in de-occupied balaklia by day. liberation repaired the sign that was gutted by the occupiers in theentral park, i love balaklia, and the repair agreement in the prozor public procurement system was made public after that, and it turned out that this declaration of love is worth as much as half a million, like a three-room apartment in balaklia downtown, so how it appeared, our iryna antonyuk explained, the city of balaklia, hundreds of kilometers from kharkiv, was under occupation for six months, the invaders' shells damaged literally every house here, they even destroyed the i love sign balakli in the central park, this is how it looked before the great war, and this is footage already after the deoccupation, however, by the day of the liberation of the city in early september, the installation was repaired, and according to prozoro , it cost half a million hryvnias, and the agreement about this cost became known after carrying out the works, of course we were surprised, because the cost, the price, and the priorities that are now, and after so many scandals there with drums, stadi

was considering our further actions even during the first operation precisely in the district of balakliaand there it was clear that the enemy had a weak city, we planned much less, as it turned out, initially the intention of the operation, well, in the volume that i own, it was blocking the raisin, balaklia was determined by one of the tasks , because there was a storage base there, a large arsenal, which stored a sufficient amount of armed ammunition in peacetime, there were protected warehouses, the railway track just allowed to ensure its offensive. group, of course, the enemy also used it to support its troops, this was also one of the tasks of this operation, at that time a powerful enemy group, about 12 battle tactical groups of the enemy, was located in the izyuma district, and there were constant assaults on the enemy in the direction from there. in in the direction of the border of the kharkiv and donetsk regions, any fortress has its sweet spots, but such a sweet spot was precisely the construction of the defense, north of balaklia, the junction between the two battalions, and

was liberated , on september 9, 2022, a full-scale cleanup of balaklia begins today, here we are atto the city, there are a lot of police here now, all units, military here, i.e. there is a mass, mass event and a mass sweep. well, friends, it's a historic day, clay was liberated from the russian occupiers, i took a symbolic photo with the ukrainian flag, which has been my talisman for over 15 years. he went around the whole planet with me, was under everest, was on the tops of various mountains, but now his most important mission, expeditions to ukraine, glory to ukraine, here are the first steps in the peace talk, good day, good day, remnants and remnants of russian peace, boclia. and here is ukraine, ah, here, here is the ukrainian front, at that time the front was stretched for more than 1000 km, why was balaklia chosen as the main direction of the attack, this city was familiar to me, because i served there nearby and knew very well well, this area, the construction of the enemy's defense there was weak, that's why it was chosen exactly this, the venue, it just gave its result,

during the first operation, i was considering our further actions specifically in the balaklia districtclear that the enemy had stacks of the city, we planned much less, as it turned out, the initial intention of the operation, well, in the volume that i own, it was a raisin lock, chatter was determined by one of the tasks, because there was a storage base that we lost, a large arsenal that stored sufficient the number of weapons and ammunition in peacetime, there were protected warehouses, the railway track just allowed to provide its offensive kurpony, of course, the enemy also used it to provide its troops, this was also one of the tasks of this pirate, at that time, in the izyum area, a powerful group was formed of the enemy, about 12 battle tactical groups of the enemy, and there were constant assault attacks from the enemy in the direction of sloviansk. in the direction of the border of the kharkiv and donetsk regions, in any fortress there is its sweet spots, such a sweet spot was precisely the construction of defenses, north of balaklia, the junction between the two battalions,

are already saying that we need to go to kupyansk, and we simply did not believe it, we left from balakliaas also been liberated, and we are now going to clean it up there, there may still be russians, collaborators, that is why the election is mandatory, it is on this road, literally two days ago, that a huge column of russians went, who ran away, but further events... and this counteroffensive will go down in history, in world history story, let's go. how is it possible to keep such a pace? you know how it is possible to hold, well, first of all, you need to feel this taste of victory, when the offensive itself began immediately, when the enemy's defense literally began to fall apart, and in two days we traveled 48 km, when we saw that the enemy was not so strong, and to beat him... and quite effectively, then this is the mood , maybe even admiration, it just gave such a message, already when they understood that they were surrounded, when they were bypassed and in their rear by units of the ukrainian army, they simply in panic began in their ranks, they began to drop everything and run

heard the city of balakleia, as i am from balakleia, i was very rad, that’s why i’m all... this is balaklia’sment, thanks to the tanks, hundreds of tanks closed positions, when we entered the enemy’s positions, there was no one alive, well, there was almost nothing left, the enemy, especially for us, did not create any, there was also destroyed equipment and the means of fire and peremots are completely in his trenches, that is, well worked very hard. everything is fine, everything is fine, well done, well done, we have been praying for six months that you? on september 8, without units of trucki in ukraine, glory, the enemy understands the current situation, he had to go to the raisin, since the raisin on this side was blocked by the 95th brigade, and here part of our brigade, so it was necessary, the only way, it is great, 10 september 22nd year , the reconnaissance company of the 25th landing brigade with the third special forces regiment, we are already in izyum, everything will be ukraine, the flag is already burning above us, we approached izyum, together with the units the 25th brigade

