step by step, they are freeing our land, fields and forests, houses that have been visited by evil from invisible death, life will not return here without sappers, without the courage and dedication of these people, we will not return home, for your work and our safety, thank you sappers of the state emergency service of ukraine. from now on, goodies under the pillow will appear on time. on december 6, we celebrate saint nicholas day. rules of a warm country. healthy care. it is cool in the house, but not cold. thank you for dressing your deer. it is easier to warm one person than to warm the whole an apartment let's beat the winter together.

the extreme record holder, the traveler who has visited almost 140 countries, two dozen of which are considered the most dangerous in the world. he was looking for adrenaline and eventually found it at home with the onset of full scale war. he left his usual life and went to the front as a volunteer. he spent nine months in bakhmut, saved dozens of lives, and one rescue story almost became a script for a hollywood movie. his brothers call him stone. and we are glad to welcome to the program today the face of our military defender, petro voloshchenka i welcome you, and right away i want

to start with the story of stasyk, yes, this is the one i mentioned, which is really worthy of a hollywood movie script, how did it happen, how did you even meet this child that you saved? well, this whole incredible story began at the beginning, at the very beginning of winter, when it was already quite cold and, but at the front itself, the hottest phase began, when , with the attack on bahmud, they tried to take him from the march, all those troops, the so-called wagnerites , and regular troops, that is, they then threw everything they could at bahmud, and for them we had to take this fortress city at any cost, and we were returning that day, since we were leaving solidar, we were returning from solidar and drove into bahmud and fell under... then

there was such a flurry of artillery shelling and we could not pass through the main road on the road there and turn back there behind one house, because that is where the shell landed and we turned, hiding from the fire itself, turned a little to the right and went into the yards to more or less wait out this flurry of shelling, because it was an acute phase, and driving into the yard, we quickly saw a picture there. there were people who were busy, despite the shelling, the way they were already used to it, you know , they were busy with their household chores, which was chopping wood, cooking food, they made a kitchen on the street right next to the entrance, that is, yes, as in the building itself, well, the apartments, half of the apartments were already burned down, broken, the roofs were broken, in these nine-story buildings, there is such a large building, and they stand, as you know, those... were, well, the architecture was such

squares, that is, the house opposite the house and inside was the courtyard itself, and there they were doing their household chores, preparing their rides, because the evening was approaching, it was getting dark and we had to go on, but i said, let's stop and go out, something with the people might help, maybe water we had water there with us, there were some cookies, some products there, and i saw. the following picture: there were two children in the yard, and this for me , in general, switches everything at once, since children are the first thing that needs to be removed from the target, taken out, saved, because what else is the problem then i was in bakhmut, and in general, at the moment, they hide children, people hide children from shelling, hide children from evacuation, well, it happened to me. it is impossible to explain, i

have asked a thousand times why you are hiding children from us, why do you think that someone may have told them through propaganda, then also that they can be separated from their parents or taken away. somewhere in unknown directions, only the russians can do this, who already have thousands of our children in this, in this, in this and that, and these children were in the yard, it was unusual, because children 24/7 usually sit in basements, and there they are we find them, and there we bring them water and medicine there and if possible, we persuade them, but they were on the street and this very little boy, he was chopping wood, he had a red pickaxe in his hands, as i remember now. it's a miner's, you understand, it's a miner 's land, he had it in his hands, a tool, and he was helping his father by putting this pickaxe and they chopped this raw wood, you understand, people survived as best they could, it was already winter, that is, winter is already

fierce, it was the month of december, the beginning, i approached him and said, what are the children doing here, vichi, where are the parents, the first question is where is your mother, where is who? he says: mom, he's cooking soup for us right now, you see, he showed mom, and where i'm talking, this is my brother, and i saw his older brother there, he's such a tall boy , the boy was very scared of the war, very much, he didn’t even talk, you understand how much the children were in such a shock, they had been there for a month, and i said, stasik, more precisely, what are you doing here, he says, my name is stasik, i say, what are you doing here, he says, and we cannot live at home, this is our house, we are from the village we are not going anywhere, he is so big. the boy says, where is your apartment, he says, my apartment is located in that hallway, on the fifth floor, i got there, we know what else we found out right away, that there was an arrival there, that is, there was a direct hit of a shell,

