103 russian servicemen released from ukrainian captivity have returned to their homeland. now they will undergo treatment and rehabilitation in the institutions of the ministry of defense. among those meeting the special board was our correspondent yegor grigoriev. he talked to several soldiers. il-76 at the main terminal of the military airfield, the ramp is open. on board are 103 of our servicemen. they were exchanged the day before and now they are finally setting foot on their native soil. i am certainly happy, i don’t know, the emotions, i can’t put into words. i didn’t think that i

would return home, well, that is, the worst, what scenario for you, well i expected the worst, got the best, be it long, but we are glad that we finally returned home, we waited a month, a whole month, it was worth the wait, the girl is very happy that well, even cried, my emotions were indescribable, ukrainian militants were obviously trying to find out as much information as possible, they kept servicemen in barracks, in the sumy and kiev regions, we were sitting in the sumy colony, that...

well, at first, no one knew there, neither mom, nor dad, nor relatives, then there in ukraine they let us call, return for many are surprised, in case of a breakdown of exchanges on the part of ukraine, this has already happened, our servicemen have a long rehabilitation process ahead, after which, as many said, they would like to return to the front.

egor grigoriev, viktor barmin, alexander zarubov, anna tarasenko. vesti. but now fresh data from the ministry of defense, at least 300 militants of the armed forces of ukraine were destroyed in a day in the border region of kursk oblast. all attempts by the enemy to advance deep into the region have been stopped. the fighters of the ukrainian regime were unable to pull reserves across the border, as a result lost manpower and 15 armored vehicles. stanislav nazarov reports from kursk oblast. rocket artillery crews are approaching the border with sumy oblast to hit the warehouses of the new ukrainian armed forces bridgehead. we are now moving to a defensive position, we will work directly from the border, because the target is very distant, so we will move there in advance and conduct reconnaissance. enemy fpv drones and mortars are trying to target the combat vehicle. move forward, move forward, as received.

in the gray zone of kursk oblast, we are moving on armored transport chose the time period when it was. shoots well, the calculation of the installation hits the targets that our aerial reconnaissance transmits online. the entire crew works on the machine, understands that this is our chance for victory, for life, we all love it and take care of it. the machine is very easy to operate. our units

destroy the self-propelled artillery installation crab with the help of the loitering lancet munition. the army aviation crew hits. stefania reasons helps yulia's mother collect eggs in the chicken coop, her grandmother's wife pick onions dill in the garden, soldiers are drawn suns and hearts at the front, also help. defender

of relatives. stesha is the smallest volunteer family to help the front, yulia goryaeva and evgeniyana, her mother started. april 2022 wanted to support the border guards of their native belgorod region, and now there is a volunteer in every yard. olga and her daughters collect medicines and make goat cheese, machine operator sergei, his granddaughter shares honey from her own apiary. raisa vasilievna unpacked chests with blankets and mattresses so that the soldiers in the dugouts were warm in winter and softly. children suffer on the front lines, they protect us, and we sleep peacefully, help with what you can, we help, we can do everything, on weekdays, palatovo relatives work for the good of the family, the state in the fields, gardens, on the farm, the poultry farm, in the silpo school, on friday

evening the tolovaya saturday begins. evening has fallen over the village of palatovo, the sky has become foggy, you can touch the stars with your finger, as they sing in a famous song, but the locals do... instead of going to watch tv series, having fed the cows and given the piglets, they begin to prepare salads, borscht, dumplings, pies, all this for the tolovaya saturday, the rear saturdays appeared in the palace through me...

which we bake, we call them croissants for heroes, the guys know them and love them, and we bake pies very often, for the winter we have already prepared stewed poultry, we will add it to potatoes and make delicious meat pies. now the volumes of production of croissants and buns

are approaching industrial ones, but there is little space in the kitchen, and household appliances do not allow us to turn around. my biggest problem is a small oven. here i bake seven. 10 croissants, but i only have nine pieces that fit in the oven, if only i had a three-tier oven, then i wouldn't know any trouble, but i process 14, 16 or even 18 kilograms of dough in a day, the thick kitchen is crowded with pickles and preserves, the ideological inspirer of the volunteer movement evgenia valentinovna, remembers how they sent the first baked goods to the hospital, whoever eats them will be healthy, here they will return home victorious, here i say with every pie, let there be peace, and everywhere, in ukraine in... and how friendly housewives from all over the village

