on february 24, 2022, russia launched a special military operation in ukraine; the first major battle

of the company was the operation to return the city of mariupol under the control of the russian donbas .

for almost 3 months, alexander khodokovsky's units, assembled from donetsk volunteers, have been participating in battles on the mariupol front. it's not just from the boredom of conducting a special operation all these military actions. we understand that this has already happened in a situation where russia was simply driven to the wall and it was just necessary to take some position to cut this gordian knot. the fact that for the cities of the southeastern part of ukraine khodakovsky would have to fight seriously back

in 2014, when the protests on the kiev maidan turned into a real street war. in the very head of events, it seemed to me very important that all these external signs did not appear in donetsk, as we observed in kiev, that we radically differ from them, that everything that we proclaim everything that we do be the opposite, because we did and they proclaimed. in 2014, on the maidan, it already became clear that this is a benign tumor that has outgrown a malignant one and in the long run, except for the surgical method, you can’t cope in any way, the only question is that this cancer does not pass the already inoperable fourth stage. after

a violent change of power took place in ukraine, alexander khodokovsky returned to his native donetsk here, as in almost all russian-speaking regions of southeastern ukraine, people refused to recognize the new kiev authorities. on the maidan they liked to say that people went to the square to the maidan and the people. here decides so in the regions, the people also decided. we are the same people he also decided. we decided not to recognize you, because you are criminals, you carried out an unconstitutional coup d'état, armed with huge bloodshed, murders, and so on, and the fact that some yanukovych escaped somewhere does not change anything at all. in odessa, lugansk

, donetsk and mariupol, self-defense units begin to surrender. i'm like a man who just arrived from the maidan, i saw what a power there grouped accumulated and what threat this force carries. uh, i just mean these radicals who shot and killed law enforcement officers, it is clear that these are people who have a methodology of violence and murder, it is not clear what this phenomenon is. by all logic, it should have been thrown into the donbass because the donbass did not turn out to be insubordinate, it had to be ridiculed. people of russia which of you are my friends anton is probably the best

representatives of turkish society. i say that we are not ready, we need to gather forces. we need accumulate some kind of resource, because tomorrow we will have to fight with these radicals and they will try to break us. alexander khodakovsky's prediction came true within a few weeks , the first city to which the new kiev authorities sent armed former maidan defenders and army units became the most important industrial center of southern ukraine, the city of mariupol . fourteenth year. it didn't bother anyone. and now it suddenly turned out that the russian language is russian culture, russian history. this is a huge

threat to ukraine and the fight against the entire russian armed forces has begun. ukraine opened fire on the civilian population of mariupol on may 9, on this day, the inhabitants of the city traditionally celebrated the victory day. over fascism, no lethal weapons .

sit down to aim at people, i aim at people, machine guns, no. back in february 2014, the mariupol police went over to the side of the opponents of the new ukrainian authorities against them. kiev used military equipment fighting broke out behind the building in the city department of internal affairs. the guy rang, vyacheslav

said, olya, i'm seriously wounded, we are in the building of the central internal affairs directorate help get us out here, they are shooting us here, they are killing us. people walked around the technicians civilians are trying to help the militia of their native

militia. trying to help, someone else was kept from our militia. the wounded dead were lying on the ground. i can't name this event everything that happened. more than

90 percent came to the referendum and voted in support of the donetsk people's republic. but in further events developed more and more rapidly and swiftly. we in ukraine have the same germany forty- first year, only with the difference that germany was in europe and ukraine is at the side of russia. this is alarming. and here the methods of influence and the solution to this problem should be. very fast and tough otherwise. then be trouble. igor

khizhimzyanov, the first minister of defense of the donetsk people's republic in may 2014, during an armed clash with fighters of the ukrainian nationalist battalion azov, he was taken to captive, surrounded by kiev journalists, he was interrogated by the leader of the radical party of ukraine , deputy oleg lyashkova. and what is the people's donetsk republic? explain to me the citizens to spend in a cell for life prisoners you earned yourself for life sentences. it was important for them to make this all a demonstrative information field, as he proposed another victory for the ukrainian authorities. let's talk one on one. this pissed me off very seriously for myself. he then tried, then on the frames somewhere there is when he told me tries to pull out by the collar and then he then begins. i’m going to shoot you there,