right into the house, the house stands on the edge of bahmudka, there is a river, this bahmudka, and it was the very edge , and it was already such a front line, that is, it was already ground zero, where there could only be soldiers, where battles were going on, where through... the house and whether artillery shells were already flying everywhere, not just rockets, he says let's go, i'll show you, i say, well, you're such a brave guy, i say, are you serious, all the adults who were in the yard, there were about 10 of them there, he says don't go there, everything burned down there , it’s dangerous there, it’s possible there, it’s still smoldering there, they came, there’s no water in bakhmut, and they extinguished it as best they could, extinguished the fire and it’s still very dangerous there and there’s a possibility the roof is there, but this little boy says, please, let’s go, i 'll show you, well, and he and i both went there, he understands, yes, after him, a woman went alone, i say, well, go at least, i don’t know if there is much there

, the boy, me alone, and the two of us, he was the first to go, and when we began to gradually climb to the floor, and then the third, fourth, fifth floor was already there that one... i could actually hear, you know, this fire, he went to that door himself, i opened it, he ran first, i also told him, stasik, be careful, there a projectile blew a hole in the floor between the fourth floor and the sixth floor, everything above still dripped and burned, the apartment heated up to the background and there was such a tear from this projectile that hit straight, i understand, through the window, and he began to show where they were shooting from, that you understand that these are already children of war, these are children, these are children of war, yes they are, i was still looking at him then, i did not understand what hey, i say , how come children, adults like that, they don’t like tablets, they don’t like all these games, they live in a war, and they understand everything, from where they shot, that it came from the body, that it was shot, he says, that russians say, they shot at our house, the guy understands everything, he showed us everything, we

got to know him, then we went down when down to where they were cooking , i had them there with me, my spare socks were there and there were some spare things, i gave him everything, i say, this is mine, i will give it all to you, i gave mine and i had clothes there some of mine, which i pawned for changing clothes, but i gave it all to him and he gave me the last ones there somewhere, i found everything that was in the car, i gave it to these people , i gave it all to these children, i say, unfortunately for me, i don't have anything, but i'm back, i say, i'll come back, so i'll take it from here, and they'll go immediately they didn't want to, yes, i wonder what kind of parents they are. at the first meeting, but right before that , i asked, i said, do you want to leave, well, my mother said, where, we, we are here, we will not go anywhere, and i understood that it is difficult, i say, but i promise, i don't know , i don't care, i'll take you out, stas, i swear to you,

and i later learned that they were alone in the whole house, for sure, they lived alone, there, two children, a marquis cat and a mother with dad , i got to their house for the first time and we started talking, i spent a long time with him talked, i'll be honest with you, i gave different arguments, and then i showed them my photos, there is no connection, but i had many photos in my phone, and i show who i am, what i am, i tell that i saw the world , that i am children, how i treat children all my life, that i saved children in africa and various children, and was in dangerous places, and showed a lot of things, and the children liked it, and stas liked it, he he says, he is like that, well, a brave military man, but i like him, he tells this to mom, dad, i know you kept your promise, and recently, stasyk and his family celebrated novosillya,

so to speak, now i want to show the audience a story about this, and we will continue, first little stans launches the marquis cat into his own home, then the family enters. a two-room apartment in dnipro is now a new home for a family from bakhmut. welcome home. the whole world knows the story of staz now, but it was just beginning. everything from burning bachmut, a brave seven-year-old boy showed the soldier where the next russian missile had landed, this was the boy's first acquaintance with petro voloshchenko, the soldier decided anything to get the boy and his family out of hell, i just showed him i just showed him the burned down apartment, he said i will take you out of here without fail, i guarantee you that you will have a normal life. stasik, you agree, you want to leave, there will be normal children