our direction was to break out of balaklia, thanks to the tanks, the strength of the tanks in closede entered the enemy’s positions, there was almost nothing left, the enemy, especially the enemy, did not create any for us, the equipment and fire equipment were destroyed there and rewind it completely, dig it up, that is, well the tankers worked very well. everything is fine, everything is fine, well done, well done, half a year prayed that, raising the ukrainian , region 16:00, september 8 vezroziv, before you understand that it is accurate, he had to go into the raisin, because the raisin on this side was blocked 95 th brigade, and here it is a part of our brigades, so here is the only way he is here on september 10, 22, the detachment of the 25th landing brigade with the third special forces regiment, we are already in izyum, this will be ukraine, the flag is already burning above us, we approached izyum, together with units the 25th brigade went directly to the outskirts of izyuma and entrenched themselves in the farthest houses there. blocks at night, a certain group asked to co

in the balaklia community, which survived the occupation for a year, solar panels were installed in case of possible blackouts. they will generate electricity for pumping pumps. water from a well, we had generators, but the cost of producing water with generators, it's completely insane, and we determined that it had to be a solar panel, and according to all data, there is electricity generation. will be enough for water supply. 10 modular boiler houses were installed in izyum in kharkiv oblast, one of the cities most damaged by the russians. in the last heating season, thanks to the efforts of our utility workers , it was possible to connect 92 houses to heating. now, thanks to these boiler houses, we have the opportunity to add another 20, at least 21 residential buildings. maybe even it will be 34. and that will be somewhere around 55% of what. warmed up before the start of hostilities. in the kushogom community of front-line zaporizhzhia people stock up on firewood. evgeny shows how he heated the house for a year, everything went into the stove, including firewood and old furniture,

husband, made his documents, came with us picked up, it was november 4, when we first arrived in balaklia euphoria, euphoria, i just cuddled with those, i stayed here, i was happy for every person, every animal, we walked with the little one, looked at all the changes . i really love my children, my work, i missed my work, there were not enough children, maybe someone will not believe it, but many teachers say that there is not enough live communication with children, well, maybe that is why, even during the occupation, i was engaged in work, this is firstly, and secondly, i wanted to distract myself, because there was constant shelling, there was no light, but the laptop that was given to us at work allowed me to work, and without light, and i even sat, made presentations, which i still use even now, and without light, and yes, you know , now it's scary to read these conditional presentations tilt, if there was no putin, everyone would be, putin, everyone would be better off, and well, that is, everyone there, a whole poem like this was built, if only, if only, if there was no, we would

well, let's go back to ukraine: balaklia will be warm this winter - promises the military administrationst year , local utility workers did something incredible. the city was liberated from the occupiers in september. they managed to connect the heat to the frost, well , they could not then connect only the houses that were badly damaged by the russians, and it was with their residents that our iryna antonyuk talked, and this is what she saw and heard there. mrs. lyubov built this house together with her neighbors, she never left it, neither during the occupation nor when when the house was left without heating in the winter, because the occupants broke the apartment networks. over there somewhere. it was all wet, and what did they do with it, they took it, it was a fungus, imported , of course, 300 rubles, a bottle 270, they sprayed it and after 15 minutes it was wiped dry and it turned white, the winter passed, i remember, it was difficult, although the shelling in the city quieted down, and then it was scary, i don’t know, i can’t even tell you what it was scary, i was waiting for som

slowly, step by step , sappers go through yards, gardens and fields near balaklia, in 180 days the occupationmy is here left so many mines that after a month of demining, the village still cannot be called safe, even in the kherson region, such a thing has never been seen. in kharkiv oblast , it is so dangerous here that we use some unprecedented security measures, here we don't even go anywhere without armored vehicles, even to the toilet. the most scattered around the village are the petals, the sappers say, in one small garden you can find several dozen of them, small , barely visible in the grass and they can work at any moment, one of these was caught by oleksiy in this garden, i was moving the grass, it worked, it worked, it was good that i was in protection, but still i got a fragment of a petal in my chin, they went to the hospital to sew it up, well, such an unpleasant incident, everything they find right here in the garden and pluck it, sometimes the petals are brought to the sappers by local residents, this ms. nadiya took it out of her garden. after my husband's legs were torn off

paramedic in the evacuation brigade for almost a year, and then a year during the liberation of balaklia rejoined the hospital staff for half a month. these two weeks alone, they were equal to my year at the hottest points, damn ato, she recalls, she wore a male military uniform at the front, there was no female uniform then, so last spring kateryna and her colleagues created a women's veteran movement on the basis of a public organization a veteran military woman, up to a hundred uniforms for women defenders are sewn here every month. it is created for a woman's body, there is a deeper fit of the pants, and another, well, cut there where under the chest, a different length of the sleeve, shoulders and so on, this shop appeared on the initiative of kateryna's combat friend paramedic yulia sidrova, she was engaged in clothing design together with fashion designer stanislav bitos. both are now at the front. sketches are drawn in the breaks between combat tours, says the veteran co-founder of the brand. this is their collection with stas, we have it april poka... in paris, were forced to su