by certain categories of people, officials, that now corruption in the ministry of defense, in the ministry of internal affairs, that is, in village departments, is the lowest in the entire history of ukraine's independence. when some precedents arise and the mass media cover them, it shows the capacity of those media, the influence of the media, the influence of social networks, the raising of some social problem, an important problem for the army, for the formation of our state and defense. abilities and then the state and the leadership of our state takes some lever or someone are eliminated, or you already know it, or it does not accept it, and even now it may be superfluous, let’s talk about the situation when dmytruk fled and the supreme commander initiated a meeting about this situation, that in two weeks there will be some kind of decision, er, when it it was a month and a half ago, right? in my opinion, maybe these

decisions were made, but they were not made public, that is, i am talking about the fact that we all now need to communicate with each other, i as a commander with personnel, the military and political leadership with the military, my subordinates with their citizens, we also need feedback, a situation has arisen, it must be discussed, the decision and not disseminated, someone can say that this is secret information, i understand all this, but we can say that we have made a decision, now it is happening... processes to improve this situation, we went deeper, and there is a minister or a deputy minister, because the minister may be on some trips there to improve our influence on the international arena, i understand all this, there are spokespeople, there are press officers who can communicate this with citizens and military personnel of their countries to this the situation was not hushed up and there was no heat of this situation and the russian federation did not use it, that is, any... situation,

or it is the szch, a serviceman who left and flaunted it, or it is dmytruk who escaped, all this must be communicated and to explain to every citizen that we see these processes, they are happening, and that this does not affect the further there, precedents for the arbitrary leaving of parts, we consider why he left, how we can analyze this situation, how we can improve it and what in the future it neple commanders, here i can say, unit commands in such a military formation as the national guard of ukraine, these processes are taking place, that is, some situation has arisen, either positive or negative, we make a briefing on this situation and we see what we we can take from this situation that has arisen, how we can improve it and prevent this from happening in the future. you are now painting a portrait of an ideal commander b... of any rank

in fact, that is, the importance of knowing, understanding, what is happening in the heads and souls of subordinates, and therefore to build a strategy for your behavior with these people, because you spend most of your life with them now, but i would also like to note that, unfortunately, not always as of now, at least teams are different, let's call it general. but integrity, yes, that is, there are decisions that were deliberately made and they were deliberately made in the wrong direction, could lead to tragic consequences, all this is also a normal manifestation of war, especially of such insane intensity, in fact, at the beginning of the large-scale invasion, our higher military command was characterized by the fact that it allowed commanders... at the places of various links

to make decisions, that is, the moment of this delegation and understanding that a person on the ground sees and understands and we trust this person, it was is it now and is there not, let's say , a reverse process, when the commanders are perhaps hostages of the old school, let's call it that, and somewhere they are afraid to raise. up the problematic issues of their unit there, which they, conditionally speaking, are now leading, or are they generally in do we have a problem with commanders, as of now in the ukrainian army? you know, the problem of commanders, this is the question, do we now have commanders, they are the same age as me, battalion commanders who directly make decisions on the battlefield, there are also... older in age, there are also younger in age,

this right now about combatants, on the battlefield decisions have to be made very quickly, as you rightly say, they can be wrong, because the intensity of the battle is very high. actions, the enemy uses reconnaissance in large numbers their means, military weapons and equipment and a large amount of ammunition and a large number of personnel conducting assault operations. the battalion commander with the company commander who is working, they make decisions at their level, that is, the battalion commander is given fire equipment, which is included there in the battalion tactical group or simply in the line battalion, and they make decisions there when to enter. what means to use, business trips at their level use their fire means, their reserves, that is, it happens because, for example, we take the battalion commanders there from our military unit of the rubizh offensive guard brigade, then they all passed

the rank, if not the platoon commander, then maybe they were even sergeants, the company commanders were sergeants, they performed tasks, they were riflemen, grenade launchers, machine gunners , and they are more promising... then the career ladder allows them, and they are commanders of zods, commanders of clans, go to battalion management, they understand how these processes take place from below, these teams understand how scary it is to be in a trench when you they storm the enemy, but you have to take action, you have to fight back, because if you, you know, there is such a situation, it is very simple, you stand in a position and you are afraid to watch, but you do not see that landing, you see the enemy, you just crouch and you're... more, you know, on some subconscious level it's calmer, but when you realize that if you don't do this, they're going to come and kill you, they're going to take you prisoner, or they're going to kill your brothers, and you you do, you are afraid, you do it, and you understand, you see the enemy, you enter into it in a shooting battle, you destroy it, and

you know it, a shooting battle now sounds very exciting, for me personally and for the personnel, because in order to conduct a shooting battle , you have to survive a lot of artillery fire, a lot of fpv raids. and drop drones, that is, it's very difficult, and these battalion commands, these roth commanders, they were at the beginning of a full-scale invasion just personnel who were on a mission, and when they go up, they want to make the right decisions, and for example, in the national guard of ukraine, i want to say me personally, who, whom should i be afraid of, i.e. tomorrow the day after tomorrow. i will go to the battle line and i will be killed, if a guided aerial bomb dropped from a plane from the territory of the russian federation will not kill me, or i will be killed by an fp, or somewhere i will have to go on a reconnaissance and i will be killed there by some er arlan, who

