[000:00:00;00] and therefore, in principle, we were already ready. we rested. we knew that this was possible in the last minutes, seconds, and hours of our sleep, and so, after the first rockets, we simply dissolved in the city , took our positions and began to work to defend the city, because the main problem was that we access to the critical infrastructure of the city was not granted until the very beginning of the invasion, there was not even access to engineering works, because most of the territory of the fields there belonged to farmers, and the city administration for some reason already held held this permission to carry out engineering works

therefore, with the first beginning of the cancellation of the first announcement, we began simply titanic efforts so that mariupol had at least some chance, now quite often zelenskyi's opponents reproach him with the fact that the russian army entered the crimean peninsula, which is annexed through chongar, almost unhindered, and accordingly, this allowed them quite quickly go to kherson and go to mariupol, why do you think this happened or was this some kind of mistake or do you know why this situation actually developed with chingar well, i will tell you yes, somewhere, somewhere it is not known at the moment the full i.e. the completeness of the information. why did this happen? i believe that first of all a qualitative analysis of previous actions and a qualitative investigation should be carried out.

this task was set, it means we must. we must change this system personally for us, for the mariupol garrison . a week or two or it won't be there at all, and the main attack will be restrained from the east and the north, in principle, based on that. we were preparing for a full ring from the very beginning , but still, we did not settle for a different result, and that's why when we received a blow in the back when we received a full-time unit that advanced from the crimea , very heavy and intense fighting began. our days when mariupol met the invaders, well, it is clear that the inhabitants of mariupol, the inhabitants of the city, the

majority of them remained in the city, did you understand that there will be an attack by the russians, they expected it from the east or from the northeast, but in fact from the first days mariupol falls into the ring and it is clear that in this situation you changed tactics and you had to defend mariupol and pull away those parts that theoretically could practically to go to the same kyiv let's say yes or well to other parts of the regions of ukraine what happened in mariupol those first days what are your memories well how did i meet mariupol mariupol met the thief happy ukrainian arms day how did people meet people went to mobilize a lot of people came to tireo

came to us to the units of the national guard, they asked them to issue them like this, they issued a ship for the ball and tried to teach something there in a day and a half . to expect such a war, no one was preparing europe had never known such a war with such modern weapons and such intensity as during the second world war, but mariupol began to unite, some people on the go worked on the go gave away their cars it helps, all units of the national police, the ministry of emergency situations, the national guard all tried to work as a single organism . so it was swan pike and cancer, but from the headquarters of the defense of mariupol, an idea was created to somehow give order to this chaos, and we made every effort to unite all disparate units somehow reconcile asking the proper

distance, this task, well, it was almost unrealistic according to all let's say yes evaluation matrices, we had to hold out for three weeks , a month at the most, first of all, we did not have the proper amount of heavy weapons and stocks for guns, stocks for industries, that is, artillery ammunition, we did not have anyone reliable support for the ppu, so in principle we thought that we would last three weeks , months, but we made the maximum effort, every person, almost every person in their positions made 500%, 1%. stopping the enemy, those first days yes, it was hell, you know many people now when they hear the air alarm siren, well, in principle, they don't react

at all, but not at all, and for me , the air alarm siren will forever remind me of the city of mariupol because when i was there in the first days, it was in the first days, we still had sirens working, i heard this siren and immediately after it a hailstone fell that covered residential buildings and killed our citizens right around them. and these were terrible shots, terrible events, so i treat this siren very seriously, very painfully, and we have to stop it the enemy is better on their territories, but somehow it turned out. we are already fighting on our territories, but this is full responsibility and irresponsibility if someone expects that the enemy will come to him and then it will be too late, but the people of mariupol , most of them tried to unite

around us around the core of the defense of mariupol and to make some contribution, the police tried to master this chaos, everyone worked, everyone worked to the maximum, but it was quite difficult. i remember that is, i personally worked with the national police. i remember these boys and girls who came from of the first calls, who helped to evacuate, provided first aid to wounded civilians. i remember their eyes and their trembling . i tried to cheer them up. people, which units fought near chernihiv near kyiv, that is, the first three days we simply received aviators from above, we received constant shelling or growing artillery, there were no opponents yet, and these first three days were the most difficult. we were afraid in mariupol that kyiv was falling, god forbid some kind of peace treaty will be signed and we

will simply be handed over, but we didn't have time , you know, to give in to these experiences , to give in to this fear, we had to do our job as quickly as possible, for almost three months you held the defense of mariupol, you together with our comrades defended this city. then we were in the azovstal plant surrounded from all sides and then the whole world was talking about you and we were all worried about you for those who were in azovstal, the military leadership of the state ordered you to leave the mariupol plant from the plant azovstal and leave the plant in order to save your life, you carried out this order, how was this decision perceived by those who remained under azovstal, you can

