not doing enough is still possible six months ago, many figures, military and political leadership, ordinary ordinary citizens, began to simply relax. for many, this war has become somewhere far away, that is, we mobilize when we hear sirens outside the window, the danger of missiles, and this when it directly affects those citizens who are in the rear borders, by the way, i wrote a post about pickup trucks, which in front-line cities, that is, when, you know, the city falls asleep, in kyiv, there is a curfew, no one drives here, kramatorsk, slovyansk, kharkiv, zaporizhzhia, in sumy region, these cities, they are coming to life, and hundreds, thousands of small pickup trucks, yes, yes, i wanted to say, but i hold back, people in pixels are waking up, you know. pickup trucks, still in some kind

of camouflage, and these pickup trucks start driving, and they drive at a very crazy speed, many of them drive without headlights, they move, they transport personnel, they transport material and technical values, they take out artillery in a firing position, that is, it begins combat work, it was during the day, the enemy understands this, inflicts artillery strikes and the war does not stop for a minute, that is, when in some cities the siren stops and comes. about the selection of the missile threat, this process is continuous there, that is, our citizens, as they die at this minute at 10:22, they also die at 10:22 p.m., that is, this process is continuous, and regarding these recent public speeches that someone left the szz, he gives an interview, he flaunts that he left the szz, thus... this

serviceman, this citizen, he leaves his comrades, that is, his work should be done even more by someone else, and you know, in maybe his commander is to blame for him leaving, and the brigade commander, the commander of the military formation, the office of the president, the president, the entire command, and every citizen that we brought this person to such a situation are also to blame, are objective, subjective reasons, which must also be taken into account and... the situation, it is individual, but also the pso of the russian federation, and in general all the propaganda, and the federal security service of the russian federation, it is aimed at such situations in order to make a split, to split unite our society, as we said, talked to you about the studio recordings and the separation of the military and civilians into two parts, so that there would be some precedents, between them tsk and sp, and... i am very sorry when we

see videos, youtube shorts, reels on instagram, a video on tiktok , where they somehow humiliate a serviceman there in the tsc, yes, there are some cases where they are unworthy to serve there, where they communicate there, and they do not communicate correctly, but there is an acquaintance of mine in the buchansk tsc tsc, who served as a paratrooper in the assault troops, he received injuries and he is unfit for... passage service in the airborne assault troops, he was sent to serve in the tcc of the tsp, he faithfully fulfills his duties, and when they show some videos, i understand that it is the ipso of the russian federation, and then you go to those comments, read and there you go the situation is simply unclear, what is being done, there are many bots, some of the citizens of ukraine are trying to do this, they are picking it up, many military personnel are posting it on their pages in social networks, and they are spreading this idea of ​​separation. of the ukrainian state and

citizens, and such situations are a precedent to what we don't actually do enough, maybe as a management officer i don't communicate enough with certain categories of personnel and i don't convey this information to them, but there are subjective, objective reasons for that, because i have to do a lot more work, because certain positions in our unit are not filled, as i once said, remembering my fallen comrades. and i was so very angry then, because he was the chief sergeant of the sniper company and he went out as a sniper in the position, and if in our army there was a sufficient number of military personnel, uav operators, gunners, snipers, he would not have been there, and someone says, someone would have died, another, no one would have died, because there were more uav operators, there were more infantrymen, there would be more fire support groups, and they would be able to discover the firearm that came there earlier.

to destroy it ahead of time, that is, everything works in the system, and to say that somewhere just now such a situation, my comrades, with whom i passed before the slu, turned to me. they went to szz, they called me, they explain situation, they say, i need your advice, i don’t care, i’ve posted my personnel around the houses, we want to continue to defend the country, that’s what we want, we strive, some of them have already received injuries and they will continue to return to the service, and you know, it can be a problem when the personnel runs away from the commander in some necom'. but there are times when they are running away from the situation, that is, somewhere on the line of hostilities, there is some kind of difficult situation, and people just want to run away from it, and they need to understand when you leave this positions, you leave your brothers alone from this situation, who have character and

they continue to hold weapons in their hands, and in fact the nw, well now it is a lot of hearsay, but it is well in my military bubble, it is a small percentage of people who go . these are people with whom certain situations have not been discussed, people who fled from explosions, did not control their psycho-emotional state there, that is, i said that unit commanders, they should also be psychologists, they should have a high level of emotional intelligence equal to to understand the processes that are taking place in their personnel, who can escape, you need to talk with him about this situation and explain it more thoroughly, you just know, soldiers, they come, commanders of departments, commanders... of infantry, they see the situation very narrowly, the battalion commander, he already sees it for the battalion on the right, the battalion on the left, the brigade commander sees the situation , the brigade is on the right, the brigade is on the left, and that is , it is necessary that our citizens, our servicemen understand that they see the situation that they need, and here we consider

