the highway that leads to the izvarino checkpoint. our first positions were on these heights. this road was constantly controlled by the enemy. and a lot of civilians died on this highway. they shot at civilian cars. and then they did not let evacuation groups get close to get the wounded. horrible crimes against humanity were committed in these places and during.

no compassion, no pity and in such a savage way children were executed. then donbass was reconquered by the grandfathers of today's servicemen. after the shelling of civilians cities in the fourteenth podruzh'ev have already become grandchildren and great-grandchildren of the heroes of the great patriotic war. oh, son , hi, glad to see you, how are you? oh, he passed away on june 22 , 2014, he came with his friend, we worked together at the mine, and you know what he told me, he told me, mom, who, if not us, it seemed to me, i had heard this phrase before, well , somehow, you know, i didn't attach much importance to it, yes, like that... the fate of men,

to defend the homeland, there, to defend their family, then he tells me, mom, well, how do you imagine, here i am, staying at home, my grandfather fought, was in the battle of stalingrad, was a tank driver, the second grandfather, left at 16, was taken into the army, they thought that the war with japan would start in the far east, the marines, so he says, i am their... grandson and will sit at home, but i will be ashamed to come and bow to their graves, well , what cried, cried, kissed, crossed, well, went to fight, 10 years of unrest, 10 days of waiting, every day you pray to god to save, then people of different professions went to the militia, almost no one had military experience, in civilian life i had... many different

specialties, professions, i worked in a mine, as a private entrepreneur, a logistics manager, that is, my working career is quite diverse, i graduated from the gorlovka institute of foreign languages, the french language department, so you are french, yes, that is why, yes, my frenchman is a frenchman, the events of may 2 in odessa, when people were burned in the trade union house, naturally. raised the people here in donbass, we understood that the day would come when the war and these nazis would get to donbass, well, so later it happened happened, well, in the fourteenth year, of course, the ukrainian army was a little different, it didn’t have everything that it has now, but at that time they had tanks, infantry fighting vehicles, armored personnel carriers, we didn’t have any of that yet, but that didn’t scare us in any way, we fought with tanks from...

armored personnel carriers, there were, of course, hunting weapons, yes, whoever had what, whoever came with whom, whoever had nothing, already used trophies, we drew knowledge from textbooks about the great patriotic war, also with us were guys who went through the war in afghanistan, also very experienced, literate in military terms. and also improvised, came up with something new, something of our own, we came up with a mine trap here, now we will pass a narrow place, in case of the passage of ukrainian military columns, it is here to block them and not allow further advancement in the direction of the city of krasnodom, there is no room for maneuver here, there are enemies and hills, so we were ready to meet the enemy here,

10 years ago, it was in this place that our militia battalion accepted the first battle, here it was at this fork in the road towards lugansk airport that the enemy was developing an offensive, of course we knew that he would come out on this section of the road and were ready to meet him, we went out in two platoons, took here

... man, of our losses we had two wounded, one seriously wounded, one lightly, no one chickened out, no one retreated, but we expected that there would be another onslaught, so we went down, reloaded and moved out again to our positions, we kept watch here the whole night, but the enemy never woke up, to take any action, this is already quite a long time, as you can see, the fields are planted in the sun, in the village people live calmly, peacefully, therefore we are still in the ranks, with weapons in our hands, defending our

rights, our freedom, a day after the end of this battle, and the enemy began mortar shelling -

it was created installed by the forces of the residents of this settlement, i have a daughter of 28 years old and i have a son who is 8 years old, he will go to the second grade, whenever possible i regularly call, communicate with my son, he also considers himself military, since his father is a military man, then he is a military man, of course, also a defender to grow up, of course. and what does he say? he says, win quickly, come back home, and we will live in a happy family. now the frenchman is a commander with ten years of experience, over all these years he has accepted into

the fighting family all the new youth who entered the fight for the homeland upon reaching adulthood. you know, young people are very worthy, really, who were brought up in our... best traditions, where there is faith, justice, where there is a military brotherhood, they, honestly i will say, are worthy fighters of any unit, so i will not say that the younger a person is, the weaker his spirit is there, no, there is no such thing, we are all of the same faith, the same blood, fighting for our homeland. a serviceman with the call sign guarantor joined the defense of the homeland in the sixteenth year, since 2014 he remained on his no less important front. at that time, i continued to study, and i taught children in already at that