remember , that is, your feelings in may 2022. did not sound in a certain sense, it was very difficult for us because we had many of our wounded who at that time there was simply nothing to treat, and on the other hand, the front was already reduced, we had more or less a sufficient number to make shifts and war on positions and the enemy the main thing is that there is no such maneuver, but for two months before that , the boys and girls of the azov marine corps , the national guard, the national police, the state border service and other units fought without sleep, fought for every house, for

every piece of land, won back, destroying dozens hundreds of pieces of equipment destroying the occupiers ago and we all almost all realized that we will probably not return home. we must never hold our direction as if for help longer to allow ukraine to defend its independence so that it does not fall into kyiv so that zaporizhzhia does not fall so that it does not fall into bakhmut so when already came , such an order came, first of all, the leadership tried to simply make a green corridor for our wounded and civilians, but the enemy set demands either all or none, so with a large field with a large, that is, with a full

or by an incomplete understanding of what awaits us, that we may be executed because we did not expect anything good. we still carried out this order, but we understood that the return medal is our comrades who are already alive without help , i apologize, are rotting in our bunkers who received heavy medium injuries to them no one can help anymore, one of the azov residents seems to be a docent in an interview with gordon, who told about the fact that when you were brought to the deer park, they ordered the azov residents to get out and told you to take two steps forward, that is how you were identified there, that is, who is an azov resident and who is not you know, there were many parties, that is, it was three days, that is, the surrender. it took place for three days, and at various certain stages there were various filtering actions. personally, in my wave

, documents were checked, that is, i was identified by the entry on my identity card. what happened after you were captured by the russians, where were you personally in a reindeer herd in donetsk or moscow? i understand that three groups were divided after the russians carried out this filtering, and at the beginning i was in a deer herd like everyone else, you know that yes, before the capture, before the capture, no one prepared for the capture on the almost methodical ones in ukraine, there are definitely not even units of other countries , we were waiting for some of their developments, of course i knew the geneva convention, i studied it at the university, it was one of my main directions, in principle, i understood that it was not necessary

to give let's say so to say nothing and that is to become uninteresting therefore i understood that i should not be interesting to the enemy and not provide him with any information so as not to implicate my brothers and so i did everything dependent on me not to set up their people to pull this propaganda machine away from them. so what i told you. at first, they tried in every way to catch on some word to hang their crimes on our people, they also do wormwood, then when i was at the donetsk prosecutor's office, they prepared a special article for us to completely participate in the tourist organization, nitrogen , although they explained that we are a structured unit of the national guard of ukraine, we are a sovereign state, a figure of legal law, and they are not a recognized state, they are

a terrorist’s catch, of course they thought in a different way, for their propaganda, they tried to transfer us from the ranks of prisoners of war to the category of convicts, we blame that is why the majority of azov residents will send us as such dangerous thieves to the donetsk sizo, where of course they will agree with us here. before august 24, 2022 , information appeared in the russian propaganda media that a trial was being prepared in mariupol for the captured azov people, and there were rumors that they wanted to hold a public execution, however, because

you were tried, as you say, to establish the status of fascists or nazis in ukraine, and you were considered the worst enemies and are considered the worst enemies of the russian federation, however , it is believed that they were judged, what prevented two events, this is the first murder in russia, daria doginoy is the daughter of the famous russian ideologue dugin , who called for the show execution of the azov people in mariupol, and secondly, this is your mother, a well-known journalist and writer in the 90s, who quite clearly gave her interviews for western and russian-speaking audiences that putin actually knows very well what azov is, it is not fascists, but has so far been ahead of the reforms of the army and that the regiment was formed according to nato standards, what or who , according to you, prevented the occupiers from arranging this process of trial and execution precisely on the independence day of ukraine, because we remember that

russian propagandists showed these cages that began to be assembled in mariupol and everyone was waiting for this bloody well, the russians can arrange this bloody denouement. i don't know that is the completeness of the picture. to organizations such as the azov steel family to our patronage service who participated to all people who participated politicians to athletes to the military who participated to obstruct this court personally so i saw the letters that my mother professionally formed and submitted to international organizations of the united nations to the president of the united states america 's jova bydeno yes, it was really professional forests, so i am sincerely grateful to all the people who not only prayed for us, but also did some

specific things to prevent this bloody eye machine to make such a propaganda show , but to give up means to finish the matter, that is. decided to exchange viktor medvedchuk for his best man, you already know here as we all say here on the big land, we already found out after the exchange what happened there was such a process, not only medvedchuk was there well, that is, i will not reveal a big operation, there was a big exchange, that is thank you to everyone who worked and i say and is working in this direction. thanks to them, someone we have the opportunity, i have the opportunity to sit in front of you here now and not be executed or sit behind the walls of the pre-trial detention center, where now

