[000:00:00;00] this is public and this is vitaliy shum, colonel of the national guard of ukraine, deputy commander of the spartan brigade, this brigade will be part of the offensive guard, which is now being formed correctly, as our servicemen have proven themselves on the positive side , repulsed the attack on the city of kharkiv , completely cleared the kharkiv region, the boundaries that were determined for us from from the very beginning and we entered this same offensive guard, they gave us the name of the spartan assault brigade, it is so that we have a perspective on the offensive, this is how brigades are formed stormtroopers, both a unit of the national guard and the national police and the state border service, a total of eight assault brigades, those brigades are stationed in

different parts of ukraine, in different regions and regions, and they undertook to liberate crimea, one commitment to liberate kharkiv oblast, donetsk oblast , luhansk oblast, i.e. in general, to go to the frontiers that were still defined by the constitution of 1991, it is created from scratch or on the basis of an already existing unit, it is based on an existing unit , only the number and tanks have changed in us unit and the anti-aircraft missile howitzer division, if you could choose, would you choose? i was surprised when the full-scale invasion began in our country, how the civilian population came to us , that is, people were ready at the moment to defend their state and defend their native home.

there are requirements, you already want someone, we are very interested in the personnel composition , what is the civilian population, what are they motivated , i.e. choosing between a person who fought and someone who wants to but can't do anything. he has problems with the health of such people. we also select. we have different units , such as instructors, they plan training, training, practice, that is, everything is completely twisted, that is, the choice of someone who is trained but not very motivated or motivated , untrained, there is no choice, you will take such and such and you will find different cases for everyone, there is a motivated, educated one, well, he has a previous conviction, what do you do in such cases, we do not take such people, reputation. so , is it accurate to say that during this year, everyone who was able

and wanted and felt the desire and need to leave to defend ukraine, they have been fighting since the beginning of the war, a military unit came to us as a military officer, a civilian of western ukraine, he took care of a family with children. and he turned to the military commissariat, the military mother brothered him, he took a long time without thinking, got on the train and went to kharkiv . right at the railway station, he found police officers began to pull them by all the strings i want to fight guys war they sent him immediately the military commander the military commissar saw what such a person was we got to the brigade there is a question for the military commanders what is the current ratio volunteers and personnel personnel are in the minority, yes, since the first days of the war, conscript soldiers took part, conscripts showed themselves from such a positive side during

the defense of the city of kharkiv and the kharkiv region that some of them are five or six heads higher even than the personnel themselves, now conscript soldiers service who was called up in the 20th year, who was supposed to be demobilized in the spring of the 22nd year, he stayed to fight because he was not demobilized , he is a conscript soldier. and when he is mobilized, he comes who is 19 years old and he is in he did not serve in the army, everyone thinks that he is already so much older when he is mobilized, that is, the person is already so experienced, even with life experience, and such that he is even younger than a conscript soldier and there is absolutely no training, no training at all. if on february 24 at 7:30 in the morning from the territory of our share, according to the calculations of the habib division , a circle was laid on russian tanks at the entrance

to kharkiv conscripts conscripts also with 1 enemy su-24 aircraft, also the calculation of the conscript one shoots down the plane and the second after some time takes in the capture of a lieutenant colonel detained by the russian federation in our brigade was captured on the very first day conscripts were captured in the polonsov brigade repulsed it exactly near kharkov, it was like that in the city before the very beginning of the invasion , roadblocks were already set up, that is, there was information from various sources that probably probably probably we already little by little, they were already preparing, and when the sides of the russian border were already standing at the checkpoints

, they were driving in our cars. already in good faith to say so, the civilians, the military, the military, but i won’t say which structure and they let them through , it turned out that the russian fighters were already on a motor vehicle and that’s how they were captured on the very first day of the war, they came, they were so delighted, you know, they ate mud from them and their uniforms were torn by military tickets , they were all set on fire, their weapons were taken away when the 92nd repulsed them. they asked the servicemen to send them back, there was no such thing as they were hiding, they were afraid we wouldn't go, send us there, a group from vovchansk - these are the famous drg or

