went there. well, we need

to help the guys in order to get someone alive there or something. you have two bekhs and you will go. well, i went to the dance. two bekhs rolled up. and we decided. this is my car. there are tanks and dead people. at the moment when he reached this settlement, he is already in his life. i understand that. bmpeshki you are burning towards me that's right this bmp is ahead and i'm not even talking do you see the fire fire yet so you are real shooting at the bmw it doesn't interfere with everything vali igor go ahead stick still made after this tank it flies hard into it everything was flying near the turret kamaza was lying around a russian soldier was killed lying on his back, i can definitely see what happened next, right, smoke one tiger was set up by the working guys, then he was taken away from the infantry, too. well, i think it’s like a familiar

bmp -2 vehicle. there is a flag of the state flag on the antenna. but i don't have any of these circles, these are russian, because now they will definitely fill up theirs. so when we took all of their things, i installed them along the chevron. it was all the marines, the reconnaissance of the marines in the first on the day of the invasion near chernigov, a reconnaissance platoon of the 74th motorized rifle brigade of russia appeared. all about 25 km from the city of ukraine are mostly not

involved in the hostilities, only the battalions of the ukrainian nazis are providing strong resistance, at the moment, the units of the russian armed forces federation has completed the blockade of the city of chernihiv vtomykov reports on the blockade of chernihiv and says that the ukrainian army is not resisting february 25, the armed forces break up another column of russian vehicles, now already on the outskirts of the city. the support was hit by fire by the forces of the missile division, the whole column actually burned down armored personnel carrier bmp tanks e-e artillery bm-21 was destroyed i don’t know

order probably until 21.11. and in the direction of ripkin, the russian army is making a second attempt to break through to chernihiv, the village of khalyavyn, from here to the center of chernihiv, some 13 km, and precisely at this intersection in the morning of february 25, the armed forces meet the russian troops , they gave us an order, that is, to put it bluntly, to tie it up with them the battle is back and the battle is to force them to deploy in combat formations. and at this time, our artillery was supposed to work again on the morning of the 25th . in the same direction, the krylon is moving in the direction of chernigov . up to fifty units of russian equipment have taken up positions here, two tanks, one another on the right side, a little closer, we will be directly on duty, but there was no post, and we,

as infantrymen, were ordered to reinforce the tank group , there were three of our bmps, one remained here on the cover , well, actually, we visit the tanks, you went directly to the psychiatric hospital, the flank was occupied so as not to miss a breakthrough, so as not to bypass, roughly speaking, in our work, we had such an uprising there there is a hill. there we laid down at 26 rpm. well , they call us flies. well, we lay down. they gave out the same to the majority. then they put a new one of our fighter in the same one, as they say, with different eggs on the very assumption that he was already watching and in what way. will the column andriy go here, the very soldier who was entrusted with the checkpoint nostalgia for the checkpoint nostalgia the morning of the 25th was such a beautiful sunny morning i already understood that the village where i come from is a short distance away ripnivskyi district is already under occupation someone came

russian troops, well, if i was worried about my family, i remained an observer at this checkpoint . well, i found out that the enemy column was already on its way, made a couple of short lines and from the left side began to move here closer to my own, and after that they again informed the senior authorities, i understood that way they raised a bird in the air and after that they heard that the artillery was working and our tanks saw them sooner , we had a slightly more advantageous position, we were on top when they started to work, fired shots well, they were maneuvering because actually tankists so loved the lottery of our artillery during this period, when the fighting began, we still had our bmp here, now there was only a mechanic, a driver and a gunner, no gunner, the same thing with bmps, they hid like that, it turns out that he did not see the closed position of the enemy himself, but they were fighting by name

to shoot somewhere, somewhere it was added to five shots , because after that they started to leave there only a little because there started a crazy, very such a blaze of fire that we were really lying down here, well, people couldn't do pigeons either, the battle was fought near this stop here half a year later, there were shell holes left on the road, and you can see this hole in the road sign. this is the result of the arrival of a tank shell. the russians aimed at the armored vehicles of the first tank shot . what about the tanks? well, the confidence is that they saw us. well, most of them carried fire on our bmp , which then at the end of it, when we had not sat down, i saw that the tower did not turn at all, and in the tower, well , the shells and shells, everything happened almost as planned , and we stopped them, that is, they began to bind fight they deployed their order of battle . our artillery began to work. well, of course, we all had to retreat back to chernihiv. after that, we began to

retreat as a group. my mechanic, after all, how did they decide to leave the bmp because i think it is unrealistic to even approach it, i am also so desperate. he climbed to the mp and i hear that the bmp is going, although we have already lost all hope that we lost the car to the undercut, no , here we are. that's how we drove down. well, we entered the zaz and got into an ambush there, sat down on the bmp, this undercut began to move. and here two flew over us rpg directly into the car, we were in the car, from the second shot i was already thrown by the beam and the arrow of the day began, then i was wounded in the arm and a splinter in the leg. in this battle, the commander of oleksandr serhii telushkov with the callsign of the fortress was killed. he was 24 years old and did not live to see his wedding two weeks in august , his fiancee will give birth to a son, and he will be named after his father serhiy, while the battle continues in khalyavin

, preparations are already underway to meet the russian troops. at the entrance to chernihiv from the side of the zaz microdistrict, this is where the bulk of the action is taking place - this is anti-terrorism roughly speaking, some came here in civilian cars, some came on foot. roughly speaking, each time 10-15 people came here, and somewhere closer to the 12th, maybe bohdana’s command before the battle at the turn like polubotok. there was a tank, i saw a shot from a russian tank, but then an explosion passed overhead. well and we can already see that there is smoke, but i managed to go around the corner after a while, literally one and a half hours later, our bmp was pulled in, there were already 200-300 ambulances working on the results of the battle

near halyavina, the operational command of the north reports on the destruction of 10 to 15 units of the enemy's equipment, they hit five tanks at once , unfortunately, several of our vehicles were hit, the enemy tried to surround one of the companies, i remember one of the companies, they tried to attack, but they left, they tried to the left flank until they did not get out of the encirclement, the brigade commander walked, made the right decision, took them several kilometers away, conducted a counterattack, and thanks to this, the people were alive, we lost twice three cars at that time, but the enemy also had to drive away, we destroyed them, they destroyed them in to the first battle, the first tank brigade, the military, it's not the first year we've been serving, well, it's the first time we've been in such real battles. it was terrible. well, i'll tell you all about it. adrenaline. give me yours after the end. when you leave, or you know, you've poured a little on these zhishorkas, it's kind of emotional in general well , it rises