on this, i was the commander of a reconnaissance platoon, and when two reconnaissance groups are deployed in parallel for a task, they do not know the task of each other group. because if one of them gets captured, god forbid, he can tell about the task of another group that is doing the task in parallel, that is, there are many safeguards to avoid this, because this is war, that's how people die, people get captured, and we understand this, and when we join the army, and when we will be united, not separated by the russian federation, by some misunderstanding situation, then we will be effective when we go to the army, we join well... now recruiting is taking place in our unit , the third assault, 58th, 28th, 54th brigade, a separate artillery brigade, that is, you can apply to come immediately, for example to a separate artillery brigade, you say: i want to be an artilleryman, that's all, we take you, you become an artilleryman, that is, you have to do it when, not

when you were stopped by the tsk, taken away, you went to the bzvp, passed, got to some stranger team, that is, now many recruiting centers, that is... military personnel, brigade commanders engage in recruiting, personnel recruitment, and i am saying this about the national guard of ukraine, because a serviceman of the national guard of ukraine, these processes take place constantly in our armed forces, they are the same, we see big boards happening, and the military is working on it 120%, some are there 150, are engaged, hr, pr, all these buzzwords i learned during the large-scale invasion, because we have to advertise, recruit personnel, we are already, you know, business projects, we are a stupid brigade - this is a company that provides certain services for the state, this is how you hunt for personnel, this is how we collect personnel for ourselves, we transfer from other

parts, you know, somewhere there we go to another brigade, come on, we are better there, our borscht is redder than yours, that’s how we recruit personnel, and you know, maybe someone there is in the military and political leadership, you are considering what someone is doing somewhere, some deputies are getting money, construction , and now many unfortunate situations are happening, speculative situations, such are the last two situations, these are ternopil-ivano-frankivsk regarding the construction of rehabilitation centers for veterans, but in ternopil, as i know, they built a residential complex, in ivano-frankivsk they want to build a rehabilitation center, but the rehabilitation center from the constructed building will be 25%, everything else will be commerce, i.e. certain citizens are already speculating about veterans, military personnel in order to get some profit, and these situations will arise, we can see the ukrainian truth, bigus,

others, there is butusov plus, espresso, all other zmi, some independent zmi there, they highlight situations. corruption schemes, some untrustworthy citizens who flee abroad, who are now detained there, and this will continue, these are normal processes for a state in which there is a war. which is engaged in the struggle for independence, and if you take the percentage ratio, there are corruption schemes there, and i communicated with certain categories of people, officials, that now there is corruption in the ministry of defense, in the ministry of internal affairs, i.e. in law enforcement agencies, is the smallest in the entire history of ukraine's independence. when some precedents arise and the mass media cover them, it shows the capacity of the media, the influence of the media in... 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 capability, and then it the state and the leadership of our state takes some leverage, or removes someone, or you already know that, or does not take it, and now maybe it will be superfluous, let's talk about the situation when dmytruk escaped and the supreme commander initiated a meeting about it. from this situation that in two weeks there will be some kind of decision, uh, when it was, a month and a half ago, yes, in my opinion, maybe these decisions were made, but they were not made public, that is, i am talking about the fact that now we all need to communicate with each other, i, as a commander with personnel, the military and political leadership with the military, my subordinates with my citizens, also need feedback, arose some situation, it must be discussed. decision and not to distribute it, someone can say that this is secret information, i understand all this, but

you can say that we have made a decision, processes are now underway to improve this situation, we have gone deeper, and there is a minister or deputy minister, because the minister can be on some trips, to improve our influence there on the international arena, i understand all this, there are spokesmen, there are press officers who can communicate this with the citizens and with the military personnel of their country so that... this situation is not hushed up and the heat of these of this situation, and the russian federation did not use it, that is, any situation, whether it is the szch, a serviceman who left and flaunted it, or it is dmytruk who escaped, all this must be communicated and explained to every citizen that we see these processes, they occur, and the fact that it does not affect further precedents there on an arbitrary basis. parts, we consider why he left, how we can analyze this situation, how

we can improve it and what will not affect it in the future. commanders, i can say teams of units 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 can take from it... the situation that arose, how we can improve it, and so that it does not happen in the future. you are currently drawing a portrait of an ideal commander of any rank, in fact, that is, the importance of knowing and understanding what is happening in the heads and souls of subordinates, and from that to build and the strategy of how you deal with these people, because you spend most of your life with them now, but i would also like to point out that... well, unfortunately, not always as of now, at least the teams are different, let's