will see me and kill me with an artillery system of krasnopole, that is, it can happen, and it can happen to anyone, to the brigade commander, because it is primarily these er... means that are found to destroy ksprigad to there was a loss of leadership, there are many competent battalion commanders and rod commanders, and, for example, in our unit, i do not see a critical situation there regarding incompetent commanders, because you know, the entire infrastructure of the national guard of ukraine, we are such a closed military formation with many functions , protection of important state facilities, patrolling of territories, etc. mass events attended by representatives of the national guard of ukraine. i want to say that i started my service in the 14th year in the 50th regiment, which is based on ivano-frankivsk region, and those military personnel who guard the burshtynsk tess or patrol the stations in ivano-frankivsk, they

fought for our independence six months ago in the serebliamtsk forest, and these sergeant commanders, they lost their comrades. they saw the enemy in the sights of their small arms, they destroyed him, and now they are back there on rotation, someone was wounded, they are now engaged in that patrol, and uh, i was very, well, to be honest, i was driving here, i was thinking about it, i was very i am proud that i am serving in national guard of ukraine, because from us, if servicemen or officers are transferred somewhere, then they are transferred either to the security service of ukraine or to the main intelligence department, because there are prospects there, someone understands that he is better at this or that. and we have our own academy that trains officers, and many officers and brigade commanders are sent to that academy with injuries, who later teach our future officers their experience, that is, this experience is analyzed and

the following processes take place, so in some directions, on very important directions, to that, for example, let's take the pokrovsky direction, to which all of it is chained... the attention of the ukrainian society there, we look, we are losing, as you said, that there is a very difficult situation, and it is also applied there units of the national guard of ukraine, and maybe somewhere... with some vision, he wants to improve the situation and goes down to the bottom of his seats there from kyiv and wants to help there, and you know, well, i hope that people who go down to that level and give instructions there, they want to help brigade commanders and battalion commanders conscientiously and from the bottom of their hearts, there are simply many situations and mr. korotevych steps up. regarding the release of sodol, and there are many others, as i

said, this is the same process as with corruption, that is, we are all people, military personnel, the armed forces, the national guard of ukraine, these are ordinary citizens who you can meet in the subway, in the cinema, in any coffee shop, or in the same coffee shop as we are sitting with you now, in short, some of them are unpleasant, this is normal, like ukrainian society, none of us are 100% cool, i just can't say that, i... i can afford it, but i totally understand what you're talking about, especially when we live in a world of total live air, sometimes its so much that it seems to us that all we see is, you know, all this is our planet, and it's everywhere, and it happens absolutely 100% like that, although we have to understand that journalists always tell individual stories that they can definitely indicate some trends, but that's what we're telling you about. about them, so that it does not turn into a trend, and okay, i really wanted to ask, you are

a hero of ukraine, but we were thinking about whether you should have received a gold star, right? it was such a situation, in june of the 22nd year, you know, there the day happened in such a way that if you survived until lunch, it's good, if you survived that day, it's generally chic, and looking at ... some material values, merits, i had personnel when i was called to the ksp of the rubizh tactical group, to report that there may or may not be there, the supreme commander in our ksp, and i want to present you with the title of hero of ukraine with the awarding of the gold star order, i say what gold star order, i have guys there in positions, i took some water, took food and went back to the platoon base, because there were constant assaults act, that's when. was, we were in the middle of the place of siverodonetsk, and the enemy wanted to destroy the bridges,

the enemy wanted to break through, that is, in any way there were constant air raids, constant artillery strikes, constant strikes by tanks, that is, armored groups that attacked just our platoon company strongholds, there are battalion lines of defense, it happened along the entire line of contact of ours in the settlement of severodonetsk, and i simply did not have time, i... i did not think about it, i had to return, just to get out of there from base of the base and get to the command post of the tactical group, it was necessary to carry out a special operation in which you could be killed, there you had to run under artistic fire, then you had to run under the fire of an enemy machine gun, that is, it was a very difficult situation, you had problems with logistics, problems with logistics, and taking into account all this, i simply did not see the expediency of presenting any awards at ... that stage of the conduct of hostilities by me personally, by my personnel, and it was

not important to me at all, that is, i have , i have an area for which i am responsible, and for me there were very important processes that were taking place, and i did not want to leave there for a minute or an hour, because i am leaving my staff, i am leaving the units on the left, on the right without intelligence information, that is, they were like that difficulties, and in my opinion there were many servicemen on that front who were more deserving of these. than me, and that's why i refused, said that i don't want to receive it, i'm going to my personnel, the brigade commander persuaded me, i didn't persuade, well, i communicated, caused psychological pressure on me due to my official duties, the commander of the tactical group , and my comrades, when they said, yes, commander, you are worthy, you must take, take everything, and then i stayed and got the rank, thank you for that, for what you got then, and for the fact that i for... is able to talk to you about this, in particular, and 8 hours at the start

