[000:00:00;00] danish hour, and for the russians, the following appeals are heard from the loudspeakers: go home, where are you still waiting for your children and family ? bridge so that it would be very difficult for them to pass in slavutychi, russian snipers are starting to work here, they are near the bridge, they shoot two soldiers, our guys, er, velvet seryozha and sasha zatsepin, they went to scout just under the bridge and at that moment a sniper attack happened just then. sasha was killed immediately. sasha was killed immediately and seryoga was wounded. take out the killed and

rescue the wounded. senior combat medic volodymyr makarchuk leaves in his car. his car is also shot. seryozha was shot by velvet. they began to take them away from this city and at this time there is more sniper fire, as a result of which vova makarchuk himself was also wounded , and was taken to the ambulance and to the hospital itself. it's a pity he didn't make it alone without support, without weapons, without protection, without any bulletproof vest, he was a man, he was a warrior, he was a just person , he was so true and truthful, because he was so brave, i say, and well , he was a patriot, he was not able to help a person he wouldn't be able to. don't go. slavutych's defenders are asking to cover with artillery the russian military equipment that has accumulated here near

the bridge, but because of the proximity to residential areas , they are refusing. it was possible to somehow cope with the infantry, the russians meanwhile put forward another ultimatum, after which slavutych's defenders receive a command to withdraw from the tricity , a scout was deployed and there was a warning that if slavutych goes to street fighting , the city will be destroyed with the help of hailstones , such a command was given prohibited e- opening fire within the city in order to prevent deaths and casualties among the local population, and i reported to my commander, and around 5:00 p.m. on the 25th, i gave all unit commanders the command to withdraw

personally, at the moment when i, well, when i heard this order for the first two minutes, i couldn't agree with it. well, because i didn't want to, because i wanted to continue to defend the city to the last, somewhere in the depths of the rain, there was an understanding that i might not return to slavutych if they gave the e-e command to stand until the end, as they say, we would not go anywhere, introduced street fighting, the only thing we could achieve was to put the majority of the personnel against the security and provoke the e-e orcs to destroy the city for physical massacres among the civilian population in general, the phrase was like this, you can stay conditionally 180 heroes posthumously and that’s good, but 188 who will continue to uh support in other places in other directions where you will be more effective well, it will be better for me in the city , especially i had a child and a wife , well

what can be the feeling when you seem to have a weapon, seem to have the strength, but are forced to leave your family and it is not clear what will happen here , most of the soldiers of the guard company are leaving slavutych at this time , the mayor is driving in the direction of the city, i am very fast there he was returning to slavutych because they raised hai murphy ran away and the mayor is not here i had to go on the air without fail and tell the mayor everything on the spot and at the checkpoint from the other entrance to the city he met our soldiers who said that in us team to leave the city the night from march 25 to march 26, the mayor spends the evening of the 25th in dnipro, russian snipers are spotted on the roof of an unfinished hotel in the center of the city , a negative moment, an emotional moment, a difficult moment, you lose people with whom you lived, and i also hope that we win we are his enemy

we do not win in the evening, they made a decision about a peaceful protest tomorrow at 9:00 a.m. a peaceful protest, a meeting on the square, we all leave, we all leave, the central square of slavutych is the place chosen for the rally against the russian invaders , the main administrative building of the city, the city council, is located here the entire population of the city should gather. however , even the organizers of the rally do not believe in the probability of such a scenario on the morning of march 26, 2022. there were such conversations, something so famously pro-russian the city is not even pro-russian, well, there are not many roots, it has ties to russia in slavutych, it was scary for the first thing that they , that there will be not enough of us ukrainians, yellow-blue, beautiful , brave, there was a lot of excitement about whether someone with a russian flag would die. i say that honestly i thought that we were a pro-russian place. well, how can i honestly say that there are a lot of russians, and

i did not understand how we would react to this about slavutyka. many friends told me that , well, in such a situation, you are ready to meet with the russian flag, as they say that before the start of the war, it was a lot of people at one time were loyal to russia, this happened historically because many people came from russia to clean up the accident at the chernobyl nuclear power plant, well , if people were nostalgic for those times and when they were young and, well, you know, they asked to make sure that russia is not our enemy what do you need to agree on russians in slavutych and there have been many since the city was founded , here are the results of the 1989 census, there are more of them than ukrainians in 2001, the number of those who said russian in the nationality column already on 15% less, but this is still a third of the city's population. in the last local elections of 2020 , representatives of the pro-russian psg won