call it general , but with integrity, right? 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 there, and it is also a normal manifestation of war, especially of such crazy intensity. actually, at the beginning of a large-scale invasion, our... above the military command of the european union was characterized by the fact that it allowed commanders on the ground of various branches 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, or is it now? and isn't there, let's say, a reverse process, when the commanders... maybe they are hostages of the old school, let's call it that, and somewhere they are afraid

to raise the problematic issues of their unit to the mountain , which they, relatively speaking, now lead, or are in general we have a problem of commanders, as of now in ukrainian army? you know, the problem of commanders, this is the question of whether we have... now the commanders, they are the same age as me, the battalion commanders who directly make decisions on the battlefield, there are older ones, there are younger ones, this right now about combatants. uh, on the battlefield, decisions must be made very quickly, as you rightly say, they can be wrong, because the intensity of combat operations is very high, the enemy uses a large number of its reconnaissance means, military weapons and equipment and a large amount of ammunition and a large number of personnel who carry out assault operations, is a battalion commander with

a company commander who is working, they make decisions at their level, that is, the commander... dedicated fire assets that are part of the battalion tactical group there or simply to a line battalion, and they make decisions there when to introduce reserves, what means to use, the command posts at their level use their fire means, their reserves, that is, it happens because, for example, we take battalion commanders there from our military unit, the border offensive guard brigade, they all passed the rank, if not the platoon commander, then maybe they were on... even were sergeants, the commander was a sergeant, they performed tasks, they were riflemen, grenade launchers, machine gunners, and they are more promising, they then have a career ladder that allows them to, and they are the ones who have created a commander, a commander, they go to the command of battalions, they understand how these processes take place from below, these teams understand how scary it is to be in the trenches, 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 do not see the enemy, you just sit down and you're so much more, you know, on some subconscious level it's calmer, but when you realize that if you don't do it, they'll come and kill you, or take you prisoner, or kill your brothers, and you you do it, you are afraid, you do it, and you understand, you see the enemy, you enter into it in a gunfight, you destroy it and you know it, a gunfight now sounds very even vkay. this is for me personally and 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 drones with a skid, that is, it is very difficult, and these battalion teams, these roth commanders, they were at the beginning of a full-scale invasion just personnel a staff that performed tasks, and when they rise, they want to make

the right decisions, and for example, on the national guard. i want to say me personally, who, who should i be afraid of, i.e. tomorrow or the day after tomorrow i will go to the line of combat collision and me, if i am not killed by a guided aerial bomb dropped from a plane from the territory of the russian federation, or i am killed by an fp, or somewhere it will be necessary to go out for reconinvestment and i will be killed there by some arlan, who will see me and be killed by an artillery system. that is, it can happen, and it can happen to anyone, to the brigade commander, because it is primarily these means that reveal the destruction of ksprigada, so that there is a loss of leadership, is many battalion commanders, competent 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, and its mass events, which are also 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 in ivano-frankivsk region, and those military personnel guarding burshtynska tes or patrolling the stations in ivano-frankivsk, six months ago they fought with... for our independence in the serebliam forest, and these teams of sergeant soldiers, they lost their comrades, they saw the enemy in the crosshairs of their rifle weapons, they were destroying it, and now they're back on rotation there, somebody got hurt, they 're doing that patrol now, and uh, i'm very, well, to be honest, i was driving here, thinking about it, i'm very proud that i'm in the service in

of the 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 agency, because there are prospects there, someone understands that he is better at this or that in that way, and we have our own academy that trains officers, and many officers and brigade commanders are sent to that academy with injuries, who will later teach our future officers their experience, that is, this experience is analyzed and the following processes take place, so on some... directions, on very important directions, there, for example, take the pokrovsky direction, to which all the attention of the ukrainian society is attached, we look, we lose. as you said, the situation there is very difficult, and units of the national guard of ukraine are also deployed there, and maybe someone with some vision wants

to improve the situation and descends to the bottom of his seats there from kyiv and wants to help there, and you know, well, i hope in because the people who go down to that level and give instructions there to brigade commanders, commanders battalions, they... and they want to help from the bottom of their hearts, there are simply many situations and mr. krotevych raises the issue of 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 whom you can meet in the subway, in a movie theater, in any coffee shop, because in the same coffee shop as we are sitting with you now. in short, some of them are unpleasant, this is normal, as ukrainian society, none of us is 100% cool, i just can't say it, i can, i can, i will, but yes, i understand what you are talking about

