two or three times a day, everyone there already knew him. oleksandr yarmolenko was in the army when kyiv region, where it was occupied, joined the ranks of the armed forces of ukraine as a gunner of the 66th brigade's artillery battery, which was preparing for battles in kherson region. the unit underwent coordination at the training center in densa. on may 17 , the russians launched a rocket attack on the right, only according to official data 86 people died. sasha was pulled out from under the rubble and he had injuries on the ... strong from life and, but there was not a single scratch on his watch. this watch is a gift to yulia oleksandr. he worked for more than a year after the death of his husband, and recently, the shooters stopped. i look, he stood up and the clock showed 4:10, the shelling was also 4:10, 4:12. maybe this is a message for you too, and he is like a guardian angel and protects us, now i always tell the children that papa is somewhere nearby. the walls in the apartment are hung with their

joint photos, the children ask their mother to constantly show videos in the phone where they are together. we had a tradition that dad got up early and made pancakes, and mom made pancakes, well, me all this is sorely lacking. yulia installed a new battery so that oleksandr's wrist watches would work, because the time of his husband's death seemed to have stopped, but one must live on. time doesn't heal, time just teaches you to live with it, some friends, acquaintances meet you there, they say how are you, you 've already left, well, he won't come back today or tomorrow, my children won't see dad, what can i leave, before photographs of oleksandr, a hundred of children's drawings, and from time to time, vanya writes letters to dad, he went through a lot, we worked with a psychologist, the psychologist spoke. sit down and write

letter to dad but what the children wrote today is special. vanya wants to send him to the sky, there, somewhere, and so that he will definitely fly, vanya dreams of sending a letter from his mother's homeland. when i was seven years old, i asked my dad what gender it was and said that when i grow up, what, that we will go up here with him. you can climb to the lowest point of the monument only if you are of age, but considering the importance of correspondence, tesen turned to the management of the world war ii museum and they do it for vani. exception, this is the highest monument in europe, we will climb that one the level where the third tooth ends is 92 m. sonya stays at the bottom, because it is too dangerous a climb for her, and we, together with ivan and yulia, begin this journey. sonya, i see you! we overcome 64 m with the help of ladders and elevators, somewhere to the thoracic part of the monument can be reached quite safely, but further, we have to overcome on foot without elevators. two

five-type houses, are you ready? yes, i’m slowly, follow me, mom, it’s still there, it ’s even more difficult there, now the most difficult part of the ascent begins, if we climbed to this height of 64 m by elevators, then we we are moving along such an iron tunnel that goes up, this is how it looks, it is physically difficult to climb, but vanya overcomes all the steps first. everything this observation deck is located in the palm of motherland, just behind the shield on which our herp now glitters. at this height , you can feel the wind shaking your hand. vanya takes a breath, gathers air in his chest and at a height of 92 m, reads a letter to dad. dad, hello, we miss you very much, and now i am the head of our family, as you said, dad, where do you live, sofiyka believes that you... have shops there and

you send us gifts for the new year and birthday, mom misses you very much and often cries, but sofiyka and i don't let her. vanya ties a letter to balloons, one balloon from sofiyka, and one balloon from ivanka. it is wrapped in the flag of ukraine and the hatch on the shield, where no one but him is allowed to look, launches its most important letter. dad from sonya and vanya, we love you. three years ago, they dreamed of climbing here as a couple, the lady today has this dream performs for dad as well, sometimes they say that we don’t believe in it, the war will end, and dad and all the soldiers will return, sometimes even i believe it as an adult, i was a very happy wife, we are very much behind him, after all, for sure there is a world and they... see us there, worry about

us, protect us. iryna markevich, andriy romanok, tsn, 1.1. only news marathon. to everyone who protects us both here on earth and there in heaven, a low bow and eternal glory, well , this plot itself and the entire letter of ivanka, which moves you to tears, can be seen again on the tsn youtube page, a new generation is growing strong and wise among us, and so that the horrors of war end sooner, to drive the enemy out of our land sooner, we stick together, help our defense forces as much as we can, and step by step, we pray for our victory. glory to ukraine and see you soon.

