[000:00:17;00] ruslan ponyzyorov major, commander of the engineering and sapper support group of the 80th separate amphibious assault brigade , has been protecting ukraine from russian aggression for 48 years since 2014. currently, a group of sappers under the command of ruslan panazyorov is participating in combat operations in the bakhmut region, with a hundred units of detonated enemy equipment on its account and thousands of destroyed occupiers for personal courage shown during combat missions ruslan ponaziorov was awarded a number of military and

state awards congratulations mr. ruslana you that serviceman who was one of the first to take up the fight against the a-a invaders of the occupiers and took part in the events that unfolded near the city of sloviansk , do you remember those events, although it has been 9 years, the first collision was during the march er, when we were ambushed, our column was going to guard the artillery and in the forest massif between dolongenki and slavyansky, at the 666th kilometer, we were ambushed, and then we entered the battle for the first time, the first time we saw the battle, well, everyone was well, let's say so shocked on the one hand and on the other what

slipped past this area and did not suffer losses and began to carry out the task, well, the nature of the introduction of hostilities was like, well, they were like groups of derga. let's put it this way. they knew how to act . they knew how to position themselves, how to disguise them . well, it was difficult to detect them when we already conducted sweeps of their camps that they were leaving. well, for example, there was a lot of news for me. how can you equip a camp in the forest so that it is

not seen for sure? to happen imagine what is happening here how it is happening and with whom it is we it is in arcs this is all achieved a group of sappers went to perform the task were returning back and came under artillery fire near the car on the move a shell exploded one serviceman one serviceman tore off an arm and a leg well the car is a jeep there son will not turn around, all the rest are contused, the driver added gas as he was driving, as if he was starting to leave the firing zone, but this is a serviceman. he died from their blood, that is, because they

could not help him because they were there they also could not, let's say, adequately assess the situation, and those 3 minutes that they were leaving the shelling zone took his life, and on february 24, we met in mykolaiv oblast at the training ground, our units from the e-e immediately rushed to the antoniv bridge to close and break through to nova kakhovka and there already suffered such first losses in the first 3-4 days, when there was such confusion, when the planes were flying, their rockets were flying, we could not do anything to

them. the locals started with their weapons in the hands of their hunters to help us guide their units to coordinates mykolaiv oblast, part of kherson oblast, everyone understood that we might not be using the weapons that we had available , they could write out voznesensk, where we

destroyed the bridges, held the enemy, let’s say so, hid him maneuver let him go there where do we need him to get there, there was bastanskaya grass, we didn’t have these jeeps then, they came in a kamaz, they almost killed us there because they thought we were the enemy , well, i’m coming to the edge of that village . guys, where are your positions? here's where you need to dodge. we don't know your positions. you can't see anything. 100 m . you need to go a little bit to get out of the hollow. you're at a height. well, i showed them where to put a machine gunner, where to put a round. where to put grenade

launchers. there are trenches, i say because the boys are on it's already morning, i'm already thinking the enemy wants to counterattack well, i and my guys mined a barrier on the road there, and on the second day early , the enemy launched a counterattack with his armored personnel carrier and two kamaz were destroyed on our mine hose by mr. ruslan, tragic things happen in war of course, there are also curious situations perhaps you can remember one or the other , they happen all the time, well , one such one was mined in one area. i'm standing on us, i'm walking behind me, there are two more sopers with changes, i'm changing, and he stops

. well, i understand that he saw us at a distance of 300 m . well, the soldiers. well, that's all, the pipe guy lies down calmly . mina waves to him, says that everything is okay, he stands up, turns to the side, turns around and leaves. well, if we had dispersed, started running and walking, he would have understood that we were ukrainian servicemen