they started to rag at night to feed the soldiers hot dishes in the morning, and they responded, you know, such a good age category, which is from 25 to 40, and then those who are retired pulled up. you all your free time, the question of the number of fried cutlets stumped the hostess:

there will already be about a thousand for the soldiers, here are countless pies, we don’t know how many we’ve made, so our pies are going great, the guys like fried ones, they mostly like baked ones, well, who likes what, i mostly make fried ones, that’s how it is fresh, always good pies , we freeze peppers, freeze cutlets, then as far as possible, as needed, we take them out, fry and pass them on. pumpkins and squash have ripened in the garden, chickens and ducks have gained weight in the poultry yard, rice is regularly brought to the village store. elena ivanovna deftly stuffs bell peppers, observing all the rules of sanitary hygiene. in gloves, i with meat, only in gloves. who are you cooking for? for soldiers, children in the hospital, on the front lines, wherever they come across.

the smell of fried food spreads from the neighboring street onions and carrots, this is lidiya fyodorovna and her daughter-in-law making a dressing for russian borscht, which they cook in buckets, but we will tell you about this tomorrow, now to the women of the non-visiting journalists, in this house there is no sizzling, no bubbling, no hissing, here the sewing machine is knocking, klavdiya vasilyevna is a seamstress, she sews for soldiers at the front. hello, hello, it's night outside, you are sewing, the color is burning, you can

sew all night, before there was no light, there was a smokehouse, a candle was burning, and people sewed, embroidered, spun, knitted, and now on tv, yes on the phone, then on the computer, people used to be accustomed to work, sasha is glad, the soul will be gladdened by the soldier, there will be some benefit, and what to live, you have

to work. at first there were three seamstresses in the team, not everyone will take on painstaking work, then school lessons in cutting and sewing, two more women remembered. local grannies helped with materials, they got colorful satin cuts from bottomless chests, soft flannel, woven according to soviet gosts and red crimson fabric. the material is good, these are fabrics from the girls. from ours, and these are our palatovtsy, well, of course, zoya passed this on, yes, so here it is, now, and look, this will probably go for ties. the girls sew panties and shorts for guys in hospitals, a simple cut and unusual bright colors distinguish palatovsky panties from famous foreign brands, these are our

shorts with pockets for a phone, maybe for cigarettes. and we also have, it will be cool now, i sew them these very breeches, here they are, you see what they are, palatovsky tailors have developed special underwear for guys who have received leg wounds, panties with ties made of cotton fabric, an invention of rural fashion designers were appreciated by both patients and

medical staff, what to convey to them, so that they have this health, the most important thing... that they have strength , may god protect them, and we will help them as best we can, support them, god grant that they are all alive, god grant that the wounded recover quickly, god grant that we win quickly, this is the most important thing, there are a lot of orders for non-statutory underwear, here there are not enough needlewomen, men came to the rescue, our men are helping, probably, here our seamstresses told you that their husbands freed the seamstresses from housework.

if well i don't know, maybe even the driver will take it to the kamaz, he slept, lay down, anyway , they are already sleeping, dozing, it is on synthetic padding, they are not downy, they are good, soft, try

how good they are, and this, and here it is just not... a napkin, and this is a towel, yes, these are grandmothers

who kept the fabric, they don't need it now, they need something unnecessary, but for the front , and this towel, this small one turned out to be necessary, the palatovskaya relatives do not go out until the morning, the village does not sleep, but the streets are deserted, the border is far away, but enemy fpv drones, and drone observers fly here, so local residents do not recommend driving in the evening with the headlights on, and suggest spending the night here on the hayloft. it's early morning, and little stefania is already on

her feet, her mother urgently needed chicken eggs. they didn't find any eggs, and it's still morning, it's just early, eggs are available in the evening, yes, well done, an order came from the front line, the soldiers asked for okroshka, the ladies dug up potatoes in the garden, picked onions , dill, sausages. neighbors, now all this needs to be cut and packed, usually when there is a lot they cooked, they say, they cook like a wedding, and here in palatovo they cook for a whole platoon, here is okroshka in buckets, there is not enough onion , dill, probably, pies with potatoes, with cabbage with green onions, everything is our own, everything is from the garden, everything is made by hand, we cook our palatovo okrug, famous throughout russia

