[000:00:00;00] khmelnytskyi and he is a military man to the ends of his hair and you can really learn a lot from him, and this is a whole galaxy of military personnel, officers , soldiers, sergeants, including us. with whom, in fact, i am convinced that we will accomplish our tasks because, well, the backbone is formed, it is the backbone of real professionals , they are both military personnel and people who came from civilian life. some had previous military experience, some did not, but all of them have occupied their niches, let's talk, they can show their best qualities, it is obvious to me that as of now, we are ready to fulfill our tasks, can we say

that oleksandr sak, the leaders of the brigade, others ? i already have certain life experiences, i've seen a lot, and i'm not just talking about the army, that is, i lived abroad and studied abroad, worked abroad with ukrainians and foreigners from different continents, that is, a certain circle of sight i have horizons and talking with such officers, for example, as oleksandr sak, first of all, i am interested in listening to him , he can always prove something to me . what i did not know is that this is extraordinary , despite the fact that this is a young galaxy of officers, he he is a professional in his field, he follows him, it is very important when you follow

your commander, this is what actually allows him to perform his tasks and lead in the same way, because if you do not trust you, you are some kind of link that will not trust everything will fall apart . i am convinced that military service first of all, it is built, well, obviously, everyone knows about discipline, a sense of duty and so on, but first of all it is built on trust, because sometimes the time indicators are such that time props up . so only trust between specific people can save the situation in this case. i am convinced that i am not saying something too much trust, which is the key link, you mentioned discipline, i wanted to ask you what quite a lot of media-famous people are talking about, oleg sentsov and oleksandr polynskyi, and

brothers, and the same valery markus actually speaking, tell me if there are any problems specifically with discipline. is this stardom somehow manifested? i do not observe exactly any stellar part of these personalities. professionally, for example, the same oleg sentsov, he is in command later and he does it professionally. i have never heard or seen that there were any other a-how to say signals from him or did he have any complaints or anything else even he is professional the executor of his role and other people who may have been a blogger or an actor or some kind of famous person uh-uh everyone

fulfills their duty this is actually uh-uh something that hm should and i think characterizes our society no matter who you are you were who you are in principle in your essence. you go and fulfill that part of the duties entrusted to you that are necessary to achieve victory. and then everything works . finally, i would like to mention your literary activity. before the war, you published several books and novels, a collection of poems and children's book how is your military experience reflected in your work? do you take any notes or write something down, or maybe you have already written a great military novel? a great military novel has certainly not been written yet because there is a lot of work to be done, but the notes are obvious. i keep them, they are notes in my phone. wrote several columns , several of them were published, including abroad. well, of course, poetry is written . to be honest, not as often as i would like, but sometimes

it comes out in some evenings at night when you're not busy that's it, that's what i like is, well, i don't have a sense of pretense for a single word, for a single line. that is, everything is clear and in this sense. i would say that with many of us this transformation, this transformation of honesty, i like it. thank you for the conversation, i wish victory to stay alive whole and unscathed and howl many, many more books for sure thank you dmytro if we are going to fight, our children will protect their own , each embroidered symbol is a symbol of indomitability and

the revival of ukraine, we will heal our wounds let's decorate the scars with flowers, ukrainian destiny will bloom again like poppies in the field ukraine will embroider renaissance strong unbreakable free tell me honestly how we are all going through things right now so that it doesn't fit in the head that's why it happens that the chest feels like it's on fire and it feels like there's nothing to breathe, this body responds to heavy emotions sadness despair anger mental health program how do you tell how to cope with such feelings go to how are you.com to find out burning ukrainian books destroying cities and people putin complains the world for some reason i am sick of russian culture, the abolition of culture, the cashless of all living creativity, cultural russians threaten

the world with decline, and the collective smell will slowly fade. because without russian culture, you will stop at least something from yourself. education, the ukrainian language, with administration from all higher spheres , when he made physical education a weapon of mass destruction, we are stronger . that is why these people will become russians. do you agree to russify or is poison against the history of the question on may 26 at 11:00 pm in the national marathon the only news slavutych, a satellite city of the chernobyl nuclear power plant and the youngest city in ukraine during the ussr, it was built by a group of representatives of the eight union

republics 35 years later russians one of the builders of this city will come everywhere with the war first, slavutych, who will find himself in isolation , someone will supply bread products, and later we will be without electricity, and then russian columns will push into the city, which remained one of the few ukrainian islands in the middle in the occupied territory of the north, russian tanks will detain the military for three days, armed only with machine guns and wooden mines, and then the civilians will be driven out of the city by their attackers , more people will gather here in the central square than at the concerts of world stars, they will take ukrainian flags, they will drive out russian armored vehicles, as they are used to for him, ukrainian, and who speaks russian natively

