we loaded them with sleds and equipped them with ribbons, equipped them with dynamic protection, refueled them and so on, we were already training, we were conducting shootings in training, we were already preparing arbitrarily just a few days before the invasion , major general viktor nikoliuk is going to check the readiness of the troops at the border chernihiv oblast and sumy oblast checked all the checkpoints at which i, uh, we understood that there could be an invasion from there for the senior colonel dmytro bryzhynsky remains in chernihiv, before that he was in charge by the 93rd kholodny yar brigade and it was under his command that in october 2021, in donbass, they used the bayraktar for the first time on february 22. he still does not fully believe in a full-scale invasion. for two days now, i have been returning home with a weapon, who was

hunting there for some kind of sabotage, some thieves, as we call it, can use the unpreparedness of the steering wheel. they left the car in one place, even turned around to make four circles to the gate on the right, and so on, we turned, we parked the car in another block, then we returned in the evening on february 23. that tomorrow a large-scale invasion is planned and literally an hour later the next text message that it is all a fake is an information entry, well, that is, here you can it is different to assess who sent the second text message at this time. the latest statements of us president biden

regarding the russian invasion are being discussed by ukrainian border guards in the dnipro village that borders belarus. this is interesting. let's go in the car. the guys are shielding the article from biden. well, there will be an attack on ukraine at four in the morning on the 24th. already the third day, and the third time they are attacking, that is, they laughed here, so it didn’t work out. dniprovsk will be the first to be hit by a sub-russian strike in chernihiv oblast at four o’clock 20 a tented camp of border guards they are firing from a drone from the side of belarus , i was wounded in the arm, i raise my hand from my arm and there is still blood, that is, the guys are going to break down, the guys got under the bed, i can’t get up, orient myself, viktor’s sprint bed 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 a breakthrough of the russians from this direction, the

border outposts of the state emergency service airfield in nizhyn and the training corps of the first tank brigade in chernihiv oblast to goncharivskyi, the sounds of explosions could be heard dozens of kilometers around at approximately 6:20 a.m., somewhere from that hour, the first arrival of this rocket hit our training building. i dispersed the unit of the first tank 58 separately, that is, with one brigade, they were dispersed, which gave the opportunity when the first tank was hit by a missile, all equipment, all ammunition will be saved, it was already about six o'clock in the morning, we had already flown to the advanced command post, and i thought to my wife to call back while i was in touch, well, it was 2006 in the morning, well, what can you say

when you don't know what will happen in half an hour, in an hour, units of the visk -center group are pushing into chernihiv oblast and sumy oblast in general. this about 30,000 soldiers and 10,000 pieces of equipment, somewhere around 5,000 tracks against were in the chernihiv direction and about 13,000 13-15 thousand people, that is, directly in the chernihiv area and in the south-northwestern part of the chernivtsi region whether there was a battle against the defense group or not, they entered between the checkpoints to prank and senkivka from through the territory of belarus, entered through garanyo and then moved in the direction of turnips to

mykhailykatsyubynskyi. they push unprecedented columns of equipment one after the other at the beginning. we thought, oh, there are 101 of the equipment, 200-300 of the equipment , then if it was less than 500, then we almost did not consider it, and the biggest minute, if any, was recorded was 34 km long, for understanding on the map, a column 34 km long would stretch from chernihiv and all the way to the turnips, you don’t see equipment anywhere, and for such a large amount of equipment to move simultaneously from how many directions for the first time in my life, so which russian units were going to capture chernihiv, these are military units 41- of the combined army, the

35th separate 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 hundred so during the occupation of the village of yagidne, they will commit war crimes and lock its residents in the school basement for almost a month . the 90th tank division , a part of its forces, was also known as the 41st army to strengthen and intensify the offensive on chernihiv. the forces were at the same level at the beginning the invasion in the chernihiv direction was covered by two brigades of the armed forces, the 1st tank brigade and the 58th motorized infantry brigade, for defense in the chernihiv direction, and the national guard regiment from shostka from the main units in chernihiv were also parts of the national guard already during the active hostilities reported to the city, the border guards were constantly gathering if you count all the volunteers and the teroboron here, what will happen later, the enemy still had

an advantage both in the number of fighters and especially in the number of equipment. they knew that there was only the first tankova 58, it seemed and two brigades on er three brigades and this well and half of the tank division here is a little, well, the advantage is definitely on their side , there were 21 tanks in all of chernigov in march, they were concentrated in each direction mainly the main street that leads to the center of the ratio, even i don't know how much it is there . her head pops out, the kiselyovka was cut down there once at 1:30, and so he was attacked from all

