[000:00:00;00] you drive by car, there is no one on the street, no cars, no people, no one at all, and when we drove in, the enemy shelling just started , the enemy artillery shelling, in the first days the shelling was more colossal, the city was just buzzing, everything was going crazy, siren after siren, siren after siren, the main task was to eliminate this threat and throw the enemy away from the immediate range , the maximum, in order to, well, ensure a safe life for the people of kharkiv, we realized that there were certain holes in the enemy's defense, after we regrouped, as we took up the defense a decision was made, together with trakyn

, respectively, together with... well, with all volunteer units , an operation was developed, and accordingly, we began an assault operation, first on the left flank, we also began to quietly knock out, knock out, carried out colossal measures of counterbattery fighting. oh, look where it flew, the enemy began to pull back that artery, the people felt, they feel, that it is already easier, began to appear on the streets, already looking around, hiding, began to appear on the streets, then we continued to push back slowly,

assault actions itself, from the third attempt, we took a malogan, smashed, in my opinion, 200 there . well, in general, they smashed them normally, they ran away, they dropped everything, it was possible to connect friends, we have a lot of friends, that was at the time, well, they eavesdrop friends, the kharkiv-1 battalion, ordinary guys, policemen who also held weapons on a voluntary basis, these were guys, hurivians, who simply came and said, we want to work with you, when this is the first success, when they realized that it is possible they were running, then it was impossible to stop them, the 92nd was the base, it was midnight yes, yes, east, and west approached 93, it was very, but then, when 93 approached, it generally became calmer, forward movement began, and in almost one week we liberated the right part of kharkiv, well,

we took kharkiv, approximately. 15 prisoners are welcome in kharkov, they are former children, former ukrainians, originally from matiyivka , yasinovat, donetsk, and on average from 18 to 20 years old, they are students who were called up in early february, but they also say that in them... for the grandfather of ukraine that they drive through ukraine to rest abroad, that they are visiting kyiv, that they were moving freely before this beginning, it was moving freely, through our territory, and now they were shooting with weapons, at that time, i already had one dead person, vanya stavnichuk, for this populated point, there was a very high motivation, a very high desire to push

the enemy away from the city borders, the further... i push the enemy a kilometer, two, or three away, the less they will work in the residential areas where my kharkiv residents live, our counterattack, i i remember, i remember him very much, and it is an unforgettable emotion when they, as you know, a chess puzzle, everything, everything, everything fell into them, and drove them away from the border with the city of kharkiv. and you know this, everyone sighed like that, i definitely, i sighed, i understood that we would be shelled, but they would no longer be shelled with artillery, and that was the most important thing then, it became a little easier for the people, for the first time in two months, some people

came out of metropolitan, which was used as the main shelter. the first wave of return was after the first counterattack. the first ones have already appeared. here it is possible to say that a cafe is open, somewhere you can drink coffee, it is already somewhere . well, in may, people began to return, people began to understand that the enemy was pushed back from the city to some distance, which is already at least , although that the tanks and barrel artillery would not reach the city, when they were leaving the city, i visited in may on may 5, there were already traffic jams, it was impossible to get to the place of the traffic jam, i could not leave during the day, the traffic jams, i think, nothing happened, it was nice, that the city began to glow

with lights, they drove calmly, they did not drive and thought, that they would be here for a while, they did not turn around in the company battle columns, they just drove in one column and that was it, and thought that they would enter, stand in the city and everything would be fine, you see, they were so sure, having received kharkiv as an outpost, that further possibilities were possible various political campaigns, stories that this is the capital of the real ukraine, and everything is not real, everything is pro-western, the armed forces stopped the column there with omon, and there were sticks and shields in the kamazs, well, where were they going, they thought that everyone

will raise their hands and meet with with flowers, well, this did not happen, the enemy underestimated us, he thought that now he will come in a parade march, in columns, and we will meet us. with flowers and music, they were met with a roaring fire and bottles with hot mixtures. our army is a heroic army, a lot of our boys and girls died, unfortunately, but they stopped it, and i want to say that i have never seen such courage, such heroism, and the soldiers of the defense, i remember, boys, girls, and people of the older generation, who stood in queues to receive weapons, practically

the city was defended by the people of kharkiv and residents of the kharkiv region, so everyone fought for their home, everyone fought for their family, everyone fought for their children, their mothers, their wives, so we had something to fight for, this was the main factor... we persevered, i finished school there, and for me, of course, it was important, it was important that kharkiv was liberated, the school is located in the shevchenkiv district, by the way, i think so, it was a matter of his honor to drive the russians away from our city. yes, and

it's school, yes, i'm thankful for many things. the people of kharkiv love their city, so much so that they actually believe that it is with such a ukrainian, such a sense of good ownership somewhere, and they were not asked, and they came to them with weapons and began to bombard the city, which is the main thing, they started inflict fire damage, and then everything ended, pro-russian, every fourth person had a relative in the russian federation, or an acquaintance, or some friends, now they are weak, because no one communicates with anyone, they said that kharkiv is such a pro-russian city, but no, kharkiv