not, the sobr riot police were the first to enter, well , the first police units entered, you saw it, there were new ones, there were even more even some of them were, how to say, still in wrappers, they broke up the column, after that they went further , the tanks left because they saw that no one was waiting for them with bread and gray, you had a plot of your own on kiltseva kharkivska, which was confiscated the boundary was determined, that is, on kiltseva itself, starting from that roza witriv, this is like old saltov and all the way to cherkasska lozova, this is an exit to via pyatikhatky, so that is, three exits from the city to pyatikhatky, to circun and to vovchansk . this was your section, and this is proper

was the main direction of the enemy's offensive, the first thing we did was take the battle, then we held the defense, after that for a while they began to push them back little by little, well , it turned out tight . in april, when they moved away from kharkov and september, and in the months of september, well, the months of september, it's already concrete. our counteroffensive has already started with latino kucherpani in dementiivka since june - it's real, as it was for us. like the bermuda triangle, as it was for the russians , chernobaivka was the same for us. dementia after the counteroffensive pushed them all to the border, but there is also rain, and there are constant hostilities there, well, hostilities, you understand. if

the artillery is working from the territory of russia, and we are not working on the territory of russia, did you have to meet with colleagues from the russian guard? came to meet with the valiant 200 brigade of marines, there were cases when they came into contact with them so that they would give the bodies of our servicemen , negotiations did not work out, contact with them dill, we will not communicate anything personally with you, i still have such a specific job after the counteroffensive, i was engaged in searches servicemen excavated and lifted the bodies of all the entire armed forces . whether it was our national guard or volunteers , there was a kraken, which kraken? they fought together with us, lifted them, delivered them for forensic dna tests were constantly selected, so here we have a specific job

, this is your duty. it is precisely these losses that we must report to the families, we inform the families of the funeral identification, because in each part there are lists of the missing, the missing, the dead , as well as the captured. we don't throw them alone. they were just lying there. we also lifted their bodies. well, what does it matter that they rot in a clean field? it would be better for me to be at the front than in my opinion. at first, i thought yes. and when you bring this or that to bury a military serviceman, not every person will be able to endure this. i will tell you that you still need to have willpower and be quick and cold-blooded. well, this is war. well, who is the family of the family

? when did this first fear pass ? this first confusion is a matter of hours or days. i still have confusion. i lost it in in the 14th year in the 14th year in the city of luhansk on april 29, when the detachments had already left, as they called it, and the first thing we did was take the defense of the department of internal affairs of the luhansk region, i took part there. after that, i took part in the luhansk airport together with the 80th brigade airborne assault well, then, i was just confused, the war was different after all. it was just flowers . well, at the moment, our brigade is performing tasks in bakhmut, but there, there. the second war is not the same as what we had in kharkiv. let's count how many soldiers this year, the defense of kharkiv has passed, yes, the first stage is when they attack, we fight back, the next phase

was their distance to the border, they pushed back, after that, the third phase went to us , the counteroffensive of the kharkiv region, they were generally behind the border was expelled, but after that, when the counteroffensive started, there were no russians on the territory of the kharkiv region, the police officers did a rather difficult job when it came to filtering all the settlements , every house had to be worked out, because who knows, the russians could stay, even the locals came up to me and said you you know, two men are coming here to receive a humanitarian aid. well, we don't know them, we haven't seen them before, we waited, they were detained, the documents are gone because they burned down, where do you live in the house? the point came up well, something is very ear-splitting accent well, accordingly, those data of two civilians were immediately handed over to the damn military control , where does the security service come from, do you know fate

, have your suspicions been confirmed, have your war been confirmed, and how do you fight, do you differ in any way from other units of the armed forces of ukraine , nothing, and there is some jealousy ot the national guard and nazis well there, well, the prisoners half a part there exchanged words , shook each other's hands and still do one thing , join the brave, protect yours and now i

a combat medic, all my relatives were surprised that i became a soldier, because i look fragile and weak, and i am all lena stepaniv, who fought for ukraine in the first world war, just as small and became the first female officer in the world, 15% of the ukrainian army are women with their work, courage, honor and with courage, they proved that they are no different from the other 85%. in ukraine there is no weaker sex, your spirit, the strength of your spirit is like a light, it is the light of the whole world, i pray that it will be bright enough to lead you through this darkness, we must