damn it, now, when you try to escape, they poisoned them and took away your weapons and the organizer of the attack on the military unit, this is it, this is it, the satisfied part of mariupol let me call you back in 2014, ukrainian nationalists managed to suppress the popular uprising in mariupol and maintain control of the city. you are not afraid, allow. earth remembered these threats, the authorities used the next 8 years to turn into a city into a real fortress. in the first days after the elections i

came here. i said i give you my word. that 's why the thirty -sixth brigade, the marines, was relocated here, the fifty-sixth motorized brigade is standing nearby, the last 79th position of the 79th brigade. until now, mobile landing troops in order to protect later, these units were reinforced, in addition, mariupol was chosen as the main base for the nationalist regiment azov backbone which was made up of supporters of the idea of ​​the purity of the ukrainian race. her brother and i 16 years old joined the nationalist organization in the patriot of ukraine then was so called and sixteen years old my brother and i. well, they started such an active pro-ukrainian nationalist activity. we began to be more interested in the history of ukrainian culture, chatting with the ukrainian language, and just as we had training, we ourselves

would fight faster. well, all sorts of handling weapons and so on and so forth and now sixteen years. we were actively preparing for some kind of military or urban confrontation. to mariupol mariupol this is a home for gold, like a home when the battle for mariupol began, kiev relied on the militants of the ultranationalist regiment, azov weather, i order every fighter of the shows to fight to the last we will

destroy the russians in the air on the ground, militants of the azov regiment trained by nato instructors used a new tactic to not let the inhabitants out of the surrounded city to use them as. uh, take control. there was someone else left, she didn’t walk well, damn it, 86. we were shot with this, we need a sniper, we generally have they didn't even let the children warm the water. we were on the street somehow nothing the day before yesterday, when it was already we had already spent a day, hungry about the occasion, we also went from this division, and at that time,

in general, he was a tall gannik, they didn’t let him out of the entrance. they drove at night. they just drove at night, and they just smashed civilians. i live in the private sector. and so they drove up to our house, they didn’t start shooting anywhere. it's just that there was no one in russia, russia, or the dpr . well im just for some reason, well, need was to shoot at these houses. together with the russian military, ordinary residents of donbass also took part in the storming of mariupol, those who joined the ranks of the people's militia a few days before the start of the fighting, who is a miner, who are the guards a journalist? here is the press that all the drivers are there, i worked in moscow for 11 years. came home got a job the first day, 24.

thick cans will not look to look at the pixel, until everything is clear. yes, therefore, shooting and throwing grenades like that there in the film is even better or better with a machine gun or never means. no release don't worry, i'll find it. sit down so that you can't be seen, but you can see, understand? yes, i'm not telling you now for the future, you are a sniper, you will be the first to shoot. let's now shoot you through the console right under the shelling of yesterday's

civilians had to learn the tactics of urban battles. on the contrary , our allies are 44 years old and came from here. hiding behind

civilians, ukrainian troops turned hundreds of mariupol vorobey houses into strongholds, and we arrived somewhere from three directions and we have 300 furies. if they trample on this bridge, we will have three times more than 300.

we need to change theories somehow to find shelter. the azov militants stopped any attempts to evacuate, ukrainian war lilies were given to people fleeing the burning city. it turns out that they went out to them. they stood near the tank. a peasant was called by a woman who drove weightlifters there. so far, in short, he says ukrainians shot people , they put him in the yards, they are just in the yards. here in the five-story buildings. it’s just in these yards that people are put up, it’s like, yes, so that we don’t pile artillery there, i understand, because that civilians how much are we the third day in a row civilians are everywhere visible to shoot. for