was, is and will be a ukrainian city. misery the city of heron, kharkiv, that's it, this is the main thing, that's how to use it, thank you. goloviska, thank you to the head of the region, thank you, thank you to everyone present, it is an honor for me to reward and thank each of you for that. the victory you carry every day, for the independence you secure and

for the sovereignty you defend, chevorons bringing victory closer, and another year in which we do not celebrate, but choose our independence. and another day when they try to deprive us of the right to be ourselves, and another fleeting moment of a terrible war that continues centuries, but the whole world has already been convinced that our independence should not be stolen, drowned , burned, shot, and the greater our... hatred, the stronger our

independence, the closer our victory. we prove independence every day. our dear defenders. we all, we all thank you, for your courage, for my marriage, for your infamy. thank you for the opportunity to live in the best country in the world, for the fact that my children can still study in a ukrainian-language school. thank you for your hard work. over important mission. thank you for putting the future of the country on the line higher than his own life, for a peaceful future. thank you for the executions, thank you for your service , it's normal to be afraid, and to admit your fear is brave, we need brave people, update the data in

tsk. courage conquers fear. we raise the ukrainian flag.

the town of palafia of the kharkiv region took control over the liberated village of bolokhiv. the vertebral column is again under the ukrainian flag. it was a distracting blow. and with insignificant forces, that’s how it was considered, but i had the feeling that this direction is very promising in terms of its development, in terms of the destruction of the enemy and the destruction of the entire system of his defense in this region, there was an idea to conduct such an operation back in april, when with the same operational team under the command of the commander, we worked out

the issue of the liberated part of the kharkiv region, i was considering our further actions even during the first operation precisely in the district of balaklia, and there it was clear that the enemy had a weak city, we planned much less, as it turned out, initially the intention of the operation, well, in the volume that i own, it was blocking the raisin, balaklia was determined by one of the tasks , because there was a storage base there, a large arsenal, which stored a sufficient amount of armed ammunition in peacetime, there were protected warehouses, the railway track just allowed to ensure its offensive. group, of course, the enemy also used it to support its troops, this was also one of the tasks of this operation, at that time a powerful

enemy group, about 12 battle tactical groups of the enemy, was located in the izyuma district, and there were constant assaults on the enemy in the direction from there. in in the direction of the border of the kharkiv and donetsk regions, any fortress has its sweet spots, but such a sweet spot was precisely the construction of the defense, north of balaklia, the junction between the two battalions, and it was at this junction that our blow was delivered. the task of this front edge was to go to the river, to take it. it was one of the main ones, it is a logistics center and a route center that allowed the enemy to be routed from north to south going to izyum, from kupyansk going to balakleya, and the enemy here had a strong

preparatory position for this operation carefully prepared, this is a detailed study of the enemy, this is knowledge of his structure, his features, his state, including morale, this is of great importance, this is knowledge of our capabilities, this is detailed planning of actions, we planned the operation for five days in order to , in order to pass from the point of the wolf ravine, through the volochians of kukupyansk, the most important thing was to break the front line and the defense of the enemy, ours also spent about 60 percent of the planning of the operation, a map of 7 m was printed in relief, each commander should act according to

situation, each unit knew in detail what it was doing at the boundaries of time. the 92nd brigade fought defensive battles in that direction for a long time and once again knew the terrain of the region very well and was mainly in contact with the personnel who lived in the kharkiv region, then the 25th armored landing brigade, the 80th separate airborne assault brigade were selected , and , accordingly, the 95th brigade, some of the brigades were in full force, some partially, what we could do to practice these combat tasks. the plan of the operation assumed that when the brigade of the first echelon, which is 25 separate airborne and 92 separate mechanized brigades, defeats the enemy in his first position, and continues the offensive, we must go through their battle formations in such,

say, a corridor and from a certain line make such a detachment, dash and go further into the depths of the enemy's defenses, cut... the grouping between dukupinsky and izyum, creating a ring of encirclement, the depth of our task was well 90 km, that's even so, you know, during planning it was impressive. at that time, i was the commander of the department, we studied maps, worked routes, a lot of plans were drawn up, the team also noted in our tasks that we, we do not limit you in creativity, in self-initiative and decision-making, your task: the execution of the task, the methods which, this is your right, please do it, if you see, it is better to do this, do what needs to be done, in order to see through, break through, break their defense there, and

push forward, we counted on the fact that the enemy, who had near the border on the territory of russia to 11 battalion tactical groups that were in reserve, and those 12 battalion ones groups that were directly in reserve in anticipation that the enemy would start advancing and try to strike us in the flank of the advancing group, in all directions, were covered by special units that occupied the defense and in populated areas and on the main road directions, along which it is possible . there was a transfer of troops, only moving forward, activity, determination and courage gives us