chevrons approaching victory. and another year, when 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 has been going on for centuries, but the whole world is already convinced, our independence should not be destroyed, drowned, burned, shot, and the greater our hatred, the stronger our independence, the closer our victory, we prove our independence every day.

how are you, everything is fine, like children, like a mother, i have more or less everything, well, almost , of course, that fatigue, of course insomnia, but in no case... don't feel it, because the strength is here, inside us, and in those who are close to us, we will definitely overcome everything. i also remember the first weeks, it was as if i was practicing and living only by work. everything that brought joy to it, somehow disappeared then the enemy started shelling our cities and our power line. the days without light, communication and heat have come. i started going on the air and explained. ukrainians, what is happening and what will happen next, at some point i remembered my old hobby, about photography, because no matter what the crisis, we must leave time for ourselves to be happy here and now, do you want to know how to help yourself and others, go to howar.com.

chevorony, approaching victory, in attack and in defense, day and night, from mockery and confidence, they pave the way with armor to of our victory, tank troops, the pride of the armed forces of ukraine. glory to the tankers of the armed forces of ukraine. help your child not to fall into a trap on the internet. the first and most important rule is

to talk to your children about cyber safety. don't be a controller and don't ban. be the adult who helps the child. and protects her. the prohibition method does not work, trust is effective. read more tips in the cybersecurity section of the dovidka website. info. let's go together. the first reaction was, am i farting here? over hand-to-hand combat, knives, pistols. you fall pelts you with shrapnel, you stand further and go, for example, the bem is transferred, lies down, we must destroy someone unequivocally, we will shoot down, well , there are no options, a documentary project about

people who save the country, a hero, on saturday, at 7:45 and at 11:45, the only news in the marathon. this is the best job in the world, our caliber is better, they ask. i saw myself in 5 years, that one, where in the earth, while the war is going on, i have to be here, here i am, here is rostov, and here is the border, here will be victory, my name is mykola, winter kent, chief of staff of the self-propelled artillery division, the glorious 24th cream mechanized brigade named after king danylo, you said that your parents were against it, they were categorically against it, then i walked around, let's say it like that, dripped on his brain that i need, i want,

i want, i want, i want more, but i don’t see myself anywhere else, i like it, then i didn’t move them , after a week or two, they were like that, okay, you’re going, the only thing my dad told me then was go to the artillery, that's all, i came like this, because i'm basically not from a military family, i understand i didn't know anything about the army at all, when i came for, let's say, the selection there, i was asked the question, where do you want to go, and i said, what is there? they went there and went tanks, artillery, engineers, infantry, i’m the one who was there first , artillery, yes, that’s all, i’m going to the artillery, because dad said, and the specialty, i say, and what is it, ground artillery, rocket troops , artillery reconnaissance, that there was ground artillery, in the ground artillery, that's all, that's how i'll find the artillery, the infantry is, well, it's really strong, what they can withstand, constant artillery fire, aircraft. well, in spite of everything, he still has it is necessary, in spite of everything, we still need to carry out practical actions, these are really fearless guys

, let's say so, who do their job and do it very cool, i understand that the greatest hope of a simple infantryman in the trench is precisely in people like you, exactly it's up to you, why sometimes situations arise when the soldiers in the trenches think that the arta does not cover us, well, it counts, because the dear soldier who is in that trench, yes, he wants to see something specifically and that's all, he counts , that i should immediately open fire there, that's all he wanted, that's all, well, they just don't understand, for example, the general picture , that the artillery will not work, for example , one orc at a time, so, that is, to have some efficiency, so to speak, not to throw shells into the void, there should be some group of infantry there, well, at least as a minimum.

