[000:00:00;00] that is why the future of ukraine depends on you. that is why we are doing everything so that on february 24, 2022, ukrainians all over the country wake up at dawn to the sound of explosions. war is now everywhere. this morning, president putin announced a special military operation in donbas. russia carried out strikes on our river infrastructure and on our border guards and the border detachment in many cities of ukraine heard an explosion, we are imposing martial law on the entire territory of our country , and the world of force will again suffer the biggest blow the defenses located in the donbas are still at home so that the russians cannot fulfill their invading dreams of capturing and

dissecting , and then we read the meaning. the kremlin's full-scale war against ukraine did not start suddenly, the so-called exercises in belarus, the accumulation of russian troops on the ukrainian border, the enemy was preparing for an open invasion for months on february 24 . not even that much, i will even say february 24 + 23, when we already discovered the columns in their initial position, not that the columns are already in the enemy's battle formations somewhere at a distance

somewhere 5-8 km from the seversky donets, the battalions of the tactical group were already concentrated by crossing means, i.e. with pontoons by means of flamethrowers, heavy flamethrower systems to break through the first line of our defense, but ukraine is also making efforts, combat units in the east are prepared and hardened for eight years of combat clashes with the enemy the grouping of all, without exception, the power structures works harmoniously and efficiently, this is something that the russian officers clearly did not expect , just as they were directly engaged in intelligence there before the development of aerial reconnaissance well, they already blocked and set up roadblocks against possible attacks and strengthened our units located there, they entered into cooperation with the military and border guards, they already organized defense on the spot, everyone in their place, the police, the army, the sbu, the national guard , rescue and medical services, while the population calmly walks on work and study lives

his everyday life ukrainian military prepares carefully everything possible, we did all the reserves were patronized practically went to different lovers because we could not predict clear actions, but the calculation options were all problems, time is of the essence, when exactly russia will launch a massive offensive, even in the kremlin, a limited circle of people knows the orders, the classified tasks of russia , field commanders receive dosed in envelopes that are opened only at the time appointed from above, that is, they have communication it was clear. i understand that they had, when they already reached us. there were some of their materials, they had certain points, so here you have to beat. and why could not one group go there, but 3-4 groups, that is, they did not even count the fact that if

one group somehow fell out or none fell out, all three would come, but it was from the principle that although the date would arrive, several months before that, we began quite powerful preparations for a possible invasion, starting to work out various possible options, the enemy’s flesh is acting the group's entourage provokes the russians and creates formal pretexts for an offensive in donbass, shelling intensifies , the ax of war hangs in the air , everyone from the top officers to the soldiers in the trenches feels it right away, we immediately felt that what is there they say that if a rifle is hanging, then it must shoot, so er, in any case, this is considered to be the threat of a large-scale offensive of the enemy somewhere er, since december, we have already

seen the movement of the columns that were accumulating. that is, why was it precisely the line of happiness and the towns of luhansk, because we saw that below us is located in luhansk. we saw the raising of forces and reserves there, namely , the russian military e-e, only where there is an energy generator, regular units were already entering. a clear concentration of forces in order for them to prepare, we understood and calculated this secretion that they are preparing for a strike to rub on the control points, establish communication and destroy the system of interaction between the units of the ukrainian defense forces, this is what the russians needed to achieve success in the offensive on february 24 first of all, valuable blows were first of all struck at the command posts and at the command

post where i was during the fall, but people were moved, all shelters, bunkers are unique photos that you are seeing for the first time, no one has published them before, the command center of the operation of the joint forces in the time gap, not in donetsk region, this is one of the first targets of the russian missile strikes, but the ukrainian command was ready for this, the only thing that was lost for a certain time was the communication of the exercises. that the blow was very powerful, but this did not prevent us from losing the control system, since there were separate types of communication and the city was controlled, moreover, everyone on the ground knew what to do, every commander knew his task, which was to carry out his task calmly, so there was no nobody panicked, everyone was ready for this, the occupiers are trying to sow panic among the ukrainian army, but the security and defense units throughout the country are putting up resistance that russia did not expect, from east to west