, many people who were born in russia live in slavutych, and this is one of the paradoxes that we will tell you about and show unique footage of the battles for slavutych, the first days of the russian invasion of ukraine, the occupation forces are approaching kyiv and trying to lay siege to chernihiv . the battles for chernihiv were very loud. us we saw the glow that is happening in the direction of chernihiv slavutych is in the deep rear of the russians at a distance of more than 40 km from the front line, the city

is surrounded by forests and the border with belarus along the dnieper river has a single road to connect with on a large land to chernihiv, the village of mykhailo kotsyubynske, a key settlement on the way to chernihiv, was captured by russian troops on february 28. since then, slavutych has been isolated. if you look at the map, slavutych is still such a small island of freedom and ukrainian independence. there is no connection to chernihiv from kyiv , either, because there is an island with the organ and it was only possible to get to vyshhorod by tube a week after the beginning of the invasion. in stores , all products are being sold, the stores have become you could even buy an empty toothbrush, the last thing i remember was when i went to the union, there was nothing else except ice cream , the mivina was raked out for sure on sunday, so there was no more mivina for sunday, i say to the operator

, let's buy iryna here, but there is no need for eternal it was yesterday, people had money, all the atms were empty, all the smoke, no one needed the money, that is, you have communism, and to a certain extent yes, but, well, you probably do not respect such communism in our country, then the creation began, i will exchange a pack of cigarettes for diapers, part of the products are brought to slavutych from the surrounding villages, i remember that there were potatoes, there were mushrooms, there was milk , these are the products that i remembered for the rest of my life, and you don't eat some of these products anymore , mushrooms, of course, champignons, the ways of supplying humanitarian aid to the city by volunteers are reduced to forest roads bypassing the territory occupied by the russians, the partisan path , it is called through the forest, through pisky , a logistics warehouse in the city of ostersa, the closest is such

a medium-sized town from slavutych, where we could to reach this path, er, partisan, we are this and the road at night, the road on forest roads, roads, technical equipment, could pass a fairly small carrying capacity, at first, five-ton trucks could pass, then two -ton trucks. imagine supplying the city with such cars. well, how did my husband take it? i understood the phrase how is it not to eat enough, that is, some minimal food . of course, someone had some stocks , they began to give out these food sets, they were gone, well , the poor, the poor, there is a potato, two potatoes, cabbage, and maybe some kind of canned food.

were there when we brought 20 tons of chicken legs there, remember those times applications from people to issue food kits are accepted by the city call center, thanks to this, it is possible to calculate the approximate number of inhabitants of slavutych. at the beginning of march 2022 , about 15,000. i think there were a little less because someone called and said that he had a family of three , he was left alone, but that's normal, well, people survived, then the worst situation in slavutych was also with bread. the fact is that the city did not have its own working bakery and stocks of flour, grain the surrounding villages and milled it, and this is what the bread looked like and what size it was with the first trial batch that you baked at one of the enterprises. it was bread in slavutytskyi, which was made from the grain that we could find in the surrounding settlements . the first bread was a little bit of with sand, the grain that we managed to find was

not enough. maybe it was cleaned, if you count. it was probably the 10th grade of flour from which it was baked, but it was the tastiest bread in our life. 100% olena zholdak, manager of one of the shops that i baked bread for slavutych at that time, there was no regular flour , and the first one was so dark, dark gray, coarse for animals , the first bread it was like some kind of hard er ovens, there was no yeast or there was very little of it in ours there was beer and the girls-cooks decided to try to make sourdough on beer, there was not even enough bread of this kind, it was given out to the townspeople using coupons, for example , the coupon maintenance of bread in one of the shops that baked it, a family of up to three people had the right to buy one such bread once a

four days but when there is no bread for four days, it's not the same and you look closely at whether it's tasty or not, it's there because for three people one depth i lost weight by 20-30 kg then without bread yes, you can't say that bread is generally tasty or not it was delicious just bread it was a small victory for slavutych from march 9 to march 14 slavutych survived a six -day blackout on march 9 the russian military damaged the electricity supply line to the chornobyl npp that fed the city it was built in a modern way we don't have gas and it 's completely unpredictable that we have gas in houses that is, i immediately remembered the pardo festivals , which we had far before 2000, first of all, the island was introduced badly , not like us, mykhailo kotsiubynskyi does not