well, let's not take these, let's say so, according to the soviet, when there are the dimensions of the target, that there must be a lot of projectiles thrown at that target, let's take , let's say, the realities of today, if there are two or three orcs, then it is necessary to open fire because now there will be two or three, in 5-10 minutes there will be another two, three, two, three, and that's how they will accumulate a whole bunch, so at 2:30 we can already say so, open fire, i have friends in the infantry. and i always hear that the artillery over there does not support, does not support, does not support, i support you morally, i support them , but when they already call, and they have worked so hard, for them, well, for the result, that is , they have achieved what they wanted, oh, there are handsome men, you are better, there is artillery, the gods of war are here and there, everything is beautiful, oh everything, they like it, everything, here they just fired from the artillery, it stopped, everything, the artillery does not support us, everything, it is really offensive, because, for example, we have a position, there is a battery commander, he has a friend from the infantry there there is a company commander or someone and everything, help me, i need your support

, but he does not understand that this battery commander cannot simply open fire without the permission of, let's say, the senior commander, because, well, that's all under the record, that is, there are planned targets, there are unplanned targets, that is, the consumption of ammunition, has to be somehow agreed, and someone thinks like that, that’s all, i wanted, come on , you’ve been in the brigade since the 19th year, so tell me, and probably from the 19th to the 21st it might have seemed that we never fought normally, or not, and that's how it was, well, i remember, we came to the brigade, we were in the 19th year, my dear, that's how we came, everyone accepted a position there, went to the firing position, there was no work there, there won't be, damn it, well so you want to beat up the orcs, you want to and that's all, they don't give, there will be nothing of the campaign, the gift is in vain studied, but, as practice shows, not for nothing, well, of course, we learned it one

at a time, but the way we are fighting now, it’s already in a different way, that is, it’s already here, everyone has their own ingenuity, their ideas, suggestions , that is, let's say this, not according to the books, to take the elementary consumption of ammunition, so there it is, as it was before, not an observation target, there you need to dump two wagons of ammunition on that unfortunate target, there on 6 hectares, well, 300 on... . now, well, no one does that, because there is, we have a uav, they launched an uav, that is, they found target, shot, well, the consumption is much less. for some reason, it seems to me that since february 24 you have fired the amount of ammunition that you did not expect from yourself, after 8,000 i stopped counting, they were already out of gold . and i've already run out of notebooks, i'm already like that, you have a shortage of ammunition now, no

, that is, you are so rich, rich, well, maybe not a millionaire there , maybe a billionaire there, let's put it this way, but it's enough, enough for them, you have ammunition from many countries of the world, from many, we also had and in my opinion, and which were not there, we sometimes think that what about in the beginning , when they just started giving them, there were long-range projectiles, how to count them, then with... we figured it out, let's say, on youtube, by the experiment method was it with soviet weapons, or when the international left? soviet is better, we are used to them, we knew, we know how he behaves, now we also already know how these behave, but i don't know, something, something better, as for me, more expected,

more expected, you are so young, your acacia it’s already 75th, so the year of birth, 76th, 78th, 80th, it’s not offensive to you that they gave you such an old car, no, we have it, well , how, if you compare what someone else has there are three sevens, it’s clear that i can’t have them, because these are the means of a senior boss , well, even elementary, someone has a 109 there, you think, but i would also like one, but considering that if you think about it, that m109 , she is, well, plus or minus approximately the same age as my acacia, i probably think so, that is, even if the acacia is not feeling well recommended, that is, it’s always inaccurate there, or it doesn’t shoot accurately there or it constantly breaks down, then you could still complain, but yes, let’s put it this way, i’m not crying to rearm me, give me something on

the web, because i it's difficult, all the crews are ready to work on acacia, well, if they give us something , of course, we will be glad, for us, what is it, what is it, it doesn't matter, it's difficult to make a god of war out of a mobilizyak? it is not difficult, it is roughly necessary, i count from practice from experience, well , three or four weeks to prepare a normal a fighter so that he knows his job, not ideal, but for the assessment it is good, well, three or four weeks, i think that a maximum of 3-4 weeks, well, once. you are now a commander, you have subordinates, how to help them survive losses, you just have to work and communicate with people, i don’t take it anymore that there are combat stress groups, there are deputies for moral and psychological support, who directly have to deal with it, even

