blue brigades, whose results are the greatest today. unfortunately, we have several hits. our power engineers and repair crews are doing everything during the day. so that ukrainians feel the consequences of the terrorist attack as little as possible, and i thank everyone who is working to restore the energy supply. as of this evening, the power outage is especially difficult in most regions of ukraine. kyiv region and in the capital, lviv region, odesa , kherson region and vinnytsia region and transcarpathia, but this cannot be compared with what could have happened if it were not for our heroic anti-aircraft fighters and anti-aircraft defense with each such missile attack, russia only drives itself deeper into the impasse, the missile is becoming less and less, on the other hand, the status of the biggest terrorist in the world will have consequences for russia and its citizens for a long time, and each missile

only confirms that all this must end with a tribunal. that is how it will be and despite all strikes every day the state is working, the office of the cabinet of ministers, everyone is working, in particular i had two big meetings today, economic, defense, we are working so that our defenders have more opportunities, more weapons, more drones, the situation on the front line during the day without significant changes, the most sharp bakhmut soledar, the entire line in donetsk region, the enemy did not give up the crazy idea to seize donetsk region, now they are setting themselves a task for the new year, i thank all our guys who have been proving to the occupiers for the past month that it is we who will set and achieve goals on our land. thank you to all who protect ukrainian donbas to all those who protect our

kharkiv region to all those who hold our south and those who protect our border and by the way, thank you to those border guards who, together with all the defense forces, beat the enemy at the front. thank you to the soldiers of belgorod-dniester and mukachevo of the border troops. dear ukrainians , there are two days left this year, maybe the enemy . maybe i will try once again to make sure that we celebrate the new year in the dark. maybe the occupiers are planning to make us suffer with another blow to our cities, but if they don't plan there, we know one thing about ourselves, we stand by our duty. we will definitely drive them out without a doubt and they will not suffer the maximum punishment for this terrible war. i thank everyone who protects our state. thank you to everyone who fights for our independence. glory to ukraine, this is my country,

my fields, my friends, brothers, parents, children, neighbors. students doctors teachers warriors and regardless of age global beliefs we all will win glory to ukraine we continue our telethon yevgenia harkov tetiana zhurkova work for you and then we talk about the struggle on the cultural front for this we add the singer zlata ognevich to our broadcast good night zlata and already new year's mood already at night, yes, but actually, that's how i managed to

force myself to put up a christmas tree so that he would appear at least a little, this year's mood is not at all. well, how can i say of course, he is no more than he is, but we will not surrender to the enemy, we will not submit, as our president said, mountain aha, nothing will work. a year for stars, for artists, it's well, for many, at least there, yes, it's hmm, corporate events, double earnings, and so on and so on and so on and what's going on now? someone will not celebrate the new year to perform or not to perform, here's what

's happening in show business, here's during the full-scale war, here's before new year 's, well, look, i don't have any information about the performances, i'll be celebrating the new year in the family circle outside kyiv, my dad , her sister, her husband will be there, and it will be very such a touching and cozy holiday regarding earnings, of course, earnings have fallen, but what is the action in youtube on various streaming platforms, and that's why it is these cash receipts that they save, plus , of course, i have my own blogger work on instagram and where will it also be for luga's post, a blogger now i want a big

wish i believe that now the main goal is to win, and that's why these funds that i have are ... well, no, we can't hear your sentences clearly, it says unstable connection, that's what my colleagues are telling me, yes, the connection was lost, unfortunately, zlata ognevich, the singer was on the phone with us, we tried to talk about the war on the front of show business well, maybe another time, gold we casually invite you to the broadcast to discuss this, uh, there was a short pause, after which the

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crutches . olena renovska once, when we heard on the radio station the attention of the air, the earth trembled, even if we possessed it, it did not hit, even if the bomb fell somewhere there 200-300 300 500 m from the lviv bunker, a meter still, the earth trembled slava i welcome you to the first channel of public broadcasting. thank you very much for coming to see us . how are you? you came to us on crutches and you have such a complex structure. now on your leg, what is it ? i'm ilizarova, i have a shrapnel wound on my left hip and now i'm coming for treatment, rehabilitation, recovery. well, as i

said before the injury, i was better. and you're fine. we'll talk about your injury. as i understand it, you received it during the stormy events in mariupol, but that's all. same before that, there are several points that i want to draw the attention of our viewers to, you are 23 years old 23 23 years old, you are already heroes of ukraine, you were still at 22, this is of course very powerful and it is an honor for us to record an interview with you today i want to clarify such a point actually eh the war began for you much earlier than february 24. you joined the azov regiment at the age of 18 in 2017. how did you make this decision for yourself? you dreamed of being a soldier in the country. -e were in the east in different units there are the armed forces of the national guard there are some other units and i generally

wanted to be a soldier and decided that it was time to go to azov, time to go to the service and made a decision to join the military service. you were awarded this title of heroes of ukraine in the spring when you were in mariupol and there was an extremely difficult situation in mariupol, how did you even find out about the presidential decree about your awarding this award, i was wounded and was in a bunker where there was a makeshift hospital and my wife then still a girl wrote to me that uh, i was awarded a screenshot from the president's website where i was awarded the hero of ukraine. at first i thought that it was worth something because, well, it is the highest award