the largest number of votes, 26%. on the morning of march 26, even before the start of the rally, russian armored vehicles and a division of the national guard entered slavutych. they wanted to take kyiv in three days, they did not take the city of slavutych in three days. well, they managed to take it only on the third day. the night before entering the city, the russian military spends here in the forest near the tire of the center and gas stations stood here to change clothes many boxes were from clothes, most likely before the event, the city put itself in order, perhaps it is indicative, yes, it was necessary to do that they are so cool, because after three days of the introduction of hostilities, you yourself understand what condition they were in. russian military selectively search cottages around nine o'clock the occupiers come to the house of volodymyr klimov in the kyiv quarter, they were gathering for a rally

, the dog was usually so calm , he came out of the knu, looked at him sitting under the piven, he was in the russian form, but there was even a dog here i understand that this is a bastard, he waved at me, come here, come out, my father says, open the door, and i say, who is he? well , we came here, we need to see what i 'm saying, can you even hear me speak, in what language, and in what form do i speak? i always ordered in kryma, they accepted vernu yes, i heard, yes, how come you came here, he replied, well , with what? unfortunately, i understood how much the order is , the order passed. i'm going oleksandr demidov sosnivka is walking the dog and looks at me with such eyes, they see a camera

in my trunk and says don't come here, don't go, why are they here, and who are they, and right here, right next to that tree, a sniper is standing with a crosshair aimed at me , what rifle and looks at us at the same time i'm thinking what to do well, they're running, they're going to shoot me, i'm talking we're going to the rally with you, yes, well, they sent us myths because i knew what sniper was doing, i walked in such zigzag movements so that sniper it didn't hit me, it didn't hit me, i don't know how much it helped, but i came to the square , that's why i guess this method still works , the mayor is also trying to get to the rally in the morning of march 26. he's leaving dniprovskyi for slavutych. i am driving a lanos, not in my car, i picked up uh, near the prom base, uh, uncle. and in this place , three or four soldiers are coming out for a meeting

, then i already saw that there were at least two dozen of them there, and they pointed their weapons, they stopped here , they stopped and they tied my hands and this one the men who were with me were taken into the forest a little deeper, there were already six people standing with their hands tied, they were talking about the fact that we warned your military commissar and the mayor not to fight, we will not shoot , but they are here arranged a military party and at this moment i make a decision as i say, uh, there are no military men there, i am the mayor of the city, let’s give you your commander. at first, you

were so confused. team to collect weapons and leave the city, i stayed a little longer, changed into civilian clothes and i saw how they drove around the city, i had conflicting feelings, i wanted to impress them, but i understood that i had an order not to open fire within the city limits, that is, i wanted to accept , i wanted to, they were standing so close, probably meters at 30, the guys are doing well , in the absence of the mayor, his first deputy viktor shevchenko remains the head of the city.

dozens of townspeople who come to the square sing the national anthem and unfurl the blue-yellow flag, fate will smile on 30-40 people, that's the maximum that happened, that's all i saw, but then people started to gather from all sides, as many as you can get to the square from everywhere, because you see we are in the center of the city and this is the central square of the city and you can come here from all quarters. look how many people were on the square at the beginning of the rally. and this is already their number. literally in 10 minutes, i was very surprised when i stood there was such a small stage and i was already standing on this stage and i saw that , well, there are no free spaces in the square. well, there is no free space because people were already standing in the park and the people were not ending.