those who liberated mariupol, the storming of each quarter also turned into an operation to evacuate civilians, and they provided medical assistance. where the guys hurt, we wanted to leave the war zone, we wanted to go somewhere far away, so the columns of two cars began to leave the first two cars of ours and another just without warning. they said shoot the snipers. demonstration hit two on her shot to her mother and my youngest child also had a car traced a

leg indicatively go back, and we went back. he has a car full of five children three children two girls the most he opened the door. guys children don't shoot, and that's how i flashed it. well wife. he 's head while there, let's go faster, journalists working in mariupol know thousands of similar stories, the war correspondent on this fredrikson was one of the first to be able to communicate with the residents of the recently liberated quarter of mariupol. x, the elderly

leaves me, she did not climb. she is so for i pulled the sleeve in the yard. i can't watch it. please do something. yes, some mariupol residents buried right in the yards, and we have already seen these graves. it was a witness that the disgrace shot an innocent man, a 21-year-old guy, because he had correspondence with his grandmother in russia. they simply took him away. fuck him the next morning too. we conceived it, just

shot it. where are the products taken from? we stocked up when they said war, now i don’t know. there's just people who don't have insulin, in whom bronchial asthma is breathing this dust, the reactions went very difficult. many have already begun to get sick in children with a temperature of 39. and here, you know, everyone has relatives in russia,

roll up, show them , with the start of hostilities , volunteers are involved in the evacuation of the inhabitants of mariupol. among them is a donetsk poetess. anna dolgareva people need water in basements. light, no, every day, she makes her flights from donetsk to the wounded, mariupol anna

is well aware of each such attempt. it might be her last. we arrive at the courtyard asked to check the people in the basement. i'm going, so this basement comes out to me. what well, the sniper works, but i think he works somewhere, but not for me, but for me to work. just an assault group, apparently from the dpr, with such eyes, he says, guys, what are you doing here? there is generally a closed zone here, the battle is on. the sniper is working. get out of here. it suddenly turned out that the russian language, russian culture, russian history. this is a huge threat to ukraine in society , tendencies have quickly developed such that with these people of the donetsk luhansk region, there is

nothing to talk with them at all. i punish every palkuz killer. we seem to be from the russians. they didn’t launch us, they shot for these snipers, and i want to tell lucy to zelensky that they didn’t want to decide to destroy us, where there were positions of the nazis, there houses were burned down, because they literally worked in apartments. not russia fired. they fired at us, as they said, we are mariupol in ukraine, and that's how it turned out. we are the same people. he also decided. we have decided not to recognize you because you are criminals. different epochs

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dolgorev bring food to the city, and on the way back they go in her car those who have no strength left to live in the ruined mariupol, we also have a family. we then went crazy there, children , parents and grandfather with them, in short, and grandfather yells he’s just swearing, because a ukrainian sniper just shot him in the leg, and he knows

where this ukrainian sniper azovsky is sitting there, he says, i walked past him all the time. and now he should have known me, and now he says, i just went for water, and he shot me in the leg. the grandmothers of mariupol were unwitting witnesses of the terrible battles for the city ; which apartment is 10?

the package is still being distributed. let me try to speak where. thank you. god thank god thank you. tamara for tamara's grandmother, this assault on mariupol is the second in her life, when tamara was still a child. she had to endure the horrors of the great patriotic war. she did not think that after 80 years she would see how the now ukrainian military would use the technology of the nazis to shoot from behind the backs of civilians and that she would again be grateful for the salvation of russian

soldiers. since the age of 5 i have been praying to god, the lord has guessed. i thought i would at least put a little bit. 80 years left to live here, they let us live a little bit already just a few days left here. what is it? i don't understand, it's very hard. it's very hard for you to do everything cool on yourself. well, black ones. i'll even show you on the street.