pressurize us, they do not come with automatic weapons, people with automatic weapons are moving towards slavutych on march 20 at nine o'clock days before the russian troops will make their first gesture of goodwill and flee from the chernihiv, kyiv and sumy regions. on march 21, the russian military will stand in a pack in the village on the way to slavutych. the people put forward the equipment, they say about 30 units, they say there are also those games and tanks, uh, and the berets say they are going in the direction of pakul , clearing the surrounding villages , the russian troops will go further, for example, in dniprovsk , they will rob the department of the border guard , the russian column will stand at this intersection , the road to the right leads to the checkpoint -passing point slavutych and the bridge blown up by border guards on the first day of the invasion, the road to the left leads to chernihiv, and the road behind me is the road to

the isolated but not yet occupied slavutych on on the map at that time the whole zone was shown in damn red, and slavutych remained green following the movement of the russian column, fighters against the protection of the local military commissariat watched from a height before entering slavutych , the clearing around the village lasted for almost three days, and then the column already returned to slavutych again they stood at 14 km for almost a day and only after that moved towards slavutych , why do the russian troops decide to go to slavutych, in fact, in the opposite direction from the direction of the main attacks on chernigov and incredibly, kiev was already thinking about a gesture of goodwill in march when it did not call for negotiations. there we heard that we just want to go to belarus. my version of basov is that we remained such a city

. statistically, there are 25,000. in fact, there are 15, but the city is in the occupied territory, but not under their control, and i think that they had the task of recording that you are in slavutych, all this territory is completely under our control, taking into account the gallows that was given near chernihiv , near kyiv , the command of the occupying forces made a decision to withdraw from kyivska from chernihivska, the city of slavutych, which was isolated here for a certain time. but despite this, roadblocks were set up, the service of the units against the security was carried out. maybe they were afraid that, er , a blow could be made to the flank or to the table. slavutych at that time was protected by the security company of the local military commissariat and representatives of the voluntary formation of the territorial community in total. these are about 200 people, essentially all volunteers because of the lions. as of february 24 , there were only four soldiers in the city, because the local

part of the national guard even before the invasion two officers and two soldiers, one of whom was a woman, were taken to the chernobyl zone. on february 24, up to 5 hundred reservists and volunteers came to the local military committee. there were a lot of reservists and volunteers , but there were no weapons at all. because our weapons of our guard company were in the second place, they brought weapons already at night, unfortunately there were 160 pain-killing kalashnikov assault rifles and two stores of ammunition for each assault rifle, a couple of rpg-7s and his own horns, that’s all, and there was also one or two of them, he was the only one there, the problem is that there was a dead battery. that’s why we there was something there to use them. maybe a couple of armored vehicles and old helmets were soviet, well, a check for 20, maybe two flies or three flies , in principle, which without uh, are helpless for tanks on the road to slavutych, they set up two

checkpoints without having heavy equipment and enough weapons the defenders of the city are resorting to tricks to simulate the mass that some non-military large groups are located here because drones were flying every night and every day we are being followed by constant intelligence as if there is such a crazy specific unit here so that they just don't come here we went here, i mean, we even made mock-mines. we knocked them down from wood, painted them green in camouflage, scattered the policy in the direction of slavutych, mykhailo says , the battalion tactical group of russian troops went. of the underachievers who were affected by let's say so from eh eh in the battles near kiev near chernihiv in the area of ​​yagidnogo, under the leadership of the russian guard , they were assembled by the russian guard unit, which

mykhailo says is most likely the xxi separate the brigade of operational assignment and the moscow sofry from all brigades took part in the suppression of protests in tbilisi, vilnius and the nagorno-karabakh conflict back in the times of the ussr, as well as two chechen wars. the tuvans are the 55th brigade, whose fighters tortured and mocked ukrainians. a reinforced company-tactical group is going to storm and clear slavutych. it's about 400 people , six tanks, two bmps - that's for sure, we saw uh, 4 or 5 tigers and we saw more than five tented cars fought against of the regular army fought against tanks against mortars, that is, the forces were completely different, completely different here, even

if you can’t compare, if you say how many chances we had. roadblock at the turn to the city and stopped there on march 23 , 2022 , a local volunteer goes from slavutych to dniprovskyi to give medicine to insulin-dependent people, upon returning home he is stopped by the russian military and released under one condition he must issue an ultimatum to the defenders of slavutych in case they do not fulfill it by 3 p.m. that's why i said 3:00 p.m. we are still standing together, i was afraid, with the company commander