, a state award, and well, it was hard for me to imagine that once uh you deserved it, and later my command said that this is how you were awarded , let's go on. then you took part in various battles , not only in mariupol, but at the time of the full-scale invasion, you were in mariupol. there was already some kind of preparation for what might be an invasion or a breakthrough in the east of azov. azov began preparing for the invasion of mariupol in advance, and maps began to be developed there, plans began to be prepared for the city, but there were major conflicts with the city authorities and this process was very slowed down the city authorities did not believe that the next mariupol could be the representatives of azov, er, as far as i know, the higher command staff was allowed to

rest only on february 23, or on february 23 they only let me in and i met a full-scale battle i met the invasion at a later stage. my unit was carrying out anti-sabotage and amphibious defense tasks on the coast of mariupol , the sea of ​​azov, and i got to mariupol itself at the end of february, around the 28th. well, around the 28th, i was the company commander at that time . they gave the district defense and gave an order to prepare cities to prepare a certain sector for urban battles, work began, the first battles just happened at the end of february, well, in my area at the end of february, the beginning of september

, we had very little time to prepare, almost well, you can say it was almost not. we were preparing the city already in the process of fighting. how did you get your wound under what circumstances? at that time, it was already mid-april. at that time, i was acting as a battalion commander because my battalion commander was older and he was evacuated the situation on the part of the front that was entrusted to me was very difficult, and in connection with the capture of the marines at ilyich , the entire enemy strike group that was there descended on my area and we were already surrounded, cut off from the nitrogen of steel and on april 14, we made a decision

to break through to zostal and during the breakthrough i was already injured when leaving the last, you got to azovstal already with a wound and if i am not mistaken you had the opportunity to evacuate behind zrostali because at that time ukrainian helicopters were still flying those the most famous ones who managed for a long time to maintain the name of the steel of life and combat capability of the ukrainian military, but you refused, why is there a very interesting story, eh, i got to zastavlia already wounded, i saw behind the steel there were maybe 150-200 meters left there was simply the kalmius river between us and we could n’t force it when i was wounded, and denis prokopenko was happy to come up to me right after the operation and said that i would be evacuated by helicopter. i said that i

would recover for a few days now and, uh, i would be able to sit on radiation there at least it's not difficult, but it 's all the more so because of the command, more often than not, there's no need for more. we argued for a long time about whether he gets it or not, and i said no, i don't want to, and one day people came up to me. i'm in such a state, they say, move on to other platforms i climbed over and asked where he told me that they would take us to another bunker to unload, er, lord , and it was night. helicopter they knew everything, they just

didn't know about this situation that i didn't want to evacuate, it turned out that we were really leaving for evacuation by helicopters, but they never arrived because of the shelling of the high density of the enemy's air defense, you were left behind with a wound with your comrades from representatives of other units with civilians, what you observed there already in the bunkers, the eyes of the bombardment with bombs from russian planes to what extent. for you, it was a shock. it was this scale that you felt , heard, and maybe saw there. some district or city, well, it can be compared to the night bombing of london there in the second world war, but azovstal is a small london , uh, the bunker in which i was, it was a week

to break through aerial bombs, there were rubbles, uh, one once it caught fire hmm, the operating room was destroyed where the operations were performed and the doctors were forced to perform the operations just in the corridor between the beds of the wounded patients there, the stabilization of the wounded well, i was shocked and i knew that there was a big political conversation about the rest about mariupol evacuation there to stop the bombardment, but they did not work at all, well, every time we heard on the radio station the attention of the air, the ground was blood clot even if the bunker did not hit, even if the bomb fell somewhere there 200-300 or 500 m from the bunker kilometer salon, anyway, the earth was shaking

, the bunker is what depth are we talking about, hmm , there were different hospitals, well, it was just a basement. well, they were deeper, but the guys from that bunker said that they could already see the light, even though the bunker was there at three o'clock . floors down in this story, who were surrounded by the rest, there is a certain, well, you can say that such a phenomenality of it is that not only ukraine, but also a certain part of the world could observe what is happening to you, what you are actually experiencing in real-time mode thanks to the fact that there was communication thanks to the fact that commander azovu radis and your other comrades contacted each other periodically, of course, no one knows what exactly you had to go through there. but did you know and did you somehow feel the fact that

you are being watched now. all of ukraine, some part of the world, and in fact a very large part of the people were rooting for your fate. well, what's the best under these terrible conditions. i understood all the news that now ukraine is watching mariupol for the steel behind the defense of this city. we heard there about the negotiations with sartagan about a visit to the pope , but personally for us, well, we were there, carrying out tasks and orders and holding the city, well, our task was the same, and so was my consulate were as focused as possible on this under these terrible, terrible circumstances. how did you manage to maintain morale? for example, you were in a hospital where there were people who could not be helped simply because there was nothing. how did you hold on, well, it's quite difficult