like you, you want to leave, you will live in normal ones, in order to evacuate stas's family to a safe place, the military was developing a whole special operation for almost a month, because at that time the beginning of december was going on in the city fierce battles, the russians fought with all possible weapons, there were rifles, the guys, units, and snipers would have been involved and tanks, our pilots were involved, that is , everything was connected and aerial reconnaissance, everything was done as needed so that the family could leave safely, the family was managed to get out in 35 minutes, and the new year is 2023 stasik and his relatives met in chernivtsi, volunteer marta levchenko sheltered them. mykolay asked, when he arrived, where stasik was, he left him presents under the christmas tree, this is very necessary and he was very much expected , and stasik said that he still has friends there who have stayed, and it will be very cool when he is here

his whole company will gather, we will be very happy. the main event took place in bukovinna, the soldier petro became the godfather of a boy from bakhma, and being far from his godson, the soldier found time for communication and for gifts. the parcel arrived. this is our family member, quite so close to whom i owe my life, stas's family lived in chernivtsi for almost 10 months, during this time everyone recovered from what they had to go through in bakhmut, brought them back to health, found new friends , and the family got a chance to start life in dnipro, the family was released from bukovyna. reluctantly, we love you very much, always come

, always, as you want, don't even ask , just how to go home, we didn't expect, we didn't expect, we were shocked when peter said that we would have an apartment, for us it was a sensation, it was a sensation for us, petro tried to find his family his own home, and after learning about the story of a brave boy from bahmutakh, volunteers bought an apartment for the family. the first apartment and i will soon announce three more apartments in the lviv region will be given to the families whose soldiers died, our heroes, our example is for another category, as for those who care, representatives of business, people of our society, this is a message that we should all be together, in the new apartment stas's family little by little, a steam engine, i can, a steam engine, i can, i can, a flower

, i can, a car, i can a crocodile, i can a little crocodile, the boy really likes to spend time in the new kitchen, he is learning to cook, dumplings, with his mother, i hope, yes, and why exactly dumplings , i love dumplings, because there i am, stasik admits, he misses the cross, but keeps in touch with him every day. what exactly are they talking about, he keeps it a secret and shared with us that he dreams of being like peter, a military man, i will become a military man, follow in the footsteps of a formidable man, right? i think that i will give him everything that i can give , this is to save people, to be merciful to them, and to go to the end to his dream, no matter what, from the housewarming of his godfather, peter goes to the front again, because there he says, there are still people left and they need to be evacuated, konstantinnivka, druzhkovka and these chasivyars are the priority

points for me, from which we speak to take out the children and those families who remained, perhaps died, and there are children there who sit with their grandmothers, you understand, that is, with them, and we continue to work on this, and stas, meanwhile, plans to celebrate his eighth day already this weekend birth and is happy with the new school, he is a bookkeeper, from dnipro olena metaliuk, yaroslav zasoba, tv channel inter, marathon one news, what interested me, special opera. no matter how it sounds now, i'm sorry, it doesn't sound bad in ukraine, but it was really a special military operation, but rescue stasika, why were there aviation, snipers, well , you see how we differ from the russians, we have a special military operation, it is to save lives, one, it doesn’t matter, five, 10,

but for us every life of our ukrainians... it is important, for them a special operation - is to destroy other people, that is fundamentally our difference for centuries and millennia, it has always been like that, ukrainians, we are different, we are another nation, we have our own identity, we have our history, and therefore, i understood that time does not in our favor, since there was a very acute phase of their offensive, of these units, there everyone was involved, both fire fighters and russians, paratroopers, and marines , they threw everything at bakhmut, they threw all their best units, they did not, did not expect that bakhmut would give such a fight, and therefore they believed that they would pass him , as prigozhin said, on the march, but on the march it didn’t work out, they,