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that's it, no one else is there, all the apartments are cleared by machine gunners. the soldiers took yes began. well, show me what's up with you early? he was bent over like this, he couldn't straighten up. i won't show, so i'm fine. i don't need to write there. well, as it were, and you will transfer there, as i tie it, back and forth. is that right?

show me. here's how to unfasten it. you know, that's all was, he was all in the zone, everything came through the forest for him, like they opened it. i tell you tv. he was jumping tvs from the window, that people had them all reaching out, hatylochka cartridges. opa tablet marauders in general dots are cute, i love you very much, i will show you in

such conditions. in the spring of 2022, many residents of mariupol remembered how 8 years ago one of the leaders of the protests on the maidan, petro poroshenko , who, shortly before the visit, became the president of ukraine, came to the city, then he understood that to keep the russian-speaking territory of the southeast. as part of countries can only use punitive methods, i can emphasize that glory about the city of mariupol or whose inhabitants defend the city with such enthusiasm today goes around the world shots when the inhabitants of the city shot themselves holding the ukrainian flag and protect their city with a human shield know the meaning of these words in every corner of the globe about

protecting the city with a human shield people. got it just now. we met one civilian yesterday, he says dill drove. not released. and in the yards in general, well, our colleagues on the left were walking a little ahead. they kicked out under the machine guns themselves too civilians were telling and saying, wait. well , so that the boys do not dooley not from the pipe there, understand? yes? don't darling didn't lie down. so these are the warriors with us in 2014, mariupol and the entire donbass in kiev were perceived as not loyal territory on state television channels openly offered to fight the separatist sentiments of the inhabitants of the region in the most radical ways. well, the prices, it’s just that you understand that it’s not just a depressed region, there, no matter how hard it sounds, there is

a certain number of people who just need to kill. damn i have too damn my cat is a pity to take away in society very quickly developed that with these people in the donetsk luhansk region, in general, to talk to them. nothing. they are kind of dirty. it was just born back in the fourteenth year. the brutality of the nationalists, the locals simply explain in 2015 the militia of donbass from hitting the offensive of the ukrainian army and went on the

counteroffensive the front line, then it turned out to be literally 15 km from mariupol wait, i'm 200 there shello bent a bunch. it was at this moment that the minsk agreements on the withdrawal of heavy weapons were signed. these agreements allowed kiev to maintain control over the city for a long 8 years. you

just need to take off the branches and put yourself in a basket in my pain, because we know that all the ships available there with all kinds of documentation of the civilian military specialty service have already departed from the commercial port of mariupol. it doesn’t matter even there a pleasure boat, the salon was loaded by the local administration, was preparing for departure. that is, in fact, the city was surrendering now, we are conquering this city, well, with great effort and considerable effort. today, the militia complains, that in vain they believed in the peace assurance of ukraine and took control. mariupol back in 2015.

in may 2019, vladimir zelensky, having promised to stop the bloodshed in donbass, defeated petro poroshenko in the fight for the presidency of ukraine. well , almost immediately after his election, he changed his rhetoric and started talking about withdrawing from the minsk agreements. because to regard the pro-points, the minsk minsk agreements. i am dissatisfied with all points from this from the moment nato military specialists began intensive training of the ukrainian army, the americans began ukrainian military exercises for the upcoming war, all ibris 20-2161.

we are waiting for the fighters in ukraine even before the start of the active combat phase. azov were ready to sacrifice the civilian population of the city in order to maintain control over mariupol. there are people who support the occupation. yes, if we press, well, they are called separatists from the american word for separation. yes , the department and well, those people who support such a company. well, these are the criminals who you need to name them, and those people who are the highest citizens, then, well, they should be treated, what if there is such a moral authority that they like how they live there, there is no bank there, no banks work. there stupidly the soviet union of the worst times and well, how can you treat them, they

chose this, well, now they are suffering. today, this approach has resulted in the deaths of thousands of civilians on both sides of the front line. can lensky really allow this, after all, everything could have been decided humanly. o scoundrel decided to destroy us. are you guys thank you? thank you, you are us let's go if it weren't for you, we wouldn't be here. you will be in place of hussein, they all fired at us, not russia fired, as he said. we are mariupol in