the commander himself, elementary gun commander, sergeant or platoon commander, he must communicate with his... people, i always i use it, i like it, it’s black humor, everyone knows that if i have black humor, and i have it, even some sergeants attribute it to me, i just can’t voice it, it’s obscene language, but they are already saying, petrovich, they can already make memes about you there, in short, i have a chief of communications, this is when the beginning came, and the chief of intelligence also came to me then, we had a lookout, in short, and then they shot down, then put on the second rush to the third battalion, i remember, it was broken again, well, and then we put in the guards on the ninth floor, in short, they put a rush, well, i send the chief of communications together with the chief of intelligence to put a rush, then they come, i tell them that i bet them 200 bucks, that they will not return, they are my money they had an argument, and my communications chief

said after that, i don't talk to you anyway, you're tough, you 're constantly betting on me. no, i'm all, well, i communicate with them like this, black humor, i always tell him there, i send him, he goes somewhere, i say, well that's all, come on sanya, you won't come back, in short, for the 24th brigade, which place, which city was the most difficult? the most difficult times for us were poor, but i can't say that it was easy in kherson, first of all, the terrain was very difficult and we were constantly harassed by aviation there. constantly 24/7, plus the ingolets river, and these crossings, we had several of them there, and they constantly bombed them, well, that was it, well, it was difficult, the crossing is closed in the evening, you leave at night. to take the guy away, for example, ammunition, that's all, she's gone, you're looking for a friend, she's not there, well, that's it

herson was very difficult for the plan, and of course bahmut, it's also, let's say, hell , what city are you from, from the dnipro, you have such a good ukrainian, i've been in lviv for the eighth year, they ukrainianized you, i do. were you a russian speaker before? yes, how easy it was for you to switch to, it was difficult, but it became fundamental when i entered the academy, well , after the events of the 14th year, i had the principle that i must get rid of russian completely, i slowly, slowly, slowly , your recipe, what should be done, there are some of yours, you know, well, there is nothing, there is none nothing, a desire, the main desire, a desire and i count reading ukrainian literature, that's all, what was the last book you had time to read? well, it’s not ukrainian literature, but now i’m reading the last one, it was the art of war, guys

, and now i bought a book on the battlefield, it’s an american general, he’s telling the story, well, i just started reading, i don’t really know what else is being talked about there, well, it's called battlefields, and the most favorite one is chris kyle , an american sniper, i love the movie, the book, and why are you a stavelerist? you are do you like pro snnai? in fact, these are the same snipers, we just have a larger caliber. so you are cooler than a cool sniper, well yes, if without undue modesty, well, in fact , yes, the same, only better, our caliber is better, bigger, bigger is better and more effective, i don’t like the word russophobe, but there was a time when did you accept them normally when you stopped accepting russians normally? well , somewhere, so completely, completely 100%, so as to cut off, after a full-scale invasion,

when it began, it was already right before that i loved them very much, let's say, but after a full-scale invasion, it's already categorical , no, no, you can do everything for me on vacation, i even remember from the academy, that's a month of vacation time, well, the maximum i can stay normally, let me go for two weeks, i can’t sit at home anymore, that’s all, i already want to go back, i’ve had fun, and that’s enough, how do you like to have fun, go somewhere to rest, for some, i’m not talking about bukovel , there are seas there, even elementary somewhere outside lviv to leave, relax, even at home, being close to family, it's already a vacation, i don't really need it anymore, i just want to sit at home, i'll be there, for example, in a week, well, whatever friends are there, call someone there, let's go there, let's go there, well, but you still don’t have time to see all your friends in one vacation, considering that now even more so, partial vacations are granted,

you don’t have time for anything at all, i had all the documents expired, passport, id, in short , everything, everything is complete, i i spent two weeks working on documents, listen, ah the stress of vows, how strong it is, how it can be noticed and helped, i understand, there are some groups and people, but there is one person, she is afraid, for example, well, i know, i am afraid myself, the worst was when it was direct getting into the pale, and then one of our sergeants was crushed by a crossbar, he was already there , he was under so much stress, panic, that's all , he was already there, let's say, he was even starting to suffocate, he had already adjusted to the fact that he would die , that they won't get him out of there, but nothing, they dug it up, and then the guys with him they worked, talked, even at him... he was so, well, let's say this - he was so scared , well, stress was in him that he did not talk at all, he walked, and the second ee is also