sides in the area of ​​chernivtsi. in order 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 on kyiv. chernihiv , in case of capture, was supposed to become a kind of logistical hub for the russian troops halfway to the capital. the enemy spoke of taking kyiv in three days. but chernihiv stood on their way, holding chernihiv . we held one of the main directions of the blockade of kyiv. from the north and east, there is such a concept that there was a shoulder of the delivery of military supplies, that is, the brovar group which came, as i said, from the kanatov side, to be sent through topkin, and they had a delivery shoulder somewhere up to 300 km, and you yourself understand when you have somewhere around 15-20 thousand

groups and there are three, five, six thousand units of equipment in order to bring them everything and to enter intensive hostilities, a lot of equipment is needed, and through chernihiv, this shoulder was much less than twice a-a, and having ensured the traffic on the highway, well, there are 95 m-01 in our opinion, and they were able to solve this problem, this problem more effectively on the first day the invasion of the russians is in a hurry to advance as far as possible very they advanced 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 we had to blow up this bridge in a hurry in order to somehow stop them and direct them in the direction we needed, we forced them to get off the paved roads, we forced them to go into the fields and get completely bogged down in the swamps, where we easily got them out , this was already an easy target, according to the priority plan, the armed forces were to hold the defense on the line of ripka

horodnya, due to the rapid advance of the russians , it had to be corrected on the first day. thank god that we we deviated a little from this defense plan, as much as it is a shame 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 a fair field with them, er, to fight, because we would have simply washed away them. 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. we had to let them get further from the border and draw them out on us, if the enemy is strong, we have to fight on our territory partially give up the territory, draw him out and in small groups already damage him here and there and there, bleeding the main combat units on february 24 to meet the russians already near

chernigov, the units of the first separate northern tank brigade are advancing, the rivkind highway near chernigov here in the evening of february 24, russian troops that before that traveled dozens of kilometers, fall into an ambush, at first we had missions to cover our artillery in order to stop the enemy on the approaches, that is, they worked our grads, and we ensured their stable operation there, covering one or another form, and we are just taking a break . this is a war, we were before that literally in a week, we held demonstration actions and at this border a mechanized company advanced there , behind the turnips, literally there was such an

area somewhere and a company advanced there, that is, in the terrain was studied and thanks to that the tank brigade held back the first attack one by one the first tank brigade destroys the two advanced columns of the russian bank one does - this is the most about it dig concrete look at the fable the mouth rolls on the tactical group drove reinforced by tanks at full steam we then pulled away the tanks put the tank in the gate in an ambush , the battalion commander, i still had time, then the communication was working, they set the task to let in, give the command to open the artillery, and we first started the artillery, and already the noise of the artillery, they worked simply from the front, their first column was destroyed almost 100%. they didn't even understand

, they might have thought that it was the ice artillery, their second column went the same way, when they took a drunkard, when they asked a fool, well, they were shocked and told us that it was ukrain tanks. they even lied to their own, so that they would not be afraid, and in practically the same place after a couple of hours, we destroyed the second column during the battle, the reserve under the leadership of lieutenant colonel artem linkov sets out to help the main forces, the officer’s command comes from the north and says that i met two columns with a counter-battle 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 got hot . in short, i had already reached there. there was a roadblock near the

turn on the highway. servicemen of the first tank brigade, so and so, we just went there, our boys there, we need to help the boys, if we want to get someone alive there or something. they paid for it. and we decided to go with three cars to the fishes. there, a little while ago, he sang the tanks and the dead are lying at the moment when he reached this settlement . i’m already talking in my life. i realized that i heard columns under bats. and i’m not even talking, you see the fire, the fire is so real, shoot at the bmps and the mountains, that’s not michel, that’s all vali and i say, let ’s go ahead, the stick did more after this tank, it’s hard to fly into it, everything was blown up, the turret near the kamaz was lying around, a russian soldier was killed, lying on his back i can see exactly what happened next, it started to smoke, one tiger

was set up, then the working guys from the infantry took it away, and there were 2 bombs. well, i think it’s like a familiar bmp-2 technique. our flag is on the antenna, but i have nothing. these circles are russian, because now they will definitely dump theirs here. so when we took all this, their things, i installed them along the chevron. it was all marine corps reconnaissance of the marine corps on the first day of the invasion near chernihiv opolon seems to be a reconnaissance platoon - of the 74th motorized rifle brigade of russia, what did the commanders tell you when they were sent to this place? scheme to fight, you are going from ukraine psychologist why are you going to fight?