invest everything in the ukrainian people, all my heart with ukrainians hello i am here in ukraine it is impossible to believe how terrible the situation is in ukraine i am with the ukrainians i give my heart to ukraine we must help as much as possible i am very proud of the ukrainian people this war will be finished it must be won i am absolutely sure that they will win my ptsr me led me to the army . i came to understand that i wanted to be a sniper . i wanted to become one so that they were afraid from that side. it is more difficult for a woman in the war. separation

from children is younger. my daughter's mother started to say, but she started to call aunt natasha, she is also a red-haired ukrainian woman, they are incredible mrs. yulia, i welcome you to our studio. good day, you are now, let's say, a super businesswoman . you are a mother, you are a housewife, but you also have military experience behind you. you went to serve to defend ukraine in 2015 on at that moment, did your relatives support your decisions and why did you decide for yourself that it was not military, but the volunteer experience began in the 14th year and well , how many people later proved that from volunteering to military experience is one step because very it was difficult for the volunteers, especially when the full-scale war had not yet begun, it was like living in two worlds, because when you go there , you are with your own people, you try to help

, you worry about them, you return to the peaceful city, where no one notices, i don't even want to hear about the war and does not believe that people are being killed, something is burning, something is being bombed, it is very psychologically difficult to leave, at some point you break down and realize that it is still possible . it will even be easier for you in the war than to continue living in a world where there is no war my ptsr led me to the army. i chose a specialty that i thought would be more effective. yes, i came to understand that i wanted to be a sniper. why exactly our zaporizhia battalion was the 37th zaporizhia battalion. at that time, under shykin, it was

behind mariupol that the task was to drive them away. away from the city so that grady could no longer be reached, just as kombat began to tell someone, i heard that female russian snipers had allegedly arrived and i saw how they were, well, our guys were worried, to put it mildly, that is, i understood that it was something. why not there well, they are afraid and disliked and i wanted to become one, from that side they were afraid that we would have female snipers, most of my tasks were covering intelligence groups that worked in the gray zone well, it's no secret that we have had all these truces since the 15th year

and as such stormtroopers. we could not take any actions to win back our own land. that is, we held the borders for all these years . every day and night, every hour, every minute , this entire territory was watched with thermal imaging cameras , night vision cameras, binoculars. somewhere, this entire line on the map was buried by our trenches. the soldiers who did not stop taking turns for a moment so that this did not happen, so that they did not slip through somewhere, i kept the enemies in sight, but i did not shoot because there were our boys between me and them. you mentioned that our defenders were a little confused, so when they started, what about on the side of the enemy there were women snipers, why are they confused, what exactly was the load well, let's say this, the enemies do not like women snipers very much

, why are they always and very cruel, why can't we get captured in any way, because women have such an attitude, well, in general, it's spring in general they don't like it if they discover a place where a sniper is working, then everyone flies there, as they say, that is, if there is a tank somewhere in the positions, then they will definitely not spare even the last projectile in it, and women have such features as unpredictability, and the brain works a little differently because of that even when the guys there were planning some kind of operations, there were such situations there, intelligence, well, my task is covered, of course, but i sit and watch how they prepare, how they plan, and there once there , the task is very risky, they all

planned everything, thought everything through, i’m coming, i say guys but now let's do everything the other way around, everything is just as you came up with on the contrary, it's like something crazy i say well, let's understand from the other side they are the same as you, they will count you out and if we do everything the other way around, then they will not in any case guess the main thing in war to deceive, well, it is so because even if you have overwhelming forces, even a lot of equipment and so on, the one who plans well and whose plans the enemy does not know and will not be able to understand what exactly he wants actually wins your path from a volunteer to a military and military sniper how the relatives reacted, they didn't know what

it was the sniper, of course, i said that i would be in the headquarters, because i don't know that i would go to the 37th battalion . and it was difficult with the children, that is, they were very small, i had two children, a daughter and a son, the son was seven years old, the daughter was 9, and i left them for my mother and well, my husband also fought me, that is, there was neither father nor mother all these years. this is a difficult story, it is more difficult for a woman in the war, separation from children when i gave birth to my girls, that is, twins, who will now be three years old on march 17, the same situation, that is father i will return home a father remained at the front and he was able to escape only to the maternity hospital in the maternity ward and stay with us there for 10 days. we were somehow