a sergeant, he is, in principle, well, now he is a little too extreme it went like this for a couple of months, and after that he, well, papasnoy, he is with us where he was not, he is always armor, a fairy tale, he did not take it off, he slept, ate, in general practically. except when we were already there for some sort of restoration, he would film everything, only we drove back to the zone, everywhere, he did not film, this has now let him down a little, and as he hears, he is leaving us now with a group of drone operators, we have a pilot, so he is constantly in position, but he hears that somewhere there is an arrival, everything is stress for him, what to help such a person, to communicate, it is necessary... well, i like some jokes to cheer up the mood, something like that, but you know, there are situations, because it's just simple to tell a person that oh, everything is fine, everything will be fine, don't worry about it, well, i i think

it is. it doesn't help, just to say that everything will be fine, but how do you reassure your parents? jokingly , how are you? i say, well, what am i going to tell you, they say, watch the news, i say, but the news is going back and forth, he says, well, what am i going to do to you, he says, maybe someday , they will tell you something, the wives don’t care what you would advise the wives military personnel, how to help their men, what can be done to make it easier for a man at the front, what not to say, what not to say to do, they would ask fewer questions, and to which they want to hear the answers, but they would rather not hear them, because those answers can make them screw themselves even more, because when the man is, let's say, there at zero in the position, yes he is there, well, it is clear that

he has a risk. he is scared there, he is a plus, despite all that, he is still worried about his wife, how she is there, that everything is fine with her, you come to lviv, there are people walking on the street, it is unusual, for the first three days, probably, you sit like that , well, that is, you walk down the street, like that look, everything is so calm, everything is so cool, everyone, everyone, yes, everyone is walking , that is, it is unusual in general, i think that what am i doing here, and where are my things, and what are they doing there, is there anger towards these people? well, let's say this, in the beginning, maybe there was anger to a certain extent, er, especially, sometimes, when you see some videos, er, how civilians behave in relation to the military, then in general anger

takes over, i understand that well, not everyone can fight, that is, well, everyone, someone has to fight, someone has to deal with the rear, that is, providing and something like that, well, when people don't respect the work of the military, then that's too much, and when they even openly start calling them names or saying that we owe them something, and they should be cool with posting photos, videos, how he relaxes there, sunbathes, i don’t understand, are there any parties there, how they celebrate there, if they also throw a video that they are celebrating their birthday in some restaurant there and there are songs in russian, that’s it for this is somehow unacceptable to me, i see a lot here and in in principle, let's say this, i don't regret that i'm not in civilian life, well, in civilian

life, as they say, that i'm there, for example, my classmates are there, or classmates, there, someone somewhere abroad, someone is doing something here and there, for me, i think that my place is here and i, in principle, let's say this , do not see myself in civilian life, i like everything here, everything suits me, i am proud that i am in the ranks of the armed forces of ukraine, no do you feel gratitude from people, from the circle of those civilians whom i know, my friends, there i know, then there is gratitude, even those who went abroad have friends there, the same in america , they constantly call from there, how are you doing, here, come on, we’ll give you that, they sent the forms there, and the armored cars, well, that is they helped as much as they could, the swedes are also acquaintances there, who, well, constantly , that is, someone, supports and tries to somehow, well, provide help, at least moral support, that ’s already what, well, when they say that you are well done, here

we are , we believe in you, that it is not for nothing that there is a lot of noise, of course, when there is company rests and there they drink and together to victory, you think, and how are you going to that victory in general, if you do nothing, you do nothing for it, you are a military man, i understand that you will still be in the army and will continue to serve, but what are your plans? honestly, i often think about it myself, well, if you take it as personnel, then my contract ends next year, and sometimes i think, so what to do, it can end my career, well, the war will end, end my career , and then i think, what should i do, i'm basically nothing anymore i can, i don't know anything, i'll say it like this, i've been cooking in this porridge from the very beginning, and here i am.