we were going there to protect people, innocent people, well , to be honest, we were already ready for this, we should have done this a long time ago , to start a military special operation, so everyone was ready, they were morally ready, we didn’t even talk about it, everyone just knew where we were going, why we were going, what our task would be, that is, we were all ready to help, only to help, to free the population from the nazis, they simply told us that the nazis had entered one village, the nazis had entered the second village, closer and closer to closer to us, we ourselves told the commanders there that we were waiting, that we were waiting, and the commanders said, the order will come soon, we will go, if it doesn’t come, we won’t go.

participation in a special military operation did not cause any doubts either for alexander or his brother igor, who serves with him in the same regiment, the youngest of the lugansky brothers also serves in the airborne unit of the russian army, they ended up in a reconnaissance company, in the elite of the air forces, a valiant platoon, there are a lot of us serving there from the same village, with one school, even classmates, we have 10 people from our.

already the third explosion, when it was, this explosion , a fragment pierced the bulletproof vest from behind, hit the spine, the sixth thoracic, i already fell into the landing of a combat vehicle, that's after what - i asked a friend to inject

painkillers, a friend injected painkillers, another shot comes into the car, the blast wave throws him back. yes, a friend, he is alive, everything is fine with him, he just threw him out of the car, yes, one was left to burn in the car, that is, there was another guy who was driving this car, here he is, my friend, a good friend, he ran up to me, but they were shooting at the car with a machine gun, i sent him away, told him to leave, he jumped off the car, said, we'll run up now , he started to burn in the car, his legs started to burn, the car caught fire, his legs started to burn, there was another piece of shrapnel in his finger, he stuck it in his glove, i didn't pay attention to it anymore, he started to put out the fire on himself, it's good that the uniform was good, a gatekeeper, it doesn't burn that badly, a guy ran up, his name is dima, we had already met

there in the forest, he saw that i was burning, he was shooting at the car, i don't know, it's just the same the guy is such a hero, he shoots at the car, he just jumped on top, took the order. he pulled me out of the car, started to put me out with a fire extinguisher, dragged me into the woods , i also asked him to take the belt, we had a first aid kit there, he also went back to the car for the belt, he did all this with a machine gun, he always ran with a machine gun, the guy also shot back, yes, so he dragged me into the woods, brought me the first aid kit, we quickly took off the bulletproof vest, the helmet, everything was taken off me, and i stuck my hand under my jacket, there was no blood. i think, well at first i didn’t understand that it was in the spine it hit, it was later, when i saw the blood on my back, there at the back, the bullet went right through, two bullets went right through my shoulder and easily, the bulletproof vest, when he was taking it off for me, he found a bullet, it was sticking out of the bulletproof vest, that is, a bullet,

a bullet, to my brother, so we later, when we saw the bullet, already said that it was a sniper bullet, i asked him to give it to his brother, he serves with me, so he said where it is... to find it, how to find it, to give the bullet to him, he taped it up at the back, taped it up at the front, that is, he made a vacuum, i filled the wound in my shoulder and asked him, so that he would throw leaves at me, he threw leaves at me, well before leaving, he gave me his grenade, said, take it just in case, so i broke a stick, started throwing more leaves at myself, dmitry went for help, at that time a new shelling began, so he ran away and after that my 3 days began, which i spent in the forest. when a unit on the march gets

ambushed, and this sometimes happens in war, losses are inevitable, those who survived from alexander's unit. retreating, they shot back, and half remained here on battlefield. some died immediately, some were seriously wounded. alexander heard the groans of his comrades, and then something began that no one who had been to war wants to remember. i didn’t sleep at all on the first day, because already towards night i heard shots, as they began to finish off, the nazis, yes, they were in black uniforms, we found out about it later. well, ida was fighting. it was already dark - i heard shots at first, well, they were talking, they i didn’t

understand what they were shouting, that is, they were about forty meters from me across the road, so the shots were just going, i was already like lying there on the ground, already well... i figured out that those shots weren't just the air, that they were collecting their bodies there, i saw how they carried their bodies across the road, their brothers-in-arms, nazis, that they were passing right by, that they didn't see me 10 meters away, i don't know, god helped that, probably, they passed by me many times, that they passed by on the left, on the right and in front on the second day. already when i started to lose consciousness already in the morning, i already understood that i was losing consciousness, i already sort of understood what was happening, that i could not to survive, but of course i didn't think about it, i thought that everything would be fine, i knew that they would come for me, i knew that my brother would come for me,

since alexander was in a shelter and covered with deadwood, this saved him, so the first night of these terrible three days passed. i was still a little numb, that is, i didn't feel anything more, well, on the second day , stronger ones began. the next day, the paratrooper was discovered, but not by the aidar soldiers, but by civilians, local residents. war is a mean thing, and people sometimes lose their human appearance when they see helpless wounded fighter, the feeling of power of impunity awakens in a person, everything dark, terrible spills out, then they imagine themselves the masters of someone else's life.