ruins. it did so. now they want to show that they are defending ukraine ukraine is here now. at the very end of metallurgists avenue. these black contours are just the blast furnace shop, the ilyich plant. i worked there for 8 years, this is our first job. well, day and night, it worked in shifts constantly climbed everywhere. journalist pavel chuprina is one of those who have been unsuccessfully trying to convey to the world for 8 years

the truth about the horrors of the civil war in ukraine i understand that no one will broadcast it, but i still filmed it all and tried to make it all somehow bigger. i understood that this is our story. and every time i come to a similar shelling. well , yes, i try, as close as possible, as densely as possible , to show what is really happening here. that's what is happening here. to see once, than to hear a hundred times, yes, to have a war, war is to shoot today pavel returns again to the city that he left 8 years ago, he wants with his own eyes see what remains of his former life, which in 2014 changed forever. well, in

principle, you can evaluate from here. the state of the city. as far as destroyed, as far as the whole, of course, there is a lot of destruction among the high-rise buildings of the roof, upper floors and burnt ones are destroyed. but inside the yards. there are whole districts there. there are nine-story buildings, you can see that you and the private sector. bandages and said that we are now going to take the fight. well, they jumped out and left and that's it. they ran him to tennis, but they hid there in the basements and did not take him away. products are nothing. now your guys said free road. go to the church, and we decided to

find out, only there is more with me. can we at least have steps there, it’s generally indicative where the nazi positions were, there houses burned down, because they worked literally from apartment to window, where there were no positions. here are the buildings of the university, the philharmonic society, everything is intact, even practically not a single arrival, nothing. the situation dictates itself and determines the degree of destruction of any building. it depends solely on the degree of resistance enemy. we wait. waiting you have to go into the building. you

have to beat the enemy out of the building to walk along some corridors with a personal span, where he feels great. and we don’t know where he placed the streamers, and where he mined it anywhere. he himself, as a matter of fact, is located and by what means he will meet us, we absolutely do not understand this. we listen carefully to what needs to be done in the nine-story building, when you enter the entrances we don’t need to wrap ourselves. there's a fight with them from above, we smoke from below, therefore, we need to know. which floor put a stretch on the ladder rollback from the tank, we go in, again the resistance of the rollback tank comes in clear will show. not you, there, lie down the boys

on the stairs as a commander. today, mariupol is getting used to peaceful life again, the city is recovering after almost three months of fighting. here, everyone is looking for something, someone is looking for new housing, someone is looking for food and water from their lost relatives and friends. whose salvation stories are alike . great. here is the infection, of course, the infection

did not enter. well, what is it march 15 went down to the basement the next day? how the hell are we going out there at home, they say, something again, well, every day something caught fire. the main tasks have come for you to have time to pack up and

leave the city before dark. hello let's be a dandelion, she will be able to go down, no, she will have to be lowered. we have men later. ofiget she will be able to mothers home. now let's go to makiivka to swallow glad. she has been asking the family for a terrible time for the third day. the battle for mariupol

is a thing of the past. they go to relatives in the relatively calm makeevka, which all these for years, the forces of the people's militia of donbass have been defending themselves there, waiting for them. first shower in 3 months and peaceful sleep in a warm bed. hello hello scary. i imagine that

they will dream that night of fighting on the streets of their native city or the militias who came to liberate their homes, or maybe a new world that comes to the land of donbass, tormented by 8 years of the civil war, no matter how difficult it is for us was given. now this idea is to be implemented. anyway, i am sure that we will finish this situation to the end and come to victory. before later at the cost of those efforts, at any cost of other efforts, but still we will achieve our goal. well, i'll say, so the victory that went to some significant price, and it is more appreciated. on may 16, 2022,

representatives of the azov regiment with a white flag and consent to surrender came out to the fighters of the division of alexander khodakovsky, who stormed the last stronghold of the ukrainian troops of the catacomb of the azovstal plant. the battle for mariupol lasted almost 3 months.

five people were killed and 15, including two children , were injured in apparent strikes on donetsk from the side of the ukrainian security forces all day, the city was again subjected to heavy shelling, the central regions were reportedly damaged, large-scale destruction at the plant then