. we chop it, everything is homemade, onions, cucumbers, potatoes, homemade yellow eggs, the guys really, really love our okrug, the polotovo okrug is not on kvass or kefir, it is on... mineral water, which can be bought at any store, here is the base in the heat that needs to be delivered to the border area. we throw in ice so that it will definitely arrive. and we send it to the guys at the border, they take it beyond the belt when there is a lot of ice in the bucket, well, and to those who are right next to us. the whole yard is filled with bags of potatoes, boxes of tomatoes, bales of carrots and onions, bottles of vegetable oil, and evgeniya valentinovna keeps bringing and bringing from the cellar. pickles and jams, here comes the rear saturday, that is the correct name for the day of harvesting, or rather, what we prepared in the evening, your colleagues, your relatives

from palatovo, well, we go to collect, yes, first we go from house to house, collect baked goods, freshly cooked food, then we come back, load up with vegetables, because they cook there themselves, too, and the guys cook themselves, there are girls who help us, closer to the border we load up with vegetables, fruits, everything we have, and set off. there are only four streets in palatovo, but they are spread out at a decent distance from each other. we start the house-to-house tour from the farthest house. on the way to yulia goryaeva manages to tell him about the culinary traditions of the village.

and today she says less to me, mom, why did you put compote in the freezer, the soldiers will get sick, drink it cold, she says you can't, until it gets there, yes, yes, i say it myself, it's hot, it will get there, i say it will melt , three volunteers are growing up at once in svetlana krivonosova's house, two daughters and a son, and we are helping the front, why? tell me, well , because, firstly, they are also children, yes, as they say, yesterday's children who have just graduated, there are guys 18-19

years old. yes, but who went to defend the homeland, because here he is, i also have a son, although he is small, but in my soul i already understand that he is a future warrior, a future defender, yes, of the fatherland, yes, my mother's heart could not stand it when one day russian soldiers who had stopped for a rest knocked on svetlana's door, they arrived somehow it was almost night, but first of all, it was late autumn, it was already dark, they knocked on my door, but i think, who came there, i think, i don't understand, i opened it. and he is standing there with a pack of powder, he says: will you wash my clothes? i say: well, of course i will wash them, i i say: no need, no powder, nothing, yes. in the morning the soldiers returned with candy for the children, with flowers for the hostess, i see they have rollton in the bag, that's all. i say, what about you? i say, you don't eat hot food? well, on rollton there, on this. i say, so let's do it, i say, i'll feed you, well, how so, i'll feed you, and my brothers, but they are really second cousins, but

first they are also there for...

what will you please us with, with cabbage with love, well, that's me, when there's nothing to do in the winter, when we have peace, oh, when there's a war, we bake pies, we bake them , they praise our pies, they say, here's the bushing gingerbread, and palatovskie pies, boxes of hot pies barely fit in the trunk, buckets of pilaf and goulash seem endless, they are carried out from almost every hut, they were cooked all night, no, all, all night we sleep civilized. we work early in the morning, that's it, he'll leave me alone, don't take it off, go, kol, kol, kol, kol, here is the familiar house of lidiya fyodorovna, there is no one in the yard, the hostess is still cooking, she decided to bake more pies, and with different fillings, i have a filling with peas, with... potatoes with

stewed liver, oh, everything is filling, everything everything is so delicious, yes, how much do you charge - here they are fried, baked and there i fried them myself, you can try them, during the 3-hour drive through the village we occasionally got hungry, everything here is so appetizing, half-fried, there are baked, there are fried, we are trying the fried ones now, very tasty, and what do you have here, potatoes with stew, it will also go to the hospital, as a filling for pies. lidiya fyodorovna is a technician, but in the last 5 years she worked as a manager in a rural canteen, so she knows what to feed a team of combine operators, in our case of the fighters. aunt lida somehow very quickly turns out pies, and i have some

kind of dumpling. only potatoes, we plant a lot of potatoes, a full basement, there we have everything, and how many twists, we give all this to the guys, yes, julia, all this is my daughter-in-law, everything with twists is her, and we with cattle, well, with animals more, the most delicious pies baked with liver, lidiya fyodorovna's children work at a poultry farm, they take part of the salary in crumbs, eggs are laid not by pretzels in the yard, and green onions grow in the garden, this is the finished product is already baked, let the boys eat, here is the last baking tray taken out of the oven, and this is a bucket of borscht, real homemade, and lidiya fyodorovna is carrying palatovsky uzvar, yes, real compote, which is also considered a national cuisine in palatovo, yes, yes.