[000:00:00;00] some pirate lived there, probably probably the commander of the russians on the 24th somewhere around five in the morning at 5:50 somewhere here was the first arrival of toli, they missed the tables and wiped out parts of toli . the funnel went and this explosion woke us up at five in the morning at about 6 o'clock they announced that the war had started, so get ready , there was an alarm for us to go out to go out through the territory of the plant and can give a rocket attack and immediately put out prepare people as

it has already been reported that some saboteurs are coming towards the fatigues , they said to pay attention to us saboteurs with red ribbons at the last command of my boss, part of the deceased was to stand in this place and i was protecting the old exile who was near me and also to protect the most important they are the dreams of ukraine. we left in the last slava from a car that was a bomb bomber in the future. we were at this place and met the attack of russian cities on this very day .

buchi, irpin, gostomel, the roads were all clogged, it was very difficult to get there. well, i drove for about 6 hours. well, i arrived at 12:00 in the afternoon . they saw a helicopter flying here. they thought maybe some saboteurs and we went here to the part. well, when we left for the airstrip, so to speak , there were already a lot of those helicopters on the way here, and we flew in. well, i’ll say it straight, the road here

was not very good, but we flew into the part above helicopters were circling part of it, there were seven people in the part when the helicopters were shooting, it was not clear where they were shooting, why they were shooting at, since we don't have a basement bomb shelter, we hid in an observation pit to inspect cars here , the thickest monolithic ceiling was here , and then we saw that ours were merging over the strip of the first helicopter was shot down in that direction. there was a chimney rising a little more easily, the boeing caught fire , the plane burned, so we were still there now to the place, as there was no command to retreat and once to change clothes, and after a few minutes we saw that our applicators were not far above us, absolutely flying on our side, and as the radio station had already transmitted the command to take the day of the storage, you began to run above us, and the helicopters of our

settlers took off only cars are lip-dreams, we have because we were running local states and we already saw a little further, when we ran out we saw that the landed helicopters had been shot down , the landing party was already coming out of them, the helicopters were flying, shooting , shelling, and then silence. well, just it's unbelievable, there is no equipment , there is absolutely no one, it's just silence , the training units gave the order, let's all have similar bombs. well, he was the first to leave in a fire engine with two of ours, a driver and a soldier.

and a gas mask, and when i ran up to the car, i already saw that a helicopter appeared again on the territory of the factory. well , i even ordered those who stayed with me to do all the parts, and we ran after about half an hour. the first helicopter landed opposite , parts of it poured out. well, about 20 paratroopers turned right away with sapper shovels and began to drip in there after 10 minutes. well, right on this steering track, about 20 people also fell out. they did not report to the main command that they were capturing us. on the 24th, our brigade took the fight against the russian occupier immediately . in two locations of our country, the main part of our brigade, that is, we are talking about

a battalion, a tactical group, with all the equipment with artillery and anti-aircraft means, they were already on a scheduled rotation in the east in the area of ​​the village of luhanska, here gostomel airport and our part were guarded. mainly the soldiers of strokov and the management officers, we are not talking about the people who make up the main fighting force of our brigade. and we are talking about military psychologists, we are talking about accountants. the total number of people who defended gostomel that day is less 200 people, the number of personnel of the russian landing force, this is the elite one that landed here, according to our estimates, from 200 to 300 people, modern russian

k-52 helicopters, which are used for support of their infantry and for the task of air 0, this is the so-called indestructible flying tank, as the russians like to advertise on their propaganda tv channels. well, we actually see that it is here exactly in the form in which it should be on ukrainian soil. i think that this is exactly what all russian equipment should look like, this turntable was shot down by our guys on the 24th with the help of a manpads needle. it was at the moment when he passed over their position that they lowered a missile in pursuit of him. and here it is improved to this state on the 24th, our observers counted from 35 to 40 helicopters on the territory of the unit on the territory of the airport, but later, when we clarified information from our air

defense with people from other services, we learned that 140 russian helicopters crossed the border that morning of belarus and ukraine , our guys managed to land six helicopters, in approximately this condition. with small arms, that is, from automatic weapons and machine guns, well, again, they are being reformed as flying tanks that cannot be knocked down, but we managed to do it, this cartridge from a 30-mm air projectile for the k-52 air cannon, they fired at us from their automatic guns and with the help of nursov are not guided missiles. in fact, the entire territory of the gostomel airport that was hit