time i taught folk dances, in a group. therefore, i was engaged in culture. and this was not our spontaneous decision, the school was equipped with bomb shelters, respectively, the halls were closed, there were no windows, at that time they had already started to give light in months we began to resume our training, schools, students, well, they didn’t know until the last moment that i had gone into the army, i just didn’t say that i was going into the army, i just said that i was changing jobs. that’s all, the children still loved me, they said goodbye with tears in their eyes, and only then, over time, they found out

that i was in the army, and people, parents, even children, wrote on vkontakte, called, just asked how you were doing, regularly, even still happen, they write, i answer when possible, parents, on the contrary, only support and help in this, parents... treated this issue absolutely adequately, because i believe that an adult man at that time, i already considered myself a full-fledged man, since i could teach, convey something to children, made my conscious choice. garaant recalls, from the first day he was surprised by the policy of the ukrainian authorities, he understood that the people of his native donbass needed to be protected from them. to settle the conflict by armed means against his own people, it's very stupid. "no people will want to return to ukraine when

, accordingly, weapons and some heavy equipment, artillery and everything else begin to be used against civilians, this certainly influenced my choice, because, because you need to defend your country, at that time, well, everyone knows the fact, we were not part of russia, we had.

a 13-year-old girl, katya, she always walked with her grandmother, she was not afraid, for some reason, like a child, but she was not afraid of shelling, although it was dangerous there, you could, well, not reach your home, and we always accompanied them forward, well, we didn’t know that they would come, we always accompanied them back, we gave them some kind of gifts, so they come on the same day. i don’t remember exactly what date it was now, but grandma comes up to us and says: can i

please ask you for some buckwheat, it’s just that today is katya’s birthday, and the child really loves buckwheat, and well, you understand, it’s not like she needs candy, a girl, not a cake, but just some bitterness, of course, we shared, then i had one and i don't... i remember a long time ago, well, how long ago, a chocolate bar was lying around for about a month, it was as if it had been waiting for this moment, and it so happened that the gift from me was a chocolate bar, and also this girl, the city residents at that time already had something to compare with, the attitude of the russian military was very different from the behavior of the ukrainian armed forces' defenders. there was a family that came to check their apartment, was it safe or not, to take certain warm clothes. they constantly asked us if we could go through, of course we did

they didn't forbid it, it's people's apartment, they kept telling us that they were standing before you in the ssu, they were scolded for it all the time, that is , people couldn't even take warm clothes for themselves, she tried to explain that the child could just get sick, it's very cold there, i just need to take common, well, just personal things, it's my apartment, she even had documents for this apartment. you have no right to be here, what do you think, the people who are there, will they want to go back there later, even if their own people, military personnel, who should protect these people, they do not protect them, but simply despise them and treat them as second or third class, yeah, one, two

and two tops, and then we move on yes. on the left leg, well, the guarantor had many competitions of victories in civilian life, but he considers the main awards received for the defense of his people. my first award was for military merit, but this was back in the lugansk people's republic, that is, this is the lugansk medal, the second award was, this is already the russian medal for military cooperation, the third award was participant in combat actions, and the fourth... here is a more significant award, which is state, became the suvorov medal, i recently received it relatively, for the elimination of a target, and one, two, top, top, left, one, two, top, top, excellent, excellent, in my opinion we are doing well, one of

the first major operations on the territory of donbass was debaltseve-chernukhinskaya. it was mainly men without experience, local residents, who participated in it, against trained military of the ukrainian army, despite the unequal forces, the men of donbass won victory, you haven't been here for a long time, more than 2 years, i'm looking at this field, at the forest plantation, well , probably it takes my breath away, we are.