lucky, as i say, and then all these years already on the dumbbell. i waited for him in september before the full-scale and for several months we were really you were a family together from 2015 to 2019. you served. how did you manage? you mention that it is really difficult when men. women for a mother it is when something happened to the child and you are hundreds of kilometers away and you cannot be near , that is, the child is sick and you can't, that is , you have already used up all of your vacation and you do not

have the right to go to the child who, for example well, i broke my back, there are three vertebrae, a compression fracture, and he is lying down and i am not around, and even just come to settle everything with the doctors and just hold his hand for at least a few days. this is the most difficult thing, because i found out that i have a daughter there she fell down, lost consciousness, and no one knows what happened to her, and we are right on the line, but right in the trenches, it is forbidden to let even those who are on vacation leave anywhere, and i then came to the dugout to this company commander, i say, i am going home, i give him the machine gun, he says no, i'm saying you didn't understand. i'm going home. my child fell. i don't know

what's wrong with her, and he also has a child, and he understands that it's not possible. he understands that, well, i'm going to lose my shoulder straps and so on, but he understands that first of all, he won't stop me. secondly, he can also be in the same situation. i think that everyone says yes, of course, go and speculate about it. well, i'm a woman there, i have children, i 'll go home there 10 times a day. no, but when it's really serious, everyone will understand you, and because it 's you you won't be a combat unit, you won't be able to find a place for yourself there in this war, you don't do any stupid things there, ukrainian women are incredible. they all proved it by volunteering with their crazy, proved it selflessness, proved it in the occupation, even these

grandmothers, who were not afraid, they are when the war turned out to be full-scale, my husband and i again simply collected the things we found and went to the place where they give weapons in order to immediately get there somewhere where they can be stopped, so again, i left four children with my grandmother, but she is already very old with us, and there was no time to think in i say this as an instinct, we. to be honest, i did not think that we would return back then. no one knew how it would end. if someone says that they knew from the first days that we would win or stop there. no, there were many of us. when those who were in the war, we went. we understood very well that we would most likely die , but at least we will try something, at least somehow we will delay them, of course , we will not be able to stop them most likely, but

at least somehow we will delay and hinder them, that is why they did not say it there, but but that's what everyone meant. because we didn't have aviation for these years, we didn't have so much artillery, rockets didn't fly anywhere, and it was a little different , to put it mildly, many of us trained civilians right there. we left then not on your own for the first day at the roadblocks in front of the fence, we were waiting for this. well, the russians from the rpg, when the full-scale war began in 2022, you still chose to remain a mother, wife , housewife, business woman, yes. no, the first

month i was at the wedding. well , we went with my husband for a month. prevented the boys from sleeping. we are in the same house. there are 15 people. i have already hid there in the middle of the night. i used to go there. one of them coughs on the street so as not to wake the boys , but i was already suffocating when they took us out of there. and we are going there, and we went, and on the way, my husband spoke to me and said, well, go to the hospital. let them at least give you a fluoroscopy so that it is not inflammation of the lungs . you know. and they took me and they did a fluoroscopy . there's acute bronchitis, that's it. well, i say, i'm suffocating, and they put me down, put me down, put me down for an hour

in the ward, and i went to beg , i say, let me go, please, i'm there, guys, i can't, you guys, give me injections, i can inject myself, i can do everything myself, i, well, i can do everything one thing i'm going to run away. well, you understand. my phone is charging in the car. i'm leaving now. i sat down and went to my house. i'm not going anywhere. i'm going to my boyfriend . it's march . it's the 20th of march. and i sat down and happily called my husband. where are you i'm very well now he says wait let's go home now and i'll come later we'll chat ah well i came while these pills were there drank tea and changed clothes now he's moving he says come on now they took us out altogether that is, there

to the side we do not know dnipropetrovsk region what will happen next? you understand, well, you need to lie down in a warm place, i say. well, the children were no longer at home . by our side, it turned out that on the third day of the war , a rotorcraft had already been shot down in our place, and there were pieces and an explosion fell somewhere nearby. the children were scared. and we already were there under the cornflower and the children were scared. i couldn't leave my own and the volunteers took them to western ukraine, that is, i came home with a bunch of toys but there was no one at home. well , i got treated. after a couple of days , my husband came and we talked very seriously with him, we cursed a little and so further he says well you do you understand that now the children are with completely different people, who will need our children if the two of us will die from one me now four children four let's go yes i will be in the war and you are at home and then i still haven't received treatment but