, he would have accepted us as his own. you may have seen this in indian films as an american disruption wave, and during these flights, this is how we flew, the first shot, then we flew , bah, my finger stood up, the second shot, and the soldier was closer, well, he throws him on my back and we fly, he is sleeping, he is sitting, and i i think it's my fault that the balloon fell on my back. well, we're all lying burned. well, i'm going to talk a lot because i was wearing musa's gloves. i was so burned. well, one side of the right side was on fire, and then there was still light. without anesthesia just like that, somewhere without anything, how many injuries do you have in general? well, i will not cover contusions for injuries

, yes, there were two such cases, well , curious, in general. i start to go around there, it gets blown up from the side, the third one there wants to go around and also gets blown up, and that's where all their attack stops. and why did they do it like that , they didn't do it like that? i don't know . well, according to logic, it's a minefield. because now they are doing twelve, they are demining all anti-personnel mini fields with their bodies. well, they wanted to demine with their tanks along the way, the next

question is: how do you think our army transformed during , well, until february 24, we will definitely take you , it was overgrown with combat experience, it was pumped for 6 minutes of mobilization, we prepared, let's say yes, for such a reserve of these mobilizations, which at any moment could be under arms, which happened at the beginning of the full-scale second , they gained a lot of combat experience and we had a lot of various training of the international military, i'm already afraid of what you're doing, you're setting yourself a stopwatch, come on, we'll have to demine a lot, i think we won't be able to demine on our own , the armed forces won't be able to demine all these areas that are currently mined, it will be necessary

to ask for the help of the whole world, the territory is very large, it is mined it is probably you who do not realize how much i would advise these people who live here and who have been through all these hostilities not to go to untested fields and go to different places for mushrooms because it's mined, it's hard to imagine what kind of objects a rocket can't destroy, you need a lot of explosives to, er, to

destroy it, you need a lot of explosives , it's a monolithic reinforced concrete structure. assessment, these people, all the commanders who gave such an order and these military personnel who carried it out and put it into effect, are war criminals who committed a great man-made catastrophe, not only for ukraine, but for the whole world, mr. ruslan. how do you see it? we need our victory prepare more reserves, accumulate more equipment and our victory will be so devastating for the enemy and we will drive out this territory

he has no chance let's say so and that's why we received official evidence that we have long been part of the civilized european world ukraine has become a candidate for joining the eu and this is only the first , albeit important, step towards full membership in the european union, so as not to remain in place, we are confidently moving towards the goal of establishing the rule of law through the total cleansing of the judicial system, there are no more untouchables reducing the influence of oligarchs, an effective anti-corruption program, the effectiveness of anti-corruption

bodies has been recognized by the world, effective financial monitoring, the prevention of money laundering, the strengthening of human rights and freedoms, conditions for the development of independent media, and dozens more laws that implement the principles of the european union, there is still a lot of work to be done, and ukraine will pass this way because we are creating a decent future for our children ukraine - this is europe hello, i'm so exhausted, i hardly sleep, i don't know where you can turn for help, i think

i'll have to tell you again and worry about everything maybe it's my fault, but support is important. i need time. i hug you. they were already in mykolaiv, guys. i'm going in one direction. my whole army says no, they believed in me. there were tears when you were at the front. i understand for myself that it is very important to keep mykolaiv and chornobayivka. a miracle has begun, you'll get there, you'll slip by, you won't make it, sorry, it's not a week, it's a war of the special services and a ukrainian massage, a big slap from the russian federation, they went straight to the training ground, and

he went straight to the training ground, he said no. when we win, we have to be in everything self-sufficient roman kostenko, people's deputy, colonel of the sbu, the center of special operations, and the military call sign commanded the units in the 79th airborne brigade since 2014. he has been participating in military operations at the front. the cyborg has conducted a number of special operations, which are now under the seal. in 2019, he was secretly elected to the verkhovna rada. since the beginning of the full-scale invasion combines parliamentary work with participation in hostilities , in particular in the defense of mykolaiv, liberated temporarily occupied territories in the south in the mykolaiv and kherson oblasts roman, i congratulate you and i want to start with the main thing to determine your status. i am an active colonel, a military serviceman, but