walked around behind me, and my father was telling me something, i honestly did not understand, i was talking in my own way, and after that the grandson began to hit me on the head, at such moments only strength of spirit helps to survive, after which this father saw that my legs were not moving, that is, well, my arm and legs were not moving, he said something to him, then he was dragging armor, my armor is under i was, that is, a helmet under my head, he took the armor, the helmet, shouted, like, now

we'll cut off your head, i took out a grenade, they immediately sat down, ran to the motorcycle, they were afraid that i would detonate the grenade, that is , take them with me, that is, if they had taken out a knife, i definitely would not have sat, would not have waited when they came right up to my throat with a knife, i would have taken them with me then, because there was no other option... i had no other option, but they got scared, and left, yes, they said, we 'll come for you, they were yelling something, we're for we'll come with you, he was saved by faith, he was saved by upbringing, he was saved by the cossack spirit that was with him, returned to the lugansk brothers from childhood, in the cossack village, he was saved by the desire to see his little son baptized. i tried to think only about the good, i remembered good moments, well

, good moments from life, family, work, service, how everything went with us, i remembered the beauty of the mountains, i was a climber on elbrus, i 've been to many mountains, so there was something to remember and i prayed too, but i i asked for something of my own, something that i needed to survive, to raise my child on his feet, so i prayed from the bottom of my heart, from the bottom of my heart, i asked to survive, i asked , it was the third day, yes, the hardest, that is, i was already breathing poorly, i was breathing very poorly , i had no strength, i could not even breathe, i had already lost consciousness many times. it was hard, well, time , to be honest, flew by quickly on the third day, i

don’t remember much, i lost consciousness many times, but i didn’t forget the night, i always remembered that if there was a third night, what would it be like, in the first day it snowed, the second day it rained, the third day i don't know, i was probably expecting hail. late in the evening , a patrol of the russian army was passing along this road, next to which sasha was lying, they didn't notice him half-dead right away, when they did, they didn't shoot, but first they asked, who are you, on the third day, already on the third night, well, that is, i was already lying at night, i didn't lose consciousness. i was still waiting for them to come for me, then i heard cars coming from the side we

were driving from, i barely got my flashlight on my forehead, i turned on the flashlight and came to when our guys were already with me, the russian speech gave me so much strength, to be honest, i still understood that i would survive in this situation, i was glad. i knew that i would see my son, the first column approached, the car that was on patrol, so they went to inspect me, and the scouts, they looked, they said: we almost started shooting at you, but because they, it was night, they look at the night light and, that is, from the bushes just a light shines, they look there, this is where they started asking where from, who is from where, they look, well, the uniform is russian, that is, i explained to them that i am one of them, so, hello,

now alexander is undergoing a rehabilitation course, not only 6 hours a day with... he works out in the gym under the supervision of an experienced trainer, instructor, but he is re-learning life, you stretch out one hand, and yes, like that, the injury is serious, the spine is damaged, the spinal cord is damaged, but alexander lugansky, this hereditary cossack, will get back on his feet, he will be able to walk. sasha is also helped by his family, they support him , they return confidence to the unbroken fighter to himself. his wife, son, brothers, father, for him

now are like those saving beacons in the night forest, when the wounded sergeant lay for three days by the road, hoping only for god. at that moment, faith, hope and love did not let him die. and i would like to finish our story with the lines of a poem by sergei labanov. live , my brother, despite all deaths, with time all wounds will heal, and know that you are not just lucky. god has other plans for you, hello, we are opening a new series

of programs, a cycle of documentaries under the general title, there was an incident in the war, a... the exploits of our officers soldiers on the fields of a special military operation. february 28 , 2022, maria mirashnichenko, cardiologist, senior lieutenant, ekaterina ivanova, felcher, ensign. as part of a small military column, they were returning from the temporary deployment sites of our troops to the belgorod region. these.

rapolshchik ivanova, ekaterina ivanovna, it was hard to pull out, i serve russia, thank you, thank you, a person experiences at war. the strongest emotions in their lives: death walks nearby, one wrong step - movement and this the forest, this is the road, this is the sky, everything will instantly disappear, hide, remain behind the threshold. sometimes we don’t know that there are people living next to us

who are capable of a feat. they don’t talk about it, and sometimes, probably, they themselves don’t even know that they are capable of such a thing. while collecting material about these two girls, we talked to their relatives, familiar colleagues, and got these portraits. maria miroshnichenko. her mother used to call her mashenka sunshine when she was a child. mashenka was a very serious and responsible girl, she wanted to become a doctor. when she had to younger brother to stay at home alone, she was 5 years old, he was 3 years old, that is, she was already at that age. she looked after him, i went to work was calm, that practically the whole day he would be under supervision, she would feed him everything-everything-everything, she was 5 years old, well when... so they played, she was always a doctor, she was always with these dolls, they always had a lot of toys on medicine there she had this ailit, there was this whole first aid kit,

