[000:00:00;00] operations and in principle we understood we understood what would now begin well and therefore in principle we were already ready we rested we knew that this was possible the last minutes seconds of our sleep and so after the first rockets we simply dissolved in the city, took our positions and started working the city to the defense because the main thing - the problem was that we were not given access to the critical infrastructure of the city until the very beginning of the invasion, we did not even have access to engineering works, because most of the territory of the fields there belonged to farmers, and the city for some reason, the administration has already kept holding this permission to carry out engineering works, therefore, with the first start of the invasion

of the first announcement, we began simply titanic efforts to lure mariupol with any more chances, now quite often zelensky's opponents reproach him with the fact that the russian army entered the crimean peninsula almost without obstacles which is annexed through chongar, and accordingly, this allowed them to quickly enter kherson and approach mariupol, why do you think this happened or was this some kind of mistake or do you know why such a situation actually developed with chingar? well, i will tell you. yes, somewhere, somewhere, i don’t know at the moment the full, that is , the completeness of the information. why did this happen? i believe that first of all, a qualitative measure of the previous actions and a qualitative investigation should be carried out, where if it is established that this is sabotage deliberate sabotage, certain responsible persons

should be punished if it is established that this is sabotage of the system on which this task was assigned means we must change this system personally for us for the mariupol garrison it was a heavy blow in the back because well, somehow, someone conducted all the military games, we hoped that there would be an attack from the west in a week or two, or there would be no attack at all, and the main attack would be restrained from the east and the north, in principle, based on that, that is, we were preparing for a full circle from the very beginning, but everything and yet we did not settle for a different result, and that is why when we received a blow in the back, when we received a full-time unit advancing from the crimea , very heavy and intense fighting began. these

days, when mariupol met the invaders, well it is clear that the residents of mariupol, the residents of the city, the majority of them remained in the city, did you understand that there would be an attack by the russians , they were expecting 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 in this situation, you changed your tactics and you had to defend mariupol, pull away from you those parts that theoretically could practically go to kyiv. mariupol mariupol met the enemies with the fire of ukrainian weapons, people went to mobilize, a lot of people came to tereo, they came to us

. they were asked to form them to the national guard unit , so from the ship to the ball, they were formed and tried to teach something there in a day and a half . suicide, but people went to it , perhaps not understanding the fullness of the war, because no one expected such a war, no one prepared for it. europe had never known such a war, with such modern weapons and such intensity like during the second world war, but mariupol began to unite, people on the go, on the go, worked, gave their cars , helped, all units of the national police, the ministry of emergencies, the national guard , all tried to work as a single organism . so it was swan pike and cancer, but from the mariupol defense headquarters was created to somehow give order to this chaos, and we made every effort to unite all

the disparate units, to somehow reconcile and give the proper distance, this task was almost unreal according to all let's say so matrices evaluation, 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 branches, that is , artillery ammunition, we did not have anyone reliable support of the pp, so in principle , we thought that we would hold out for three weeks , a month but each person made the maximum effort, almost each person in their positions made 500%, 1%. stopping the enemy in the first days yes, it was hell, you know

many people now when they hear an air alarm siren well, in principle, they do not react at all not at all, but for me, the air alarm siren will forever remind me of the city of mariupol. because when i was there in the first days , in the very first days, the sirens were still working at our place, i heard this siren, and immediately after it, a cassette of hail fell , covering the residential buildings, which killed our citizens right around and these were terrible shots, terrible events, so i treat this siren very seriously, very painful, and we should stop the enemy better on their territories, but somehow it turned out. we are already fighting on our territories, but this is full responsibility without responsibility if

someone is waiting for the enemy to come right to him, 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 make some contribution, the police tried to master this chaos, everyone worked, everyone worked to the maximum but it was quite difficult , i remember yatayu that is, i personally worked with the national police. i remember these boys and girls who arrived from the first calls, who helped to evacuate and provided first aid to wounded civilians. i remember their eyes and their trembling . i tried to cheer them up . i informed them, already drunk, of the combat successes that had already been achieved at that time. there were no enemies yet, and these first three days were the most difficult. we were afraid in

mariupol that kyiv would fall. god forbid , some kind of peace treaty would be signed and we would simply be handed over, but we didn't have time, you know, to give in to these feelings, to give in because of this fear, we had to do our work as quickly as possible. for almost three months, you held the defense of mariupol, you together with your comrades defended this city. those who were at azovstal, the military leadership of the state ordered you to leave the mariupol plant for the azovstal plant and leave the plant in order to save your life. you complied with this order