they mostly do not participate in hostilities, and fierce resistance is provided only by battalions of ukrainian nazis, currently units of the russian armed forces the federation has completed the blockade of the city of chernihiv, while konashinkov reports on the blockade of chernihiv and says that the ukrainian army is not resisting. on february 25, the armed forces break up another column of russian vehicles. now on the outskirts of the city, the city police are publicly holding it. i understood that the column was actually lined up in three rows of armored vehicles . a message was received about this from the local resistance movement, a fire damage was inflicted there by the forces of the missile division, the entire column practically

burned down, armored personnel carriers, tanks, e-e artillery bm-21 was destroyed on the order, probably by 21 vehicles . 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 it is at this intersection that on the morning of february 25, the armed forces meet the russian troops, we were given an order, that is, her roughly speaking, to fight with them is back and the fight is to force them to deploy in the novaya pod and at this time, again, our artillery was supposed to work on the morning of the 25th, we can say that the civilian population called back, well, they were acquaintances and they said that there is one problem in the egyptian direction , the wing is moving in the direction of chernihiv. up to fifty units of russian equipment have taken up positions here, one on the right and the other

a little closer. one remained here to cover, well, actually, the tanks of the bmp detachment went directly to the psychiatric hospital , the plan was busy so as not to miss the breakthrough, so as not to bypass, roughly speaking, in our work there, we have there there is such a high elevation. there we lay down at 26 rpm. well, like a fly, as it will be called in our country. well, we lay down and gave the same weapon to the majority. then they again put our soldier himself, as they say, with different eggs on the post itself, so that he would already be watching. and how will the column go here? andriy is the very fighter who was entrusted with the checkpoint nostalgia for the checkpoint nostalgia yes joke the morning of the 25th was such a beautiful sunny morning i already understand what the village

i come from is a long distance ripnivskyi district already in occupation, someone came, the russian troops, the sky was worried about the family, the family remained an observer at this checkpoint. well, when i found out that the enemy column was already on its way, i made a couple of short lines and from the left side began to move here closer to my own, and after that , the senior superiors again informed me that i understood, they raised a bird in the air and after that they heard that the artillery was working and our tanks saw them sooner. it’s really true that the tankists were so fond of the lottery of our artillery during this period and the battles began . our bmp was still standing here alone, now it’s purely my mechanic, the driver and the gunner, no gunner, the same thing with the bmp

. i saw that they were running somewhere to shoot, somewhere it was added to five shots, because after that they started to leave there only a little because it started a crazy, very such a sleeper of fire that we were really when lying down here we were, well, the people couldn't change the pigeon either, the fight went on near this stop six months later there were shell holes left on the road, and here you see this hole in the road sign, this is the result of the arrival of a tank shell, the russians were aiming at the armored vehicles of the first tank shot. what about the tanks, and well, the confidence that they saw us were the enemies themselves from the infantry, no, well, there was no well, most of them fired at 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 visible rada of the projectile, everything happened almost as planned and we stopped them that is, they began to engage in battle, they deployed the order of battle, because

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, as they thought, only the bmp, because i think it is unrealistic to even approach to her, and they are also so desperate. he climbed all over the bmw, i hear that the bmp is going, although we have already lost all hope that we lost the car to a broken one. here we went to the bottom in this way. well, we drove back and got into an ambush right there. on the highway they began to move. and then two rpgs flew at us directly into the car. we were in the car. i was already hit by the beam from the second shot and the arrow of the day began. then i was not hit in the arm and got a splinter in the leg. 24 years old and he did not live to see his wedding for two weeks in august , his bride will give birth to a son, he will be named

sergei in honor of his father, while the battle is going on, he is preparing to meet the russian troops in khalyavin. at the entrance to chernihiv from the side of the zaz microdistrict, here the main mass is happening - this is anti-terrorist defense, roughly speaking, they came here, some in civilian cars, some on foot, roughly speaking, every time, and 10-15 people arrived here, and somewhere closer to the 12th, maybe bohdana's command before the battle at the turn, as from polubotok, the tank saw a shot russian tank, but it passed overhead, then it broke down. well , we can already see that there is smoke, but i managed to enter zaugov

after some time, literally one and a half hours. khalyavina operational command north reports on the destruction of 10 to 15 units of enemy vehicles, five enemy tanks were knocked out at once, unfortunately several of our vehicles were knocked out, the enemy tried to completely surround, i remember one of the companies tried to target, but they left the left flank they tried, they got out of the encirclement, the commander of the marching brigade made the right decision, led them out several kilometers, conducted a counterattack, and thanks to this, people were alive, we lost two or three cars at that time, but the enemy must also defeat us destroyed they destroyed in the first battle the first tank brigade, although we have been in the military for not the first year, well, this is really the first time we have encountered such battles. it was terribly strong. well, i will tell you all that. with the same