, combat units are disrupting all the plans of the occupiers. 2008 system of task performance first in the operation zone of the anti-terrorist operation, then the operation of the poor forces of the luhansk region becomes the field for a bloody battle , the situation here for several years was relatively calm and now the enemy is actively is trying to advance towards severodonetsk, the temporary regional center until february, if you don't count there until the beginning of february. in general, stanislavskyi was also lucky, one of the quiet areas, we had a police station there, somewhere at the beginning of february, sniper fire began, and attempts to fix our forces, which were on a water obstacle they recorded, they were fired upon, they were shot at, well, they received an answer, intelligence groups also entered and fought with them, here are more unique shots, these are

the first prisoners of war who were under fire they tell their own troops what they were looking for on ukrainian land, how many came with you. if this is how to write it unambiguously. how much are soldiers on the line of fire and officers in command centers in the first days of the great war ? enables each team to survive we worked on the spot along the possible boundaries according to the possible options of actions in principle everyone knew a clear plan how to act in one or another situation because in principle war is as possible a game of chess and not but uh, with many unknowns, we can say that’s why we worked out in each direction what could happen in the exact situation, knowing approximately the strength

of the enemy, the composition of his units, we understood what where and how it could be, but the forces are unequal, so sometimes, in order to save the lives of soldiers , a serviceman with the call sign gypsy had to retreat tells how he organized the cover for the withdrawal of ukrainian units in luhansk region and was surrounded . i managed to leave with some calculations. at the headquarters, the anti-tank division stands and meets the enemy and holds on until the infantry regroups for further control of the battlefield. and the villages of the donbass resemble hell too much . hundreds of thousands of enemy shells are methodically destroying

mariupol, severodonetsk, lysychansk and hundreds of other settlements. that flew in our direction, it was non-stop, it was hundreds , it was just super, there was no free five minutes so that nothing would fly in our direction, many are returning home already on the shield, but the military medics fight for the life of every soldier, the wounded are taken from the battlefield in incredibly difficult conditions. marina joined the military in 2019, the girl tells about the beginning of the full-scale invasion, she already had combat experience , graduated

from medical college. she went to serve in the ranks of the armed forces. without the right to fatigue and emotions, day after day she saves the lives of her comrades. the 19th of the sixth month was the most memorable, because on that day 19 people were taken out of the position, and they were in serious trouble it was very, very difficult to get them out, and i remember this day the most because after we got them out, on the 20th, the occupiers' equipment began to enter the village of ustinivka, where we were, and the people who were standing in positions in the trenches, they were already at our ksp and

that is, the battle had already taken our boys to the ksp, and well, it was difficult to go to lysychansk , then some time passed and our troops were completely withdrawn from lysychansk, maryna's boyfriend is also a military man, despite the lack of communication and rare chances to see his beloved, they tried to support each other as much as they could it was february 5, when my loved one knocked over a tank, at that moment we were all very happy and before that well, i heard on the phone that he knocked over a tank and i knew that he was alive, this is the best news for me, tarina was merciless and one day maryna gets the most painful in

to my life the news on 10.06 when on 10.06 in the luhansk region my beloved person died , they immediately wrote to me for this, our boss approached me delicately and explained the situation to me, but there was simply no time to survive my own tragedy around a dozen of those whether life depends on her if to be honest, it was very difficult, i was distracted by the fact that it was necessary to provide massive aid to the resistance of the ukrainian army, it is admired all over the world already in the first days of the aggression , the russian army suffers significant losses in manpower and equipment, according to the estimates of ukrainian and international experts, russia has not yet suffered even in any war roughly because of the large

losses in such a short time and the first day we met, in principle, we were repulsed. all attacks inflicted huge losses on the enemy , but the group that they created, well the ratio is very much not in our favor, the concept of the rear ceased to exist in one moment on the night of february 24, 2022, hundreds of thousands of ukrainians in search of a safe place leave their homes, take women, children, pets along with their families somewhere hundreds of kilometers behind, many are in the trenches in donbas i could only guess that part of the business cities have now become temporarily occupied territories . and what the occupiers did to the families of the soldiers , the whole world knows