because the battles in the environment are, first of all, difficult battles, not because of the great tension, because of the great exhaustion, and the unit was very exhausted , e.e. , morally, physically, e. from me some kind of positive news to somehow come to my senses in another way to tell , but more often than not i had nothing to say to them, what saved us was that azov is a unit that is hardened by the family, hardened by the team and we could rely on each other one, all our training is somewhere, our whole way of life is at the bases during the performance of official combat missions there until mariupol. well, we lived as one family, hung out together as

families there, rested, worked together, and there was trust in each other, and this is probably the only thing saved us, in your opinion, why did the russians manage to surround mariupol so quickly? it is difficult for me to say that this is already such a strategic level . in my opinion, why? in the south, in the south, it’s not just us here from the south, it’s also from the side of volnovakha , there was an environment, the country would generally be ready for such a full-scale war, eh, now, eh, several hundred of your compatriots from azov , in total, probably somewhere around two thousands of soldiers are still in captivity in russia and i know that you are limited in what you can

say about it. i really hope that they will all be released and then there will really be an opportunity for history to record these testimonies of what is happening in captivity in the meantime i want i want to ask you about the day when you learned or already understood that you were returned home. did you know that there would be an exchange? we didn't know . in the evening, the military personnel came in. the ref said that they checked several surnames. i was among them the next morning. they put us in kamaz, they tied our eyes and hands and took us somewhere, i don't know in donetsk, at that moment i didn't know where we were being taken there, they said for an exchange, someone said that they were taking us to other uh, there's a hospital, a higher prison, a colony in

russia there some said there on the carpet on stones mines well, we don't understand and didn't know, that's how i understood that we were first taken to a reindeer herder, there they loaded even more people into a kamaz , and then they took us to russia. understood that it was an exchange, well, i believed it and understood who the percentage was that when someone already entered the bus and said good evening, guys, ukrainian in ukrainian, then i understood everything, i was at home, i was before that, an exchange, not an exchange, an exchange for an exchange, you don’t know the ukrainian authorized representative and from of human rights dmytro lubinets recently talked about what happens to ukrainian prisoners, that the russians take them allegedly for an exchange and who in fact do not exist, then

return them to their place of detention and say that ukraine has abandoned you, is this really practiced in such a situation they were at the beginning, not at the end of may or at the beginning of june, i don't remember exactly, it was a combat situation when he threatened a lot of people on the bus, he said to exchange, the buses reached the barrier and came back and said that the ukrainian side refused to e-e exchange during my exchange there was a situation when one guy was easy to be himself and well said that he was going with us later dropped him off and you don’t know what happened to him we mentioned what we got from you in donetsk and i don’t know if have you seen it, have you not seen it in the past six months, and since the garrison left mariupol and part of it was captured, they constantly

return to the question of what the international committee of the red cross is doing, or where you were, where you were held. have you seen representatives of the international committee red at the very beginning of khresta, we saw them once and they asked us if we had any questions, we asked a question about whether everyone was evacuated, everyone was evacuated, those who were left behind when there will be exchanges, someone had a few more questions and answered all the questions they answered that this is secret information and we are not confidential information that i can share. and everything , uh, they said that he will still come there, and he should lead monitors. we have never seen them like this. how did the azov regiment change this story with such a large number of prisoners with this exit from azovstali, according to your observations, you became stronger or vice versa, stronger of course well, more hardening

. they had to be held and the situation with the prisoner. it only made azov more alive and motivated to destroy its enemy. but your commander denys prokopenko, although fortunately and released from captivity, is already abroad . as i understand it, nothing has changed here. how do you do you manage without him, now, in full-time positions , the establishment of temporary executive duties, which, well, these are experienced people who have experience, then you need to say practical

skills in managing the unit. and they are coping with it. well, as i see it, he somehow got in touch with his comrades in your unit in general after he was released. well, i know that there was a meeting with the family of mm. i don't know more. i want to talk a little about your there are plans there is so much light in this story of yours that you realized what you planned after you returned from captivity, confessed to your girlfriend uh-uh-uh, and already got married, as far as i know, tell me what your plans are, obviously, to recover, but do you plan

to return in formation, of course. and what is the forecast? by the way, with such a composition, no one can give a clear forecast now, but in general, everyone is hoping for the best. well, everyone says that everything will be fine, there may be some breakdowns, but in general, most likely, it will be good only about the formation and set to a new one operational battalion, how do you explain it? azov is getting bigger. azov is constantly expanding. there is no such thing. well, i don't know of any military unit in ukraine that is 100% staffed. and azov always recruits military personnel for various positions in terms of personnel. and now a decision was made to create a third battalion