we broke their legs, spine and head, and that’s why they all stayed there, all their bones, theirs, and i understood that it was necessary as quickly as possible to do this, and i begin to hatch a plan exactly how to do this special operation, because it was already impossible to simply go and take them out, there were already very fierce battles and there was already a very dense fire, mortars were already lying down, so there i was... even under mortar fire, and this is already closer than artillery, they approached , they were already throwing mines there , and that is why there was a danger of getting caught as well, and the most important thing was to endanger children and civilians and those very people who would come by this bus, to take their minibus there, and that 's why everything was like that, i knew that it was necessary

to conduct aerial reconnaissance first, everything was according to the law of the military, state , that is, air reconnaissance, then there was intelligence and then there were groups of sso snipers, the best, these were people who are my brothers, who i am personally, all who decided on this operation are people, absolutely heroes, who took it upon themselves courage, took the courage to take these people out, because they already knew a lot from me and some of them went. with me to their apartments, people were also present at the ablutions and they were already personally acquainted and it also affected them and they said stone we will help you and we they started talking in parallel with the family, i continued to walk and talk about the departure and in parallel to prepare a military

special operation in which our tanks were also involved and were involved. the aviators were involved in a shooting battle, but what did the tanks do, i’m sorry, this cover was like that, and what did the aviation do, there was no aviation there, we canceled the aviation , the aviators mean quadcopters, there were quadcopters, they were our best operators who knew well area and which every day performed combat tasks on reconnaissance and on the prevention of artillery fire and where is the enemy, what is he preparing, where are their calculations and at what stages is all this happening right now, so first of all it was all worked out in advance, it was days ago, we were scouting the very territory, battles were taking place in parallel, we were performing all... tasks in parallel what these were for observation , for repelling attacks, but we were preparing our operation, preparing a withdrawal, preparing several

exit routes, that is, we did not plan to enter by one road and we did not plan to leave by one road, and at the moment, when we , put themselves forward for exactly this operation already on mechanized equipment, there were several jeeps, it was a minibus , there were tanks in front, the tanks played a role, they played the role of distracting attention, namely, shooters and distracting the attention of these, well , mortars, and they fulfilled their role perfectly, we they were confused that there was not a single shot at that moment, they did not know what to do, because the convoy was constantly dividing and rejoining other streets, and it was clear to them that this was being done there, how did we get to this , that at first we drove together on the road, then we parted, we went to the left, they went straight, then we , since we have high-speed jeeps, we left from

one side and the tanks left from the other, caught up, and at the end, when we were already in the most dangerous area, it was already near the bahmudka, there was such a slope, and the tanks went to the left, and we entered the yard to the right, and at that we disappeared, and the tanks disappeared from theirs, the fact that the tanks from... i started, we quickly poured out, first the snipers landed, who took positions on the houses, near, and it was all around, at first we were fixed, confirmation received from quadcopters and our operators that everything is fine, then i went... to the house and stas was already sitting on the window with a cat, when i looked up, and the boy is sitting on the window, i

show him and it is not necessary anymore, what already my father runs out, after me, and we go in, he says, he is waiting for you unreal, and stas, i go into the apartment, there is no light, nothing, they immediately start to quickly put on the last ones. those pants, because it was cold, they put on everything they could and it was all very fast, i say, where are your things? well, he says, we are we don’t take anything with us, we believe you, and they literally took two rather large suitcases with them, peter says, let’s leave, and i, we take, there was no carrier, no pity, nothing, stas takes the cat in his arms, such a healthy marquis , and he and the cat and the whole family, we quickly go out into the yard. there was a civilian bus standing in the back , on the side were our military jeeps, and we closed it all and they got inside, i closed the door, we got

