ilya went to mariupol . samoilenko was among hundreds of soldiers who remained under siege during the bombings in the underground tunnels of azov, from there he told the whole world about the fierce battles in the city, the soldiers refused to surrender. until the order of the top military leadership of ukraine came , he was in captivity for 120 days and returned home as a result of the exchange in september of last year . i am sure that the main battles of azov are still ahead and ukraine cannot lose the war and there is only one option victory at the urzuf base. this is one of our bases near mariupol. well, the first day. it was the 24th. well, how am i ? how ? how? it must be at that moment. that is, you felt before that there would be a full-scale invasion, and at that moment you had to be there. well, how did i feel? i knew that something would happen. it was obvious starting somewhere from november, i think . and all these reports from mh6 are already underway from the american intelligence there, our european pa

[000:00:00;00] community with a ukrainian point of view ilya samoilenko, a legendary fighter of the equally legendary azov with the call sign gendal went to fight in 2015, at that time he was studying to be a historian, but the desire to be a warrior turned out to be stronger in 2017, he was injured since then instead of his left hand, but this did not stop ilya he again learned to practice with weapons before a full-scale invasion , ilya went to mariupol, samoilenko was among hundreds of soldiers who remained under siege during the bombing in underground tunnels , and from there he told the whole world about fierce battles in the city." well, the first day. it was the 24th. well, how am i , how , how, as i promised, i was at the right time, in the right place, with the right people. that there would be a full-scale invasion, and at that moment you had to be there. well, how i felt, i knew that something would be obvious starting somewhere in november, i think. that's where all these reports from mh6 from american intelligence go there our european partners from the main intelligence agency

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