by their shelling can be seen on the hangars , er, holes from nurs. they fired at us that morning, this is another k52 that was improved by our manpads, the needle was directly shot down over the airfield there, it fell behind us on the eighth e-e. it was an amphibious helicopter, one of the three that we shot down and from the amphibious assault on board. that is, we can say that somewhere in the waters of the russian paratroopers that day did not land i was able to because i was a senior, i will call according to my position. i was the first to raise my hands with my id card. i came out here through this door. everyone who remained behind me told us to lie on the ground. we lay down. they took our documents and phones. well, we lay on the concrete. we

were then allowed to stand and stand against the wall. they said come on texts, they told us that you are not interesting, everything will be fine, then they took us to the second floor, and the psychological relief room is called here, they kept it here, and i understand that somewhere there , the groups did not clash with each other, and they arranged a shootout here, well he says why did you arrive so early? and why did you arrive so late ? well , a lot of them were brought, a lot of ammunition began to fire at us. the russian paratroopers who landed behind the reporting line were advancing in this direction. and it was precisely

in this gap where we are that the first battle took place, the first clash with our soldiers who were defending the airport , the car of the commander of our unit was fired upon , and it was in this place that our national guardsmen accepted the first battle and here our guys held the defense for roughly a couple of hours , here the russians from the stake must be covered by a huge number of helicopters , there were also two su-25s circling above us after a few hours of battle about uh, we are starting to run out of bc and we understand that fighting effectively against aviation without anti-aircraft means, well , it is very difficult, the first decision was to withdraw from the territory of the part from the territory of the airport to regroup, the decision was made to launch an artillery strike on the reporting strip and

disable it as well to this, the artillery of the 72nd mechanized brigade, which was located here under the gostomel, joined in, and as a result, the airstrip was damaged, and the russian landing party was left here to actually throw it at will. why, because uh, their the task was to take control of the airport and ensure the height of the main forces here, the main forces were already in the air at this very moment, there were already 18 planes 86 that were supposed to land here together with the equipment, together with the personnel, since the main forces could not land, they landed in belarus after that how did we get to the ambo storage, we were at first of the armed forces of ukraine then

they went on the offensive we were left alone that's why we closed the bysovyshche and were there for two hours two hours for each 5-10 minutes there the bombardment of our land, saddergas, bomb shelters, plaster was falling, at that time we thought that everything was over, the factories were there , the senior manager of the factory was there, he made the decision to come to the victory over the russians and return to take out the civilians, since we had wounded , he said that he would return, that we would all be let go, everything it will be good, we can go, but there, with emaciated hands, they moved the dok of the income control point to antonov, and there we have other states under our forces, he says don’t worry, we sent you save one woman's tail we'll help you everything will be fine and i'll be fine well, it wasn't hard to put

in how it is, but when the airport is bombarded , they run into us again in the crowd. shells were being prepared between us , when the shelling was over, they ran away again, took us at gunpoint and squeezed five of us into a pile. other fighters were wounded on 24.02. on the last trip, i left on this patriot car , this is all that was left of it, it was the 35th move of our unit, primarily as a result of this battle, we managed to prevent the landing

of the main forces that were heading in gostomel, e.e. we managed to disrupt moscow's plans, which provided for the creation of an air connection between gostomel and the russian federation , otherwise , all these hostilities are all that we saw. in kyiv, we prevented the landing of these main forces that could have been used to break through to kyiv, and we managed to prevent a huge, huge number of casualties among the civilian population in the capital itself. the first battle gave a chance to call it

a marathon . they use the entire range of weapons against the ukrainian military , including even tear gas grenades volodymyr zelenskyi announced this in his evening address, let's listen to the president i wish you health, dear ukrainians, today began an extended and detailed rate meeting, including reports from the front line from our commanders in the hottest areas, commander-in-chief zuluzhny reported on the general frontline situation of enemy missile attacks on our positions, of course special emotions are evoked by the reports on donetsk region, luhansk region, we are doing everything to deter enemy attacks there, constant intensive assaults by russia does not stop even though he suffers huge losses there, the syrian general reported on the bakhmut and liman directions, fierce