. how was this decision perceived by those who remained under azovstal? you can remember that is, you know your feelings in may 2022, if that’s the case. to remember everything quickly and fleetingly on the left, if it didn’t sound strange, 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 had already been reduced, we had more or less sufficient numbers to introduce duty and war on positions and the enemy, most importantly, no longer had that maneuver, but two months before that, two months , the boys and girls of the azov marine corps

, the national guard, the national police of the state of the border guard and other units fought without sleep, fought for every house , for every scrap of land, won back destroying tens of hundreds of pieces of equipment, destroying the occupiers, and we all almost all realized that we would probably not return home . its independence so that it does not fall to kyiv so that zaporizhzhia does not fall so that it does not fall to bakhmut therefore when such an order came, first of all the leadership tried to simply make a green corridor for

of our wounded and civilians, but the enemy made demands either all or none so with a large field with a large, that is, with a complete or 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 brothers who are already alive without help, sorry, they are rotting in our bunkers, who received heavy medium injuries, no one can help them anymore, one of the azov residents seems to be an associate professor in an interview with gordon told about what when they brought you to the deer park, then they ordered the azovians to get out and told them to take two steps forward, they identified you there, that is, who is an azov who you don’t know, there were many parties there, that is, it was three days, that is, the surrender. it took place

for three days, and at different certain stages there were different filtering actions were personally checked in my wave, documents were checked, that is, i was identified by the entry on my identity card a-a. and what happened after you were captured by the russians, where were you personally in a deer park in donetsk or moscow? i understand that three groups were divided after the russians carried out this filtering, yes, at the beginning i was like everyone, you know, that is, before capture, before capture, no one prepared for capture, probably the most methodical in ukraine, there are definitely not even units of other countries, we so some of their developments were waiting, of course i knew the geneva convention, i studied it at the university, it was one of my main

areas, in principle, i understood that it is not necessary to give say something like that, say nothing and everything and become uninteresting, therefore i understood that i should not be interesting to the enemy and not give him any information in order not to implicate my brothers. and i did everything in my power not to implicate my people in order to pull the entire propaganda machine away from them. also, i told you . at first, they tried in every way to catch on some word in order to hang their crimes on our people. they also do wormwood later. when i ended up at the donetsk prosecutor's office, they prepared for us a special article for azov residents to participate in a tourist organization, nitrogen , although they explain 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, in fact, terrorism. well, of course, they thought otherwise, that is why they tried for their propaganda to transfer us from the ranks of prisoners of war to the category of convicts. us to agree to the completely non-pozhensky convention until now in accordance with all norms of international law . before august 24, 2022 , information appeared in the russian propaganda media that a trial was being prepared in mariupol the captured azov people were told that they wanted to hold a public execution there, but because

you were trying, as you say, to establish the status of fascists or nazis in ukraine, and you were considered the fiercest enemies and are considered the fiercest enemies of the russian federation, however, it is considered that you were tried that prevented two events, this is the first murder in russia of daria doginoy, this is the daughter of the famous russian ideologist dugin, who called for the show execution of the azov people in mariupol, and the second - this is your mother, a well-known journalist and writer in the 90s, who is quite gave his interviews clearly for western and russian-speaking audiences that putin actually knows very well what azov is, it is not fascist, but so far he has 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 organizing

this process courts and executions 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 there is a completeness of the picture. of course, it interfered. but i am sincerely grateful to all the services, to those organizations such as azovstal families , to our patronage service, who took part , to all the people who took part, politicians , athletes, soldiers, who took part to prevent this court personally. yes, i saw the letters that my mother professionally formed and submitted the international organizations of the united nations to the president of the united states of america , joe biden. yes, it was really professional

forests, so i am sincerely grateful to all the people who only prayed for us, but also did some specific things to prevent this bloody machine from making such propaganda, a magical show, but to surrender, that is, to finish the matter , that is, we cannot continue to work in this direction to prevent all attempts in the future, because there are still many of our boys and the girls remain there. how did you find out that putin decided to exchange you and your brothers for his godfather viktor medvedchuk ? you already know here, as we all say here on the big land, we already found out after the exchange what was this process? there was not only medvedchuk. well, that is, i will not reveal a big operation, there was a big exchange, that is