of a large-scale invasion, gostomel - the importance of the airfield and understanding why the russians focused on it in such a way is not for anyone now, at least for people who are interested in our war, it's no secret that the russians needed this site in order to later land their military transport planes with everything they needed, and to build up the resource that should... occupy our capital, but this was avoided, thanks to you and your brothers, the first 8 hours in your other interviews you called decisive. and ukraine correctly took advantage of this time, mobilized, were there any other such peak moments for you during these 2.5 years that you at least saw for yourself, which we took advantage of and actually had certain lows, or

perhaps peak moments that we missed, you know , those eight... hours actually, as i 've said in past interviews, they were very important to our citizens, and a full-scale invasion began, like a war, uh, the enemy attacked us in the morning, by surprise, struck, and i understood that these our citizens can be armed all day long, there is the general headquarters, the national guard of ukraine can mobilize, plan and everything, we have, as military personnel, to fulfill their duty. to restrain the enemy, it is possible to die, and everyone in me was ready to die, we were then in the luhansk region, our part of the servicemen, the military unit was in gostomel, and these servicemen, you know, that was the unity between all the commanders, all the personnel of the defense forces and security of ukraine, so that everyone understands, now or never, the power of defense and security of ukraine, they

performed their function and withstood, restrained a colossal amount of hostility. of aviation, because serhii falatiuk was there, at the gostomil airfield, he shot down the helicopters that came in, and he was there with the soldiers of our military unit, they restrained the enemy, and this happened along our entire contact line and along the entire border with the russian federation, i.e. each commander completed these tasks, and you know, in the future there will be more i may not have felt a significant, more weighty social unity. for 2.5 years, then there was a path, you know, the path we were walking, there were obstacles somewhere, a certain number of military personnel, it is still united by this common opinion, which began at the beginning of a full-scale invasion, that is, this unity, and my personnel, the servicemen with whom i have met,

we continue to communicate, and no one is ready or willing to leave the defense forces and without... security, these are my fellow airborne assault forces, air forces, land forces troops, tank formations, intelligence units, the sbu, the band, that is, everyone, i know, i met many strong, worthy servicemen, servicemen of the defense forces of ukraine, and this unity still holds, there are situations that we took advantage of and that will be in the future, this , defense. the operation in kurshchyna, a situation that did not work out for us, is our counteroffensive in the south of ukraine, that is, you know, there are many such situations, and the situation of the greatest tragedy, and perhaps the greatest joy, can happen in a small area, let's take it there zaporozhye direction, any direction,

lyman direction, the greatest tragedy can happen when a bullet is fired by some... sister, it will be the greatest tragedy on our planet for the family, for our nation, for our state, because our a citizen who should live and advance our country into the future, into our prosperous future, and this situation is for many citizens, they are special, because that's when i was... you know, these situations are the most difficult when you attend a funeral or you are informed that someone died, and there was, recently we buried a scout from our military unit, yehor, and i handed over the flag with the words on behalf of the president of ukraine, the supreme commander-in-chief, i ask you to accept this

flag as a symbol of the state, which your son served faithfully and to the end, and when ... the mother just started sobbing and crying, and she accepts this flag, and she understands that our struggle continues, she lost her son, but she did not lose the country, and my voice holds me when i say this, she does not lost the country, and this unity, we still have it, and we unite in such difficult critical situations, and this critical situation is still with us , because as we talked with you at the beginning, when the enemy hits the publishing house and... in kharkiv, he destroys our books, he destroys our culture, when he hits institutes, when he hits schools, he wants to destroy our intellectual component so that we do not develop. but our citizens continue to print books in ukrainian, write poems, develop new means of rap, develop new uavs that can burn

warehouses in the depths of the russian federation, new citizens are also joining, who are carrying out a security operation in kurshchyna, er, the same ones who have already been fighting for 2.5 years, they are losing their health, and they are not going to the szz, and they will continue to fight in the pokrov direction. and we have enough strong citizens and enough strength and motivation to resist the russian federation in the future. thank you for this conversation. i will remind our viewers that we had the opportunity to talk with vitaly lytvyn, a hero of ukraine, an officer of the national guard of ukraine, the rubizh brigade, and we are very grateful to the institution, the read it bookstore, for giving us the opportunity to in such a slightly informal atmosphere to hold this very important for... conversation, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you to the espresso team, my name is khrystyna yatskiv, and before new meetings, discover

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greetings, it's news time on the air from the press. kateryna shiropoyas works in the studio. a historic decision that will bring the victory of ukraine closer. foreign minister andriy sebiga summed up his conversation with us secretary of state anthony blinken with these words. the ukrainian minister assured that the negotiations were productive, both sides analyzed volodymyr zelenskyi's visit to the usa and coordinated further steps.