battles, principled battles, we do everything to support of our guys, general tarnavskyi reported on the battles in avdiivsk and other areas, the occupiers are using the entire range of weapons against our guys there, including even tear gas grenades, but it is very important to put some pressure on our forces, the front line, have not undergone any changes. i thank all our fighters, all soldiers and sergeants for this officers to the generals who protect the respective front lines were at the stake of the report of other commanders and leaders of our defense and security forces in the north, and the person of the moskalyov listened to their reports of the situation without significant changes, the intelligence of the leadership of the budanovs regarding the real situation, russian flirting with rhetoric about strategic weapons, foreign intelligence, the security service of ukraine, the forces of the ministry of internal affairs and the national guard, the border service, the minister of defense, other representatives of the government, we pay full attention to

every detail of our defense plan and the ambitions of the enemy, there was also a report of the prime minister of ukraine denys shmygal regarding the situation in the energy sector and the process of restoring our energy system after the russian strikes, i want to note we have good news good results and this here, all our energy workers, repairmen, representatives of central and local authorities who performed the relevant tasks in most of the territory of ukraine , we provide the energy needs of people and enterprises, we continue our diplomatic marathon to strengthen ukrainian soldiers and our entire state, met today with the delegation of italy, led by the prime minister - the minister of mrs. giorgia melanie italy, in principle , strongly supports us in the struggle for independence, there is a new package of defense

support, which includes, in particular, air defense, there is readiness italy to cooperate with us for the implementation of the peace formula. and this includes such an important point as justice, that is , a tribunal for the aggressor, a compensation mechanism for ukraine. new sanctions against russia were discussed today. i am grateful to all italians for the historical support of ukraine on the way to euroso when we won candidacy. the position of italy gave a very important impetus to the position of the entire european union this year, i believe we will be able to achieve even greater progress and i did everything to get to the beginning of the negotiations on the membership of ukraine today i met with the delegation of the us congress, this is an important signal, very important for our country, the entire region and the world . yesterday, president biden was in kyiv. today, representatives of the congress, namely members of the republican party, our cooperation with america does not stop for a day, not even for a minute, together we effectively strengthen global

security. by the way, the confused complaints coming from moscow are just additional proof of our effectiveness in ukraine, the united states, and the entire free world, another russian army fired brutally today in kherson there are wounds, there are deaths, we sympathize with all those who lost loved ones, this russian shelling did not and could not have any military purpose, like thousands of similar russian shellings, which are the true message of russia to the world , a terrorist state, for nothing, rockets on the streets of the city, on the residential buildings, on the schools, on the pharmacies and hospitals, churches, bus stops , markets, power stations, trying to tell the world that terror is supposed to be reckoned with. i am sure that we will replace

the terrorist state, all ukrainians and our world our army, our intelligence, our security service and other ukrainian forces will find and destroy those who inflict these brutal attacks on kherson, on our other cities and regions, and more broadly, we will prove that it is worth living freely with only humanity, only with the un charters and only with the rights of every people and protected from terror and such crazy aggressions as the russian one. i thank everyone who protects our state. i thank everyone who fights for ukraine at the front right now, who keeps our borders, who protects our sky, our sea, who produces and supplies equipment. and ammunition for our soldiers and who provides us with high-quality intelligence information. glory to our soldiers, eternal memory , everyone's honor was taken by russia and this war

. glory to ukraine, the marathon continues. we have operational information in kharkiv, poltava , dnipropetrovsk, zaporizhzhia and donetsk regions. or to safer places, we are monitoring the situation and promptly informing you, meanwhile, the marathon continues, the russians are losing in their attempts to destroy the ukrainian energy system, the head is confident the board of ukrenergo, volodymyr kudrytskyi, however, it will be difficult for them to admit this, and therefore, for now, attempts to attack energy infrastructure objects will probably continue , thanks to which ukrainian homes have recently become more light. but can the price of electricity increase with the head of ukrenergo , olena renovska, they will attack as long as

they are useless in these strikes, from a military point of view, it is no longer and from the point of view of efforts there to make some long-term blockade, there is no p kudrytskyi i congratulate you on to the first channel of public broadcasting thank you for your time good day and thank you for the invitation it is really nice to start with good news we are recording this interview after several days already in kyiv there is light not only in kyiv but also in several regions eh please tell us how long this will last and how it was achieved after several months of such a strict economy, several important factors coincided, why it was possible to overcome this huge deficit that has been with us for