6,000 people, when we met with the commander of the georgian military, they were with drones and tablets, and i told him not to shoot in the city, there are no soldiers there, you see that peaceful people have gathered there and he says well yes, there are 500 showers on the square . oh yes, 500 is normal, but when i saw it how many of us were here, there were thousands. i think it was there in the 90s, when the station was still working . maybe there were concerts at which jackson , for example, patricia kaas, gathered such a large number of people that we did not understand the roof . so who hospitalized so many people and how the square shouted slavutychtsa

ukraine. i still have something like that because of it. well, it's hard to repeat. let's just say it's unique. even the slovaks who came to the rally were shocked by how much they rallied and how much they didn't expect the russian occupier here on to our land. i realized that even those who are from the russian world or remember what russians are like, they were too. i see them as a real indicator of how people relate to the occupation and it is beautiful . and believe me, many of them could not come. народны еще больше half the city gathered there for everyone for sure who came out that day to the square it was a sign of protest resistance we will not give up our home we will not give up our slavutych because he is only ours so many people are coming that there are not enough ukrainian flags we all have more than 100 small flags on sticks that we asked the people we asked and asked to give. give us something . we found it right away

. you distributed it to everyone. well, that is, it was instantaneous. our big flag from it is 100 m 100 by three, everyone tried to carry it to be near, but still it was not enough because there were very, very many people and when they started to unfurl our big hundred-meter flag, well, there was no way back, ukrainian paraphernalia is made even from of garbage bags olena zholdak brought them to the meeting from the store, we have a garbage sorting project and each garbage is packed in different bags when the blue and yellow bags and these blue-yellow colors immediately caught my eye bags, we took two rolls, four, i don't remember, we came to the square and then people started coming up and asking . well, there you are handing out flags and i say these are not flags

, they are bags for garbage, but if you need me , please take it so that it is a little at a time then when they realized that more of us were needed they started to cut them, er, i had scissors with me. we started to cut them so that they were a little shorter, and then i raised my head to look. well, there are already so many people around that it seems that the whole city has turned out, just us and this state. glory to ukraine glory to the russian military to the center of the city, their armored personnel carriers and a truck are parked near the palace of children and youth, hundreds of meters from the square, people are going to meet the occupiers, they saw that everything is coming out around the corner and people are coming out, people have already left

, that we are grenades and shots on top of fear there was no fear at all, then when already after the rally itself, i was scrolling through my head that anything could happen, because they were shooting there and over the heads of the younger ones, when they started shooting, i understand that they could not leave , but start shooting and to go on the attack, well, well, they threw a grenade at our feet, tears were flowing, coughing, it started, but there was a covid mask in the jacket, and at that time it was not completely finished

, everyone put on put on a mask and went on . they started for the first time, we saw that the car passed the first couple of meters back, she left and only later when we saw that this car started to go in the opposite direction, all this was a victory, already pride for our illustrious people, that no one was afraid and we had nothing, everyone was without weapons, there were no soldiers, and i understood that people are a great force of youth there were many, many men who work at the chernobyl nuclear power plant, there were many and they were walking

in front, the girls were already there, who was in front, who was behind, but there were also many women. did not wait for this video was shot by hryhoriy sokolyuk, he along with other men in the front rows went to the russian soldiers , it seems that somehow it was a little scary there. well, then when the people behind there is the support of this very morally helped, i am not alone with us. i was very scared for the youth there were 10 children and there was nothing more scary than them. okay, i have already lived. my life can be said to have already been lived. well

, i am already 60, so people who are in their 20s and 30s are starting to circle. this is our god, under the pressure of people, armored vehicles drive in reverse. the russian military one by one throw light stun grenades we shouted almost the whole rally shouted eh go home go to my mother go to my wife this rascal was not far from me, i don't want to call him anything else well, i looked into his eyes and thought well, you have to react somehow to the word mom, yes, he must feel something there, and i already understood then that if i had given the order to shoot not blanks, these

guys would have carried out the order. slavutych is not afraid , one of the grenades explodes near grigory, i did not burn my pants completely, well byly vyzheny was harvested there was a jacket on my leg, and i got up with point burns and got up . we went further there until the intersection. well, i have a colleague, an acquaintance of mine, who is a native and even behaves decently. and i asked, guys, why did you come here, and i was told that we were kicked out here, i was picked up at night and here