in military uniform to perform the duties of a people's deputy. and how do you combine the secretary of the national security committee and a military serviceman? it seems to me that you are no longer on the front lines, there is no need to combine them, my main task is as a people's deputy, but since the 19th year i have exclusively worked as a people 's deputy in the national security sector, but when the war started, many people thought , including me, that i probably won't have to to fulfill the duties of a people's deputy and i, as a military serviceman, could not stand still. i took a machine gun, got everything in my car here in kyiv and went to dmytro marchenko in mykolaiv, because i myself come from the kherson region, studied in odesa, and for a long time served in to the landing brigade and to the alphas in mykolaiv, that's why the south is my motherland, especially at that moment

. troops from the kherson region came very quickly and occupied my native village, so i decided to take up arms and go to fight. well, that's what happened my native village is charming, charming. it’s a beautiful name, and it was occupied, yes, it was occupied by the enemy from the very first days . they lived there and were constantly in good areas, and directly in my house there. i managed to get my parents out in a few days already after the occupation and they constantly changed and lived, and when we liberated my village, i came there . of course, the house was mutilated and the windows were broken, everything was shot inside, everything was stolen from there, but the house itself is in place, so we will rebuild it, and how important it is to stay unemotional, neutral, or vice versa, it helps when this is your small homeland. doctors, for example, are forbidden to operate

on their relatives because you had emotions when you were liberating your land. we went in with the guys from the defense forces with the unit with which i take part in the hostilities, we went in and we were practically the first to enter the village there, as always , the tanks came, then we went there , well, practically together, and when you go on your own in your native land, you are greeted by the people you grew up with. this is a small village, there were 300 people there, there were 400, and when you go there , everyone greets you. and you know what was important, that only our people went in and the people gathered . when i was going home, i came to my house there i don't know, half of the force gathered and raked out the trash, put things in order, i well, then maybe there is a video where we met, that's all, i asked them a question and what are you doing here at all well

, look, you didn't know that we would come today , they say yes, we knew that you are all equal come back, they lived here, that's why we wanted you to come, and it's clean here . they saw it all the time on facebook, in the mass media, i said that we would come. we will come soon , and they were waiting. it's not just that you said it, and they waited, they believed you . and here we are. well, you know it from emotions. it's like you've lived all your life for this, in order to free the place where you grew up. everyone there

knows you, where you know everything, and there you come there and you understand that they are free, these people are , well, this cool, such a story about emotions, what am i? once made me think that sometimes, no matter what, a mother should have a cold mind and work according to the algorithm that you were taught during twenty to 20 years of service when we were going to liberate the village. we left point n and together with the defense forces moved in the direction of the settlement of boryslav and in front of my village charivna there is a silochkalové he he a small one also about the same as the charming one and here we were, a group of about 10 cars there, drove there, had a look, chatted with the local residents we looked there to see how it was broken. well, we walked there a little bit, we saw that it was freed and the columns went forward, and i am from there. i understand that there are two roads to charivna

, one is an asphalt road to the ford, and the other is, well, how does a local resident understand such cobblestones? now more troops and the enemy will go on the asphalt, 100% understanding that we will advance exactly and go on this road, he is replacing there, that's why i make a decision. i think i will go on the road that i have known since childhood. this is burkivka, it is not the main one , but we will go there and we start to drive we arrived about a kilometer along this road and met a bmw x5 standing there, there were military personnel with an antenna, these are guys who, uh, were monitoring the situation with eagles with this unmanned aerial vehicle, it was the enemy, and they stopped us and they said look further, you can’t go further mines and i have i think i'm a sapper. well, who's going to dig a hole in order to insert a mine