, i repeat once again, are my brothers. azov residents are still in captivity and where they are, what is their fate, that is, the number of people who have not yet returned to ukraine, you know more than someone , about seven cities of azov residents and more than one and a half thousand defenders together are in captivity, that is, different units they are here and in the russian federation not temporarily in the occupied territories and their fate is difficult, that's all i can tell you, so everyone who is here in their places should work to get them out of there so that their actions, which they were guided by when they were in the service, were not useless. we must forget about them and must make every effort to return

them to everyone's home. i will ask you how you feel about the current president of ukraine. although i understand that you are a military serviceman , you are the supreme commander of the armed forces of ukraine. a major of the national guard of ukraine, after all, has your attitude towards the president of ukraine changed over the past four years, and how do you now evaluate him, the work and the year of the great war in russia against ukraine, well, you know, i will probably answer quite dryly at first i didn't vote for him, yes, it's true, now he is my commander-in-chief and as a commander-in-chief i respect him, are you now planning to return to the army, because i know that you are undergoing rehabilitation and are going through a certain period

of adaptation after being captured by the russians? what are your plans? what are your plans? will you return to azov or will you fight in other units, that is, what are your plans for the near future ? well, i am an officer, as you say. it is still unknown in what format until the end. i will not reveal it to you now live, but i will do everything that depends on me so that the experience and growth of the konovalts pre-vice military school was implemented, it strengthened our army, it strengthened our subordinates, that is, and we continued to win back our country in order to return our boys to win back our independence in the end, that's why everyone has to do the same, that's why i 'm going to finish it in the near future, yes, it's usually

impossible to completely restore everything, but thanks to the patronage service of azov, thanks to our doctors, thanks also to the rehabilitation center i already feel much better. the book has arrived. that's why i have to go back. i have to fight on. i already mentioned during the program that, well, in fact, the third part of your life is nine years. well, no. a third a little more less more true eh you spent in the war in the russian-ukrainian war it is clear that in 2014 hardly anyone thought that this war would last nine years and it is not yet known how long it will last but i think that the majority of our and viewers and tv viewers ask the same question when they see the military and people who know what they are doing when the russian-ukrainian war will end and in which scenarios are possible the end of this war and in what

way should it end because usually they say a lot when they mention the war that all wars end in peace with a peace treaty. well, in this way they incline ukraine to some kind of peace agreements that ended the current war. what do you think? when and how should the russian-ukrainian war end ? always answered and still hold all opinions when every citizen of ukraine will start making efforts precisely to end this war precisely for our victory, everyone in his place here does not necessarily have to fight everyone must understand that this is a challenge, it must be patience. usually we are very quickly disappointed, but this time we have to be patient to put a big point on this issue, so only in our united efforts, only

when everyone contributes, someone working honestly, understanding that it will be difficult for everyone it's hard now for a guy in positions, it's hard for guys in captivity, it's also hard for those who work in headquarters without sleep, it's hard for those who work in factories and even confident businessmen, now it's very difficult for ordinary people and it should be understood easily victory will not be easy. unfortunately, we will not be able to do it, but as i also said so long ago, we will never end this war if we do not win it, if only we defeat russia, if only we show all our strength to the end from your territory only then will we be able to put an end to this issue, because if russia does not rise up with an international tribunal, if we do not use the strength of our weapons, the strength of our spirit does not win back our lands, then

the war will continue forever, mr. kirill, and well, obviously, the current war do you agree with this that the current war is the final competition of ukrainians to win back their freedom and in the competition with the russian federation that the current war should finally put an end to our several hundred year long history of struggle for our independence and our freedom and precisely in these days and in these years, this final battle is taking place, in which we have to put the last point, you know. when i return from captivity, i was struck to the core by the fact that now this spirit

of ukraine has appeared, that ukrainians have united, that they have appeared this is the ukrainian nation, and i am sincerely grateful to everyone for this, to every ukrainian , we have to kindle this spirit further on these foundations and build our public society, our strong , independent, cathedral ukraine and that is why, as taras hryhorovych shevchenko said, fight, fight , because victory is behind us, we will all cope with with this task, we will put an end to our conversation on this optimistic note. thank you , mr. major, for your participation. of the second infantry battalion, a man who has been in the russian-ukrainian war for nine years and a man who defended mariupol, and this is the man who was in azovstal and was then captured by the russians, in

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