absolutely, especially when we live in a world of total direct ether, sometimes there is so much of it that it seems to us that everything, what we see is, you know, all this is our planet, and it is everywhere, and this is how it happens absolutely 100%, although... understand that journalists always tell individual stories, which can definitely indicate some trends, but for that's why we tell about them so that it doesn't turn into a trend, but okay, i actually wanted to ask, you hero of ukraine, but we were thinking about whether you should have taken the gold star, right? that was the situation in june of '22, you know, there... the day happened in such a way that if you survived until lunch, it's good, if you survived the day, it's generally chic, and looking at some material values,

merit , i had personnel when i was called to the ksp, the rubizh tactical group, to inform that there may or may not be there, the supreme commander in our ksp, and i want to award you the title of hero of ukraine with the awarding of the golden star order. i say, what is the order of the gold star? i have guys in positions there, in short, i took some water, took food and went back to the platoon base, because there were constant assault patrols, it was then, we were in the middle of the siverodonetsk area, 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, by armored groups, which attacked simply our platoon company strongholds there... the lines of defense, it happened all over the contact line of our severodonetsk point, and i simply did not have time, i did not think about it, i had to return, just

to leave the platoon of the support point and get to the command post of the tactical group, it was necessary to work out a special operation in which you could kill, there you had to run under artillery fire, then you had to run over under enemy machine gun fire, that is, it was a very difficult situation. you had logistical problems, logistical problems, and with all that, i just didn't see the expediency of handing out some awards at that stage of hostilities by me personally, my personnel, 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 took place , and i didn't want to leave there for a minute or an hour, because i'm leaving my personnel, i'm leaving units on the left, on the right without a reconnaissance unit. this, that is, such were the difficulties, and in my opinion, there were many servicemen on that front, who are more deserved this award more than i did, 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, he didn't persuade me, but he communicated, caused psychological pressure on me due to my official duties in tongues, 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 title, thank you for that, for what you got then, and for the fact that i now have the opportunity to talk to you about it, in particular, and 8 hours at the start of the large-scale invasion of gostomel, the importance of the airfield and the understanding of why the russians focused on it in such a way are not for anyone now, well, at least for people who are interested in our war, it is no secret that the russians needed this... in order to besiege in the future your military transport planes with everything you need and already working up the resource that should have occupied our

capital, and... this was avoided thanks to you and your comrades, the first 8 hours in your other interviews you called decisive, and ukraine made the right use 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 n fruits, or perhaps peak moments that we missed. you know, these 8 hours, in fact, as i said in past interviews, they were very important for our citizens, and a full-scale invasion began like a war, the enemy attacked us in the morning, from yunatsk, struck, and i understood that our citizens can have soldiers all day long, there... general

headquarters, the directorate of 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 military personnel, the military part was in gostomel, and these military personnel, you know, it is like this there was unity among all commanders and all personnel of the defense and security forces of ukraine, so that everyone understood, now or never. and the defense and security forces of ukraine, they performed their function and held out, restrained a colossal amount of enemy aircraft, because serhii falatiuk was there, at the hustomil airfield, he shot down helicopters that came in, and he was there with the soldiers of our military unit, they restrained the enemy, and this happened all over our along the contact line and along the entire border with the russian federation, that is, every commander fulfilled these tasks, and you know, in the future, such a...

more significant, more weighty, social unity, which i may not have felt for 2.5 years, then there was way, you know, the path we followed, er, there were obstacles somewhere, a certain number of military personnel, it is still united by this common thought, er, which began at the beginning of a full-scale invasion, that is, this unity, and my personnel from... military personnel with whom i met, we continue to communicate, and no one is ready or willing to leave the defense and security forces, these are my fellow airborne assault troops, air forces, ground forces, tank formations, intelligence units, sbu, band , that is, everyone i know has 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 happen in the future, this is the defensive operation in kurshchyna, er, the situation that did not work out for us, this 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 maybe the greatest joy, it can happen on a small scale, let’s take the zaporizhia direction there, any direction, the lyman direction, the biggest tragedy can to happen when a bullet fired by some russian soldier kills someone's son, someone's daughter, or his father, someone's sister, it will be the greatest tragedy on our planet, for the family, for our nation, for our state, because he died our citizen, who should live and advance our country into the future, into

our prosperous future and... and this situation they are for many citizens, they are special, because that's when i was, you know, such situations are the most difficult, when you attend funerals, or you are informed that someone died, and it was recently we hid a scout from our military unit, yehor, and i presented the flag with 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 country that 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 her country, and my voice is holding me when i say this, she did not lose her country, and this unity is still with us.