several months, first of all, it was possible to restore sufficiently large amounts of generating capacity, i.e. power plants of power units that produce electricity, they will be damaged during the shelling there in december, in january it was possible to restore a sufficiently large amount of equipment and these power units and their power, of course, now helps to balance the system , some nuclear power units also came out of remote control in planned mode and this was also a significant factor that made it possible to add additional power to the power system; hydrogeneration is also very active and intensively operating there connected with the water content of the dnipro river and the desna river, the dniester river, those rivers where our hydroelectric power plants are located

. that is, it is a seasonal factor. you can say it is a natural factor. and this is an import during these two months. in january and february, it also helps to balance the power system, that is , we included a number of factors that worked in favor of the power system, the main one of course is the restoration of power grids. trunk networks, mainly ukrenergo and oblenergo, are restoring their networks, which if they are damaged and the restoration of generation, well, and the rest of the factors that simply helped us to overcome this deficit, and now we really have no energy deficit for the fourth day, we do not provide consumption limits for the regions, we still have certain restrictions on electricity consumption only in those regions that were damaged and have not yet

had time to fully restore the networks there, that is, it is impossible to physically deliver the entire amount electricity that these regions need through the network because it is broken. and the restoration of the network is exactly what we are actively working on at ukrenergo so that there are no bottlenecks and in all regions we can get rid of blackouts by taking advantage of the fact that the generation is still sufficient, how long will it last? well in general , we will do everything independently in order to maintain this situation. if we have at our disposal the volumes of electricity production that we have now, and we hope to continue to increase them, then in principle, we should enter a period without such long-term severe deficits, but here, unfortunately , the war and these massive missile attacks that

are repeated again and again will make adjustments. will happen where the enemy will aim and therefore it is very difficult to predict what state the power system will be in after the next attacks on it. if such attacks happen, then without taking into account this factor, which is very difficult to predict, i think that we will succeed gradually to improve and improve the situation over time, i noticed that every time, for example, ukrenergo says that the situation has improved , a lot of people ask whether it is worth bragging about the fact that it was possible to repair networks somewhere, or will this not attract russia to strike again at the same place or at at some strategic points. let's say that you answer such people. well, first of all, we never say exactly where. and what we fix, we say in general sentences. as you probably

noticed, we do not name specific objects. substations or power plants where we repaired something or turned it on, firstly, that is why the enemy does not know for sure from this communication what exactly happened, what exactly was repaired, what exactly and to some extent was damaged, secondly, we cannot not communicate that certain events are happening in our energy system because this russian company is against the ukrainian energy system, it affects every ukrainian and you can't just ignore a person's request for information, keep silent, people need to be given information, explain what's happening , comment on what's happening, what they had information, we understood what to expect because, er, we can look at the situation from the other side, er, in reality , people had not faced such strict restrictions on energy consumption for a very long time before

these shellings began in october, and we cannot keep er let's say the ukrainian population and ukrainian enterprises are also in such a complete information vacuum, and it is also important that people understand that the energy and defense forces are doing this necessary and the authorities are actually doing this necessary in order for the situation to improve that there is light at the end of the tunnel and we we just all have to gain patience and endurance in order to win on the energy front, and we see that this is an absolutely real, literally energy front , where shelling takes place, where people die, unfortunately , and here too. it is important that ukrainians act together with the government, the defense forces, and the energy industry as one team. we inform everyone what is happening. indeed, i said here that you may have questions, but there are many people who, on the contrary, note the work

of energy workers as extremely positive, because we see that they are often extremely prompt it is possible to quickly solve some problems, you mentioned losses , and i will clarify whether you have any statistics on how many employees of the energy system of ukraine . yes, different units have been injured or killed since october, when these attacks started. well, i can say about my company. unfortunately, six our employees have been killed since the beginning of these shellings, they died at their workplaces, and therefore all of us who work in this field now bear certain personal risks, and those people who work, especially at substations, repair power lines. their work is not only very difficult, it is also very dangerous. and on the contrary, have you had to find traitors in your ranks, people through whom this or