shrek, it is somehow mentally, well, it rises. well, it’s a cool feeling, not in battle, but in reality, as the traffic jams just go in herds, there are no such tactics. there is no such thing. on the morning of february 25, they were already. the outskirts of the city of chernihiv and already began to bypass the west a-a and in the same way they approached through the gradation, they went down , they approached there, the organ asked well, practically we can see our dump, it’s all around in the forest, it was already russian completely in the evening of the same day, viktor nikolyuk, who did not make it yet reach from chernihiv records a video message there will be a time when the next moment that our victory will be bright, it will be really worth it no matter what and together we will all say glory to ukraine, do you remember the story

of national guard soldier serhiy romanenko about dozens volunteers who went to stop the breakthrough of the russians in chernihiv, they went to the military commissariat literally in the first hours of the invasion, and here are the stories of 24 of them . the basement from the apartment to the basement i've had enough of this already, i'm talking anyway, i'm not talking about the military enlistment office because i've never served in the army and in principle, if i'm honest, i said why do we have such an army , who will attack us and but somehow what happened? when i started to understand that the war had started on the 24th, i basically went home and almost immediately said that i will definitely go to the army. i am standing in this queue and see that there is a queue once,

if there are four, then it is on the fourth floor and we are on the street. that is, it is some kind of bottomless queue. i had no doubt that there would be no place in the city, but more people came than we expected, there were not enough weapons for everyone, it was about 5-6 thousand people, there were young people, for various reasons they never served e- there were already pensioners. i came with my best man they received, wrote applications for joining terobona, stood in line to receive weapons, there was an air signal for an alarm, then there was a command that it was necessary to dig in, there was a probability of a breakthrough, they went to dig trenches, around two, well, when the trenches were already dug, it was somewhere between 11 and 4 days ago they were already digging, the weapons ran out of weapons, that is, i received

them only on the 28th, tanks are coming out somewhere nearby , planes are flying, that is, you know it, a run to the machine guns, who managed to get them, got them, and we went on a kamaz, and that’s not on the plane, right away to the basement and this is the whole day, you know the movement from the basement to the machine guns from the er harvest crops looking back dmytro ryzhynskyi remembers that before the influx of volunteers there were not enough fighters to defend chernigov, what kind of forces were there 30 men there for example 50 army service there police there 40 men there their units fodder there is a special company there in the guards, at that time it was a battalion. also, there was a company, well, that is, they operated with a minimum number of personnel. i understood that its personnel was not enough to conduct battles in the city. and when he came to me, for example, military commissariat, i say well, 1.5 for sure for a

second to get me one and a half thousand people, what kind of people where are they from? and this is volunteers who arrived at the military commissariat arrived for the defense of the city of chernihiv. they are preparing for street battles on the main streets of the city. roadblocks and barricades are being set up. the townspeople are making molotov cocktails. well, they started building barricades in all directions. there are more than five barricades in each direction. they also led development and saw that the city was preparing for defense. what did they feel? organized resistance, that is, i understand that the russian offensive on chernihiv is not going to happen just like that, the blown bridges and the resistance of the people from the settlements that were in the rear of the enemy are slowing down. this is how, for example, the occupying troops are met in bakhmach by

tanks driving in reverse and the city guards and they expected the total support of the local population for themselves , which they did not find here, that is, they were surprised, a bad joke is played with the russians and their rapid advance on the first day, the occupying troops get lost and do not know the roads, for example in the village of maksaks on the menshini on the first day of the invasion of desna, two russian tanks drowned, they were looking for a crossing here, which did not exist, they had plans drawn there 20-30 km from the territory where they definitely went astray, they had electronic maps there, they had diagrams there but after 30,000,000 kilometers from the state border, military talents, prepared in advance, types of improvisation ended, they got a little lost, they wandered a lot .

the big stage there is almost a year of training. and they studied the terrain at various training grounds, but surely when you go to tanky, it’s a little difficult to see what’s going on around them, all the signs with the locations of the settlements were removed. but it really helped because we are even now driving it happens that we don't know where we are, at least the locals. on february 24, the airfield in chernihiv was seen by national guard soldiers who went there to defend a young conscript who had just arrived and were very scared. parents made positions stretched on the cover of the armored personnel carrier , the blocks were pulled to the airfield well, it depends on the airfield so that there is no possibility