over time, you see, the land has settled, before that more than 2 m of excavations, covered with logs, covered with earth from above, the land was sown with grass, they bought, transplanted seedlings, here the action took place, the hatch opened, the barrel of the gun rose. worked, the barrel lowered, the hatch closed, according to all the artillery textbooks, we had to, shot, roll, here the enemy was led, the enemy was misled by this, here i am i'm talking now and shaking, i'm really nervous inside,

i'm trying to hold my voice, there are just so many events connected. i hope they'll bring their grandchildren to places like these, definitely, so that they know the truth, i'd like to ask you to pay attention, unlike our enemy, you can see for yourself, there's no settlement, no field here, and they're hiding behind...

how many of you were here in this small room? eight people, guys, i remember, who are no longer with us, who were here before, these mountains that they dug up, the earth is brown, contrast, went to the market, took a bag of seeds, mustard, exactly a bag, that's all we sowed.

well, we nursed my wife back to health, thank god it worked out, why were we lucky, nursed my wife back to health, sent the child and wife to the russian federation, turned around, took a machine gun, simply went to take revenge.

shut off, cut off the power , look at us apolchugs, there was no water, dill, pay attention to our local donbass mentality, here comes a man, god forbid , it's bad, yeah, well, the water is dripping poorly, yeah, well, and the man needs water right now urgently, please, people have recruited, it's worth it. another position of those times, again ingenuity, dugouts were then equipped right in the rock. august 2, 2015, the enemy was shooting at us,

well, we always felt like we were in the bosom, a steep cliff, he either hit the cliff, or this reservoir, so those fragments went there, the reservoir we ... then collected fish, well, of course it's a pity for the fish, but i ate my fill of silver carp, in general , i don't eat silver carp anymore, well, nothing foreshadowed trouble, there was a willow, a shell was flying, a fragmentation fuse, for it is enough touch of a branch, hit a branch. we have 2,200,

right now we are on the former front of the front, these are the trenches - this is the closest place to our positions, that is , during the assault, during the assault on the day... before the assault for 3 days the consumption of shells was at least 300 pieces per day, the gun was worn out, you could light a cigarette from the barrel, that is , the enemy was directly behind this slope, behind the landing, there is the enemy, yes, here to stand at full height, well, this is deadly, they approached here squatting in single file, yeah, that's it... standing, standing here, well, that's it, here it's not like a sniper, a private polemicist is so soft, well, i would have filmed no, that

's all as it should be, now you and i are already standing looking at the lake, calmly, to be honest , how much time has passed, but i don't know, why not to shout. so many guys died here when they went out here on duty, you just ate from almost the same bowl with a person, that's it... and then not a single careful movement, bam, gone.

we have a huge difference with them: the spirit, they are here for money, and we are here for the idea, under ukraine for a very long time. a lot was not done, that it had to be done, and here the result is right there, and it is nice not only in terms of defending one's interests, but in terms of the fact that it was all not in vain, that we are on the right path, changes are already visible today, roads are being built, schools are being restored, new kindergartens are appearing,

parks, squares, everything is being brought to normal, clean, in order, it is already visible now, there is no need to even guess, it will be better in the future, it will be more beautiful, our children will have a happy childhood, they will be confident in tomorrow.

mom, what are these letters for? for a fairy tale. in the three ninth kingdom, the three tenth state.

let's translate from official language into understandable language, everything is not so scary if there is an instruction. and let's start with the situation in the kursk region. the russian su-34 destroyed a concentration of equipment and manpower of the ukrainian armed forces. as reported by the ministry of defense,

the strike was carried out on camouflaged enemy targets using aerial bombs with a universal planning and correction module. as soon as intelligence confirmed the destruction of personnel and armored vehicles of the ukrainian armed forces, the crew returned to the airfield departure. and today the ministry of defense published footage of the destruction of an armored vehicle humvee of the armed forces of ukraine, also in the border area of ​​the kursk region. the equipment was first discovered by reconnaissance of the northern group of forces, then the vehicle was destroyed by a direct hit by an fpv drone. and more footage from the kursk direction: aerial reconnaissance of one of the units of the northern group of forces discovered an equipped and camouflaged stronghold of the armed forces of ukraine in a forest belt. as reported by the ministry of defense, the target was hit by an artillery strike. the place of temporary accommodation of enemy personnel was destroyed. according to the ministry of defense, the ukrainian armed forces lost ...