everything-everything-everything, they played only a doctor all the time, that's how she is, if she wanted to do something, she will do it, in school too she was studying, here she is at school, she came for a walk, ate, sat down by herself, did her homework, that's it, then she went freely... she walks, she didn't have to be forced, she was more impressed by marisev's feat, when a man was left without legs, frost, through the forest, a story about a real man, yes, a story about a real man, yes, all the stages that he went through in the hospital, it struck her so much, she talked about it for a long time, told everyone, wrote essays at school,

and a few days ago she recalled this book, because there was a case, she had a soldier who was admitted to the hospital, who had injured both legs in

the same way, he crawled in the same way, but everything turned out better, because they saved his legs, she was very happy about this, that it was repeated, yes, the feat was repeated, she is fair, hardworking, very honest, here... she lived the same as maria, and miraculously remained alive. katya's colleagues behind the scenes sometimes call her the iron lady, she is a beauty, an athlete, she loves her job and people, many soldiers owe their lives to her. the most important quality, it seems to me, she had honesty, during all this time she never told anyone a lie, that's one thing, the second, no matter how much it hurt her.

and gto, she participated in competitions, she did push-ups well, she did pull-ups well, she ran, that is, she got good physical qualities in our college, that's why she was in combat, because she was resilient, she got hardened, she ran, she also ran on her own, she has a strong character, these are the kind of students, they are remembered very well, because she was very... capable, purposeful, she knew why she came to study, the subject was very easy for her, because of her curiosity, she never left

any unknown questions, she always tried to get solid, strong knowledge, it was very interesting to talk to her, because it was clear that she directed her knowledge to...

a strong feeling, just inside, such calm, complete silence, no feelings, no emotions, no fear, nothing, when it started, the shelling began, the same thing, no emotions, work, yes, just work , everything, the first shot, when they rang out, yes from the first days, probably, we had, and you understood, here is the first shelling, you understood that it was shelling, that they were shooting, we had such a large column, we were somewhere in the middle of the composition, if there was some shelling, we

just like that... we ran through a trench to the side of the road, yes into a trench, so we lay down there, so we were alarmed with each other, as if we were watching there we had an observation post, we were watching there in the landing, so that they would scare no one there, somehow like that on machine gun on adrenaline too, we weren't scared, well somehow i didn't have any kind of awareness, it was that well, it was so true, it was all so serious, the whistle of bullets, artillery cannonade, explosions. all this became a new reality for them, the first wounded appeared, as the military say, the three hundredth, and do you remember your first wounded, the very first, of course, well tell me, well there was shelling, they brought an officer, his lung was pierced, here was a field wound in his shoulder, in the end it turned out that his arm was broken, there

him now this... blood, probably, yes, no, they bandaged him, all this, well there was blood, yes, but they bandaged him, everything, as if, and the wounds were some kind of mine blasts, shrapnel or field, that basically, well, at first , we didn’t come under mortar shelling , artillery, we didn’t have only we , basically, field ones, the duty shift, they carried out operations, so someone continued to carry out the operation there under shelling, yes, i say, i say, now the shelling will end, i say to the headquarters, i say, i’ll go, well, i’ll take the wounded i say it's not hard for me it's not difficult as if i say i'm not afraid i say if necessary i'll take you well that's it the shelling ended well i woke up morning came there and the boss says you and you go to me on masha shows here we collected the wounded the guys loaded theirs into the car drove off everything happened in the sumy region of eastern ukraine the command of the battalion tactical group decided

to send to the rear. a small convoy with the wounded, to the russian border was somewhere around 80 km, in the ambulance, besides masha and katya there were two heavy three-hundredths and several light ones wounded, it turns out we had two lying down, the rest were si, well, everyone was transported sitting, we were going to aeski, also a car based on the ural, unarmored, in a small column, in front of us were scouts. we are behind him, a small column, we are driving, talking, we were just discussing that according to the geneva convention, medical vehicles should not be touched, in principle, here is a medical worker, yes , there was a cross, it was hot in the car, the heater was on, we had a strong heater , there are wounded, they were cold, and i was sitting, i had a bushlad, a bulletproof vest on top,

hat, here i am sitting, i am hot, and i think, i need to take off my bushwaat, to make it easier, i took off my bulletproof vest, took off my pea coat, i was wounded, he says, katya, put it back on, i say , of course, i will put it on, i put on my bulletproof vest, the pea coat is left, at about 10 am the column was ambushed, the nazis first hit the lead... patrol in an armored car, all the scouts died, the first shell flew in, apparently from a zhevelin, that's how we understood it, then it hit our pole, well, it hit the pole and hit the first car with the scouts, no one got out there, no one got out of them, it flew into the car reconnaissance shrapnel from it had already hit our car, then transferred fire to the medics' car.