into the car again, uh, right there, in the first minute , a message came that it is possible, green, we we can move, but we moved the other way, we didn't go that way again, because they realized that something unreal was happening, they didn't know what and how, i think, they also work... of course, aerial reconnaissance, and we left by another way by the way very fast, as i say, i say , this 30 minutes is unreal in life, this action is incredible, you are now telling, like the script of some hollywood action movie , really, this is really a script on which you can shoot a feature film, because that was all in reality and when we are already on the big fast jumped out onto the road and flew to konstantin. and when we got to konstantinnivka , we got out of the car , i went to the bus, opened the door, my whole family was sitting, a cat with

such eyes, and they couldn't believe it, he said, we had already left, they were even scared look, they just couldn't understand what was happening, and when i was in konstantinivka, i exhaled, i realized that i had done it, and i let go, but how did they survive this journey, just how? in one, i don't know, in one breath, they survived, thanks guys, what were driving this bus, they were also military, but from another part, and thanking that benefactor and he, that pastor, he helps a lot, and it was he who gave this bus, and you see, many people, it was the ukrainians who responded to do this, risking your life, is also a brilliant story, i know that , of course, it had a continuation, you helped find temporary housing in chernivtsi when they were there, and became a godfather there, that is , stasyk was not baptized before that, so it was

really such a ... faith is beautiful from the family, but you also helped them find permanent housing in dnipro and get their father a job and stasyk to school, how did you manage to combine it with your military days, with your main job, if you can say so, well, those 15 years gave me unrivaled and without ceaseless travels. me , i already had it all on automatic, i always had to think further, have more time and think even faster, because all this had to be combined very quickly, and i did not stop thinking about this family as well, and at the same time taking others out, showing this example, i say, let's try, and where are we going, well, you understand how they

feel there, but i was showing them an example that there is... life, there is a chance, let's take advantage of it, you are here in the line of fire, and when i talk to him , there was one family and another, there were girls, there were boys, that is, they were right in the line of fire and their house was also hit, but they did not see a way out , and i offered them exits, and i pulled these people out, and that's when it was already after and there were terrible shellings, the front was moving, the line was constantly burning, everything was already different, and i continued, but at one point, being at night, it was difficult to sleep, i just lay down, and the bell rang, and there was no, unknown i have a number, i took it and there was a boy with a child, hello petro, i'm stasik, and for me it was in general, and it also confirmed

that it was still a child. left, he didn't call right away, time passed, time passed, i say, yes, hello, mom gave your number, and we started talking, he started writing me, sending voice messages, some pictures, send smileys, he started to worry a lot about me, and i for him , and we already started talking, both me and my parents and everyone offered me, he says... peter, my father said there, and my mother later picked up, we want you to become our boy's godparents, i say, fine, when the opportunity arises, someone from the village, i will now agree, how to leave the village, i am ready, and follow me, we agreed and on one of the days, too, a transport that took me from kostiantynivka from

the edge of the city came to me, and we... drove on a straight road to chernivtsi, it was incredible for me, the first time i left vitil, i also perceived it all differently, having spent time from autumn until almost spring, in this real hell, i did not move beyond kostantinivka, because in our there was a short distance here, kostiantynovka bahmud, every day we go in for two days, we leave for a day, and here i am taken to another life as well, and i too... for me it was a little different, i understood how a family that sat almost 10 months under fire, now i understood them too, because i left too a little further, and here was such a wonderful story at that very moment, you said that now you remembered that there were almost nine months in hell, why for bahmud there were such fierce gods, why did they need bahmut? you mentioned that

they threw the best there, not only the wagnerians, but also the navy seals, the landing force , the best, yes, i always said, and now even a little time has passed since the moment when the most terrible battles were fought for bahmud, i and now i will also say that our command, which developed this operation and developed it the defense forces, as we called all that , everything that was there, we were the defense forces, i believe that all our generals, who were in command of the eastern, operational command, and our commander-in-chief, and our president, all worked as a team, a lot the dog was also thrown in and a lot of other information was thrown in about the fact that bahmud had to be handed over.