an advantage. zzimskoration was such a surprise, before that we were in the slavic direction, we are being removed from our position and they say, we are moving in the direction of kharkiv, an offensive was planned there, we understood that something incredibly cool, large-scale was going to happen, because we saw how many troops were gathering, and the main thing was to keep everything a secret, even when i called my parents, not even told how and where it was happening, it was somewhere in the third decade of august, we also fought big battles before that, and after that we received the task of preparing for the kharkiv operation, were deployed from... when the combined military units were still in the waiting areas, then

the artillery has already occupied the areas in temporary firing positions, from which we daily, methodically carried out fire damage to the enemy. we have eyes, eyes, the so-called unit, this is his unit of unmanned aerial vehicles, which allowed us to observe and identify the enemy's targets in the lanes of further actions of the lane of our offensive, that is, we were aware of the front edge necessarily against the enemy, which we methodically were knocked out by artillery fire, and point shots, tanky zadomon. op,

op, at that time, we have, at our disposal the pre-active strategic group already had the means of fire damage, namely the foreign-made artillery system, 155 caliber, as well as the battery of mrr 30 rocket salvo systems, the success of the counterattack depended precisely on these machines, the targets were selected very successfully, the time was selected very successfully, very the operation was well planned, these machines started working long before the operation and only gained momentum , and when the operation to liberate kharkiv oblast began, so to speak, then we already...' well, we had a minimum of work, then

that we have already played our key role. at that time, we still don't use so many missiles for such a number of rockets, well, in one operation, the gunners also played a key role, inflicting massive losses on the enemy, defeating his groups there, this is thanks to, well , accuracy, efficiency, professionalism. our gunners, we created two reconnaissance and fire complexes, consisting of a 2000 panzerhaubi battery and a crab battery, and we gave them unmanned aerial vehicles, and our drones constantly hung out and we

inflicted fire damage on artillery. at the stage of preparation, we inflicted a lot of losses on the enemy, destroyed many elements of his logistical support, these are warehouses with fuel and bridging materials, stacks with ammunition, and we even managed to capture a captured lieutenant colonel, then it turned out that he was an officer of the central missile and artillery management, who, well the russians didn't... that the ammunition was knocked out and he came for the purpose of a valid inspection to the front and got into our column. the commanding officer had at least eight guns to support the brigade.

there were many difficulties, starting with whether the weather would help us. will the terrain help us, or will we fulfill all the tasks that were foreseen, again, the limitation of certain resources, the issue of stealth, before the preparation of the operation, we worried a lot about the fact that what the enemy discovers, he can fire a fire attack on the regional concentration and the outlying areas , it would be just so painful, the movement was hidden, fast, in the dark time, well and in general, the intelligence of the enemy, frankly speaking, it blew this moment, that is, we conducted an eastern offensive, the so-called, the brigades went through the ranks of other units and conducted a classic mobile

offensive, if you take, in general, count the whole show. was in this area, then, of course, this ratio was not in our favor, but we were advancing there on a rather narrow front, the 7 km that we had chosen, our task was to create an advantage in composition, forces and means in personnel for carrying out an offensive operation, that is against us, a tank division, a motorized rifle brigade, that is, an advantage in terms of weapons, very quantitatively, in terms of such, well, tanks , infantry fighting vehicles against us, but i will say, during this war, well, it does not work like that, the correct calculation, the correct plan works , the skill of the commanders works, the stability of the troops, the fire superiority works, the night before the offensive began, on

moscow 3030. three, a concentrated fire attack was made on the enemy’s control points, and this is what disorganization turns out to be, it played into our hands, and the enemy panicked, the onslaught of the combined arms units, the artillery wagon that was being moved, again, again, again, no volley of fire on the planned targets, which may be there, maybe they are not there, precisely point strikes, and we understood that the infantry, combined arms unit could advance further , everyone was very anxiously waiting for the first day, somehow the tension, it is

even so, in the control point, is justified. well , it was felt that there was a very tense situation, it was necessary to force the river through the seversky donets, two or three cars were moving dispersed in the forests, it was a surprise for the enemy when we went directly to the front edge and accordingly entered into battle with them, it was a shock for them. shurivka, nova husarivka and bera, with the occupation and release of these three, a counteroffensive began near kharkiv region, our units first occupied

the moscow stronghold, then the peter stronghold, they call it, and then... moscow and peter, it was a movie, worked out moscow , kombat, moscow is ours, we are cleaning up, we cleaned up, we cleaned up moscow, i am going to peter, the most important thing it was the first day, the first hours of the operation, so that the combined military units went into the first trench, let's say so, and it, well, at least, stuck to it and continued, then , taking advantage of the enemy's retreat, overtook them and destroyed them in the future, broke through the first echelon, the first position, well, accordingly , they had nothing further, and somehow so unexpectedly on the first day, we completed the task