, serhiy leonidich shershen, we are talking , i say 3:00 p.m. , what is going on? by time they will be in their own way in russian, there will be nothing left for us 15:23 as i remember now, it was just the first arrival and here i hear the whistle, the first boom, the mortar began to work , the first 30 or so volleys were fired at the checkpoint, they did not open , they were half an hour late, yes, those nearby the second roadblock was removed by the commander of the detachment denys on march 24, the day after the ultimatum, the russians intensify the shelling of

this block constantly, nine of us and the platoon commander. this was the extreme point between the enemy and us, we could not answer them we didn't have a mortar to answer them, they continued let's say so, eat their mines, the boat somehow yes, i shoot, i understand. if we surrender now, it will be a message to others that it is necessary to surrender, that this one , unfortunately, does not have the opportunity to do this, education does not allow along the road, somewhere around 200 days, i lay down in front of a checkpoint, and by the time pavlo postu was already working, tanks were already working, two tanks were on two lanes and they were making their way one by one, so, so , our wooden scythes was my first thought when i

was lying in the trench, eh, it means either or immediately to for you, or well, so that they don’t suffer, yes, or secondly, so that the pine tree doesn’t fall, we considered ourselves the defenders of our city because it’s our city, but we came here and understood that we might not go back, i even called my parents and said, well, i said goodbye i didn't say i just said i love you and hung up just in time literally a couple of minutes before the shelling, well, i considered myself a suicide bomber because i somehow felt that i could die at any moment don't be afraid, it was all coming here, the roadblock was just, well, it was destroyed well, we just didn't have it there there was a booth where the boys were warming themselves. at night, it just burned. the first wound at the checkpoint was received by andrii somewhere 1 m 15 cm. there was an explosion, a bright

flash of understanding that something was wrong, it was already beginning to swell. and when i stretched out my leg, it was clear that there was more than one wound more than one piece of shrapnel passed through andrija, they are evacuating with fellow russians, they continue shelling and are approaching the roadblock, they did so that no one but this one did not go straight to the aboom , did not run with a click, hooray, they worked, i can tell you from the book what they did en masse arto shelling, then the snipers killed everything en masse. and at that time, i'm sure there was a group that was supposed to make contact with us. slavutych's defenders are retreating to the roadblock that is closer to the city, this is a change of position. i know of course whether it was hit or not. well, but for fear , the defenders of the city are asking for artillery support from

the operational command of the north. when they started to pour mortars on us, we had designated places, that is, the coordinates of these places. just then a tank was advancing, i was driving more and more into the tiger, there were a few more units of equipment eh and that's where we indicated the coordinates when they were located between the first and second roadblock , that's when the impression was made that at that time the only weapon that could reach slavutych was a tactical missile complex, point thanks to the point. we got slavutych when the convoy was going . we made an impression on the colony twice, and the special squad that reached slavutych was demoralized. the knocking out of one tank is not clear, there was a tiger standing on the side of the road, whether it was knocked out or not, and it was clear that there were many foxtrots or 300th left on the side, there were more than a dozen

, in principle, it is possible to post a portrait of bandera well, according to the local people , the local is in the pack, then we contacted each other they said that the cars that were driving were sanitary, that the yusheka was dripping, that the russian troops were continuing to fire at the second checkpoint. well, to be honest, they thought , well, i'll say it rudely, we already made the decision to leave the checkpoints, uh, it didn't happen the ability to hold on under such fierce fire, it was decided by the team to withdraw to slavutych ukrainian military personnel are withdrawing to the city and are gathering here under the bridge on the outskirts of slavutych, the fighter does not return from the battle where fg serhiy sydorenko went and took it, he says i am not here , a local hunter i do not know this here area i will go - he says and blow up this mortar , he was dissuaded from doing so, but he was such a damn self-confident person and i understand that he

was captured and then shot and buried at the first checkpoint by one of the soldiers runs up to us and says sydorenko seryoga, he didn't answer his phone, just then this sydorenko calls, but it's not him who picks up the call , and in a russian voice he starts asking а что where are you, eh? we all then understood that, unfortunately , seryoga was either in captivity or died on march 24. the mayor took his family out of slavutych. this was my most vulnerable place . when my family was with you, you were once my daughter, who was two years old on the 24th. she was exactly two years old father's birthday took the child out of suspicion it was really easy for me well, for some reason the emotion was like that, well, i'm free, everything well, what can happen to me, well, they'll be kidnapped, well, to the basement

, yes, there can be such a story, well, what, well, fate is like this, we'll all die in the end for some reason there was such an emotion, and in the evening of the same day, the russians capture both checkpoints and come close to the city, if you walk through the forest for 300-400 meters and the railway is behind the railway , the city is already a city, each checkpoint is a day that slavuty that the guard company gave for that in order to make it impossible for the enemy to enter the city. the next day, march 25, a 24-hour curfew is announced in slavutych , and the following appeals are heard for russians and ill-wishers: русский корпаль we didn't call you vanya, he's coming back home, where your children and family are waiting for you