, can you see who kicked you out, who forcibly forced you to come here, and they are standing here , people are pointing machine guns at us, freedom ukraine , free ukraine at this intersection the russian convoy and protesters stop at this time, the russian military is returning the mayor to slavutych, we ran to the commander he says we see that there are people there, but we see that there are people with machine guns among them if we go, they probably won't be fired upon i say come on, i'm going first you behind me i will shoot at me you in armor which i am without and we sat in his tiger and went to the city and saw this number of people which well to tears just like and after we arrived he took

the megaphone in his hands and approached the people i understand that this is my only chance not to go back to those, but to remain human. well, when the father came out with christ, it was just a--a peak , then let them go with god if they can, if they can't , they can go at all, he said a phrase that the president then repeated, come out if you can to go if i say this my wife will divorce me i was probably ready that moment of death will remain right for me that's why i put on white robes and went there to try to do something good for my people this is the cross with which we go out on crusades well, yes it happened that we carried this cross to the procession that was against the invaders from those who came to us with the russian army to hold a rally that they have crosses on them, let them remove them because those people who carry crosses on themselves

are people who believe in such things they cannot do, these people have no right to call themselves christians, there is absolutely no way they serve the devil , they are absolutely convinced that they serve god, and this is the most terrible, in fact, this is a tragedy and it is a spiritual tragedy of the russian people and the russian military, i agree that they are not will be based in the city, but will continue to check houses for the presence of weapons, about 50,100 people with automatic weapons were driven out with the help of a flag and conversations so that they would go home. these people had such strength of spirit that even a friend was zero, those who were with weapons, people needed to hear that slavutych remains a ukrainian place, i was worried because i wasn't sure that it would last for a long time. i must have had thoughts then. well, it is unlikely that i will live in this place if it remains under occupation. well, the fact that they did not live in the city is the merit of people who

went to the rally, everyone understood that if they entered the city, they would wash, warm up, and that would be the queue . the russians allow them to take the body of the fallen soldier oleksandr zatsepin. the head of the emergency medical aid substation, tetyana kazarina, goes to look for him . she arrives at one of the addresses reported by the townspeople. of the russian military and began to say that there may be danger if there is a corpse there, he may be mined, and it honestly became so that they will annoy me a little, this is him, and i say , you came here to kill, and you are such a person, i say you don't be afraid, i'm talking, i won't tell anyone that you're so much, i'm talking before you come here to our land, you had to at least read the history of the country, the history of the city, the history of the city , i'm talking.

to all of you, he was silent, the truth is, he didn’t say anything to me closer to the evening of march 26. the mayor and father ioan will have another conversation with the russian military. you will coordinate everything with him, i say. well, i don’t know, he will come and i say , he is holding out his hand. well, i’m here now , the government is here , yes, they rushed me out. that people came out, why so many people came out, i say we don't want to see you here, this russian soldier says , well, we already came to you with peace and it was so annoying. they don't shoot come on i'll come to you with a weapon once, talk to the whole city, i'll say i've come from the world and i'll smile, and it was obvious that he was so hurt

, it's normal for him to be unpleasant. it was in general that they were convinced that they should be met here with flowers and a cow, they made remarks to me several times that how did i have the right to say such things to them on the evening of march 26, 2022 , the president of ukraine, volodymyr zelensky , will begin his traditional video address with words about slavutych, free slavutych, who will not be conquered by invaders today we were all together with you on your streets, in your protest, everyone together told the occupiers, go home while you can walk, the russian military will spend one more day here in the forest near slavutych, already on march 28, they will withdraw from these positions and flee together with all the occupying forces that invaded the north of ukraine, they were coming they are not there, just everything is empty, the trenches are made, those dugouts are all, but they are gone, they will leave garbage in the forest and such a message on

the walls of the building where they were based during the battles for slavutych, four more fighters will die four will be captured and one will be injured at the rally two people will be injured due to the explosion of russian grenades on april 3 units of the armed forces will enter slavutych and the city will be officially bought by deo and at the end of july 2022 the city council will rename all streets and blocks whose names are related to russia and march 26 is now known in slavutych as one of the most important days in the history of the city. the second day of the city can be counted accurately. indomitable city. it showed that it is not ready to put up with what i am proposing. russian

peace is a great feat for our city. it is a very great feat what the civilians did , understanding and seeing all the anger and hatred towards us, what kind of beasts they are and what they did in buch in irpen, that is a great feat because the people are not afraid for their own lives, they have no weapons, they are just civilians and they come out and they show their ukrainian position, this is the city of heroes, the city of those who do not give up. and, for sure, the city of those who now they know for sure that the main thing is vera i am russian unfortunately i am russian i have a ukrainian husband i have a son-in-law ukrainian i have grandchildren ukrainians here but i am russian and

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