? well, right next to us. yes, we went and looked at the mine. we tried to pull it out, but they rammed it hard. we will still go on the same road. when i was going to the asphalt for the first time, at that moment we heard several explosions. well, the most interesting thing is that these guys arrived 40 minutes before we were going there. if they had not come there , everything would have been different, maybe there were losses in at that moment, there were explosions, we were going back, we met people who asked where the paramedics were because there were explosions on the mines , they mined this area very much, when we were returning, i heard a big explosion exactly in the place where we were going first when i where i was going to go first time when we got there, we saw cars blown up by mines, it turns out that the asphalt was running and the enemy directly broke through the asphalt with an excavator and laid it there. i don't know dozens, it seemed to me hundreds of mines and 152 shells in the mix, and

such a minefield is called a well, and there are such pieces every 100 m five, but in order to reduce the speed of movement of our troops and fighters, realizing that you will not come this way, there was a nearby road with a full field, and here they went, and it turns out that the first cars that drove behind were gasoline, there was a lawn such a gas-53 with with barrels of fuel and this lawn is being blown up the first ones passed and there everything was done in such a way that the first cars were also blown up there were guys killed and we stopped and then began to understand and this is literally me like this , they stopped me like this, i see like this, my village, this is it that is, i went there when i was nine months old, and there are these wells that are standing, i have to go through them . i understand that i can just jump over and go there on foot, but we have wounded people here, we have already lost people here, and this simply does not allow me

to get there like that. that's why i talked about emotions i came to the village, we met, i fell out of my heart that i am what i liberated mine , now we will continue to liberate all other territories here information liberated kherson in parallel berislav in parallel liberated everything there is such a short-lived victory euphoria that everyone is fighting but and then in a day or two for myself, as a soldier, i began to analyze what i was driving on those roads, if i wasn't driving to my home , i wouldn't be driving so safely in my place . sappers went ahead, they looked through every pebble. well, maybe i wasn't there for 5 or 6 hours drove this road and looked at every pebble in the same way, and i asked myself the question: would i go on this road, what a detour field and all my military bats, and all my things , how i don’t know the son of that village and my parents, he says i would probably go and i ask myself these emotions when you liberate your

territory and they are often not needed in war, but when you are near home it is very difficult to exclude them . that is why it has already happened as it happened to us. the village hung a flag on the highest point on the tower in my village the first minutes of february 24, when you learned about the full-scale invasion, how quickly did you decide to go to mykolaiv, where were you at that time and how did you quickly understand who are you calling, how are you going to me a colleague called and said that it had started and literally a couple of minutes had passed there, i lived near zhulyan and i already heard how a rocket had arrived there, it is clear that if the invasion had started, it would start to bombard

my friends there, who were the commanders, who on kherson oblast who's where, then there's a deputy's chat we understood, we accepted the state of emergency the day before , and the presidential decree was approved. in order to vote on martial law, we gathered in the committee and talked about what to do next . well, it is clear that what to do is to accept martial law, and then we take up arms and go and tell them to fight off this aggression. you came in a few days. i understood. i need i need some kind of unit. i got a submachine gun from us. they gave them out. i got a submachine gun and understood that, well, we were gathered there first. on the first day, we took grenade launchers. we will be here, but i still understood what this is. well, if you don't have some

unit about unity when there is no senior when there is no discipline it is something like that well it will not be a system it will not be effective i understand as i also have experience i need some kind of system to join something more systematic in order to help i for i understand that it is very important to keep mykolaiv, i am watching marchenko writes and i am already here , i say okay, i got stuck in the shelter fund and in the return alive fund, and i also called serhiy and called taras, for some reason i say that guys i am going in one direction because already i see him coming in and marchenko told me that look, the gate will close soon. therefore, if you have time, you will slip through, you won't have time . well, excuse me, give me everything you have and they are all for me. i came to the shelter, they have thermal imaging cameras, fairy tales, no night lights for the main thing, what is needed, as well and to taras, i want to say that then there were no documents, no deeds, if what they are being told there for now, look what and where are your

deeds, where did it give you come and just everyone understood that you were on you on you on you you loaded this car and i also went to hand it over to the 79th brigade. i handed it over to other units of the terroboros. they handed it all out. there were no acts. there was no enemy. here are the acts about what could be done. there are problems there because of that, not because of me, but they gave out a lot like that when