. thanks to everyone who worked and i say and works in this direction. not to be executed or to sit already on the walls of the pre-trial detention center, where are my brothers now, i repeat once again. and do you know now, mr. kyrylo, how many azov citizens 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, that is about 700 azov residents and more than 1,500 defenders of azovstal are in captivity, that is, in different units . they are here and in the russian federation, not in the temporarily occupied territories, and their fate is difficult , that's all i can tell you, that's why all of us who are here in our places have to work for it to get them out of there so that their actions

, which we were guided by when they were in the service , were not in vain. we must forget about them and must make every effort to bring them back to everyone's home. to 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, you are a major of the national guard of ukraine, still uh, has your attitude towards the current president of ukraine changed over the past four years and how do you evaluate him now uh, work and a year of the great war in russia against ukraine, you know, i will probably give a rather dry answer there, first i didn’t vote for him, yes, it’s true, uh, now he is my commander-in-chief, and as commander-in-chief i

respect him, are you now planning to return to troops, because i know that you are undergoing rehabilitation and are going through a certain period of adaptation actually after the russian capture. what are your plans . what are your plans? what are your plans ? i am an officer, as you say, i am a major of the national guard of ukraine, that is, of course, i am returning to the service and will continue to be here . it is not yet known in what format until the end . the growth of the preparatory military school of konovalts. it was implemented, it strengthened our army, strengthened our subordinates, that is, we continued to win back our country 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

graduating in the near future yes completely, usually everything is impossible to restore, but thanks to the azov patronage service, thanks to our doctors, thanks also to the rehabilitation center, i already feel much better, the book arrived, that's why i have to come back, i have to fight further, i already mentioned during the program that, well, in fact , a third part of your life is nine years, well, not a third, a little more, less, more precisely, uh, you spent in the war, in the russian-ukrainian war, it is clear that in 2014, hardly anyone i thought that this war would last 9 years and it is not yet known how long it will last. but i think that most of our viewers and tv viewers ask the same question when they see the military and people who know what they are doing when will

the russian-ukrainian war end and in which possible scenarios of the end of this war, in what way should it end, because usually a lot is said 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 with what the end of the russian-ukrainian war , you know, brothers. that's when i probably always answered and still hold all opinions when every citizen of ukraine will start making efforts specifically to end this war is for our victory, everyone in his place does not have to fight, so 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 full stop on this issue, so only in the united our efforts only when everyone contributes, someone working honestly, understanding that it will be difficult for everyone , it is difficult for the guys in the positions, it is difficult for the guys in captivity, it is also difficult for those who work in headquarters without sleep, it is difficult for those who work in factories , even a confident businessman is now for people it is very difficult for us to forgive and it must be understood that it will not be easy and it will not be easy. unfortunately, we will not be able to do it for ourselves, 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, he you his territory, only then we will 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, our strength of spirit does not win back our lands, then the war will continue forever, sir kirill, well, it is obvious that the current war is obvious, do you agree with this that the current war is the final competition of the ukrainians to regain 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 for our freedom and it is in these days and in these years that 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 has appeared of ukraine, that ukrainians have united, that this ukrainian nation has appeared, and i am sincerely grateful to everyone for this, to every ukrainian, that we must continue to kindle this spirit on these foundations and build our public society, our strong , independent, cathedral ukraine and therefore, as taras hryhorovych shevchenko said fight, fight, victory is ours, we will all cope with this task, on this optimistic note, we will put an end to our conversation. thank you, mr. major, for your participation. named after yevhen konovalts, former commander of the second infantry battalion, a man who has been in the russian-ukrainian war for nine years and a man who defended mariupol, this

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