, every commander tried to support the soldiers in such conditions. firstly, there was a message that we are doomed to success, secondly, there was a message that the enemy should be stopped here and now, because the further he goes, the further he goes , the stronger he will become, and the fact that for years russia has stationed its agents all over ukraine after the beginning of the full-scale invasion, they came out of the shadows, those who caught the last, i will say the main activation of all these hidden concerts , which were preserved, which received information. it all took place on the 24th, but on the 24th, it became active, that is, to say that they went there every day to reconnoitre. well, it is so impossible. on the 24th, their activation was clear, because the military objects were thrown by all kinds of flashlights, by all kinds of radio points right near our bases, and this also became one task

quickly to look for all this, including precisely because the enemies in the east restrained the grouping of the united forces, which prevented the division of the defense forces, the ukrainian army was able to defend the capital, the russians simply did not have enough strength to hold two huge fronts , and in the end, after he suffered huge losses near kyiv and realizing that it cannot fight in two directions, the rest of the forces were removed and transferred again from the direction of kyiv to the direction of luhansk , donetsk region, in order for at least one city to have some success in developing two successful counteroffensive operations of the ukrainian army , first in the kharkiv region and later in the south , they showed that the army that called itself the second in the world broke its teeth in ukraine, but the war

is still going on, priority next, that this is only the beginning, nothing is finished yet, this is it's just starting and that's how it really happened that the enemy is very strong and insidious and that we need to take into account all of these, all of this, and we need to go there, we move on, we work on, you know, whoever says that it wasn't scary, you were lied to , it was scary. there was no panic, everyone accepted the fight and already left, then the realization was already on the fifth day, but then it was even scarier , and technically because well, in many cities, the boys survived the first rush, and what's still happening now, well, that's later it is realized in battle, you don't feel it, what the kremlin planned to do with a blitzkrieg gradually turned into a war of attrition. moscow was forced to look for additional resources , equipment and people, and considering it necessary to make

the following decisions about conducting a partial mobilization in the russian federation. western weapons in the hands of ukrainians allowed to violate logistics and coordination of the russians , command posts and warehouses with weapons of the occupiers were destroyed one by one. increasingly, gaulites and kremlin appointees have to make excuses because of cotton, and the military leadership is forced to deconserve weapons from the second world war. february 22 is forever etched in the minds of ukrainians. those events united the ukrainian nation and hardened the ukrainian army . it is even more difficult to say that i would have slept. 2-4 hours a day of work where hostilities did not stop in rounding did not stop and

it was necessary to constantly have information in order to transfer reserves e-e manage hostilities because the situation was constantly changing and if we lost control even for a minute, what specific consequences could there be? donbass is still the hottest point of the russian-ukrainian war , the hit of hostilities in the east and now affects the situation in other parts of the front, for every centimeter of ukrainian land, the enemy has to pay hundreds of lives of our own military , that someone underestimated us there , as they say, i didn't think there, i thought that they would be greeted with flowers, and that too, but still, the main merit is the merit of our armed forces other components of the defense forces and our people in relation to the armed forces, according to the aggressor, this is the main merit. that is, we gave them

to carry out their intentions of ukraine today . because if he had not interfered with these groups with these means that remained after the destruction of the screwing, strengthen and the south will strengthen and the north will develop additional slavic attacks on kyiv and mykolaivna odesa . on march 16, 2022, the un international court of justice ordered russia to stop

the hostilities in ukraine that began on february 24, 2022. enemies must be stopped, you protect your own faith gives us strength and we believe that spring will defeat winter , light will defeat darkness, unity will defeat strife with a bitch, it will win at the gate, life will win death, life will win a year ago, russia unleashed a great war in ukraine, as well as for hundreds of ukrainian athletes for for me, the choice was obvious to compete for the victory of my native country on the front line instead of a tennis court trenches instead of a racket in my hands a weapon instead of wildon on a hotter point indomitable bakhmut

instead of russian belarusian athletes support russia's aggression against ukraine, remain silent and continue to compete in a natural status and do not pretend itp and wt is a shameful decision of amok in general to consider the admission of these athletes to the olympics under a neutral flag however, we all know that it is directed by ukrainian blood, i urge you to support ukraine on on the sports front, when you do everything possible to exclude russian and belarusian athletes from all international competitions and olympian terrorists for a place in sports

