mykhailo vernyhora joined the ranks of the national guards in 2007 as a conscript soldier and signed ontract immediately after training. at first, mykhailo defended ukraine in the east since 2014, and on the first day of the full-scale invasion, together with his comrades, he stood on the defense of mariupol. the day before, ukraine celebrated national guard day. in 2014, he defended the freedom and sovereignty of ukraine in donetsk region, he met a full-scale invasion in mariupol , mykhailo vernyhora tells national guardsmen . he joined the national guard of ukraine in 2007 as a conscript soldier. mykhailo recalls, signed a contract, then the military academy, and after being assigned in the 12th year, i got to serve in the military unit of this city in zaporizhzhia, and when the national guard was directly formed in the 14th year , i already served in it with automatic ammunition and running for cover, mykhailo recalls vernihora at four in the morning when the artillery shelling went completely along the demarcation line then the first artillery shelling arrived not far from us in t