, the silence knocks me down . i didn't know what to do when my wife and child i guess i shot, i understand that this is a code. well, you don't want to believe valyusha, очень приятный человечек, вот она хорошая , we called him an angel among people . february 24, 2022, the day that changed the lives of millions of ukrainians. in chernihiv, i met a person who proved by his own example that we are an invincible nation. peaceful chernihiv has been the defense force of ukraine for 13 months, forcing the occupiers to dig their heels for their ledge , but on february 24, 2022

, a real war came here. oleksiy afanasyev was then an ordinary local businessman engaged in with coffee machines, the man remembers until the end, he did not believe that russia had begun to open a full-scale invasion, he grasped the terrible reality with the first explosions, when they heard the first reports of explosions, when they began to reach us in chernihiv, very well , the explosions were already heard, uh, the air traffic alarm started with this horn. what, ants? we went for the skin, so then i probably realized that something had started , but i didn't know what to do, she is my godfather's wife, my godfather's child, er, we are people, not soldiers. well, i guess

they were waiting for some kind of impulse, what to do next at first, the man says, there was no understanding of what to do next. from the 25th, they already searched google in the phone. what is he doing, where, what , what, friends were calling. who is a military serviceman ? they say that so far they do not give civilian weapons to only military servicemen, those who are retired , but on the third day i heard a call to arms without conspiring to defend my hometown together with oleksiy, his relatives and closest friends pavlo ihor, i didn't call anyone , i gathered myself and left already on the way i called whom i tell you where and he says i'm going to get a weapon i say he throws the car, they all went alone, he goes to me in the car, he says one to the third point, so that it was a complete trojan . he says he is a thug, he already took the queue

for weapons at 7 o'clock, well, he was recruited, he says that the weapons are finished. well, we say in unison on the loudspeaker we know where the weapons are handed in. this photo was taken on the same day. here is a photo of the two godfathers of oleksiy, who were still alive at the time . none of them had any military experience, but immediately the men went on their first combat mission, to look for russians on the outskirts of the city. everyone got bogged down. loaded into kamaz because they were afraid to take their vehicles on a combat trip, and we were in rafchik , a guy from sanya was urbanizing, the guy was handsome, there were the first shelling of civilian buildings, smoke and uh, in that area , enemy equipment was hit and according to information, they ran away, we sent them search if you saw a russian then on the first day

he would probably shoot probably shoot and for oleksiy afanasyev the military life of the teroboron siruina began all that was left of one of the chernihiv schools then in february of last year it became a home for of chernihiv and defense, it was the first if you could say so, the hub where the volunteer was brought, where we were fed, where we were instructed , where we left for combat missions, it was the first place where we started to read and gain military experience, where the guys told us how to take apart a machine gun, how to take apart what to do with it in all the nuances of this, but even then oleksiy and his friends understood how dangerous it was. we took night shifts

there . at the beginning of march, the commanders of the teroboron decided to relocate their fighters to another place, they did not have time on march 3, real hell began in chernihiv, one of the first bombs fell right here 5 minutes before the terrible explosion , oleksiy went out into the street. i forgot the list that someone said would make it who is in the squad surname name phone number contact person where the hell did i forget the list and wanted to call so that the best man would bring the list and he forgot the phone there already in

the room and here the sound of the plane plane whistling alex screams for air, everyone is under the trees. and as i was standing, i was smoking like that. i don't understand why i was smoking. i was smoking like that, and when it stopped, everyone could see it pouring out of all the windows, and those who were under the building were all showered down on them , all of it was cut by blood, but the scariest thing was on the third floor, he started shouting to call the guys so that at least someone responded, no one responded, i went down a little lower there, it was a terrible sight, and here the best man screams under zavalov, my best man, igorheka, i’m sorry,

what was i living in, but i was simply oppressed by more he answered it, and the ministry of emergency situations arrived. we all started to dig up the first one, they dug up lyosh volodya, one of our boys , we already got almost all of them, but the godfather of one, the second one was gone, and when they raised the stove, i understood that it was the best man. well, you don't want to believe, that is, he was already dead, there was only one we dug up the first one, he was crushed, and we put him there after the terrible tragedy. oleksiy took the children and wives of the dead igor and pavlo to kyiv, and so began the second part of his military life