The most difficult hours were the first hour, and somewhere around 4 in the morning, there was an explosion, it seems like its not near our house, but the shots are very loud, right, i dont know what it is, god, mom, until. Everyone, this is a joke and nothing will happen, on duty they reported that this is the situation, shelling of the northern part of the city, death flew there, the whole of kharkiv woke up, i woke up from the explosions that sounded on the border, in fact from the Russian Federation, and it was heard in the very place, satovka 605 microdistrict, there were very large columns from the city, 1020 km was unreal to drive not a combat vehicle. With equipment, not tanks, we will have to go back through the yards, because they are standing, you blocked them, you will not pass them, well, the people were just scared, they had to save themselves and their families, satovka 605 microdistrict, i took everyone and say, there women, who, who have children, families, relatives. I told you i give you two hours, two hours , so that you can decide for yourself who stays, stays with me in the place, who will leave, i will not judge anyone, because i have no right to do so, and i want to say that with the exception of a few cases , all remained. On the spur of the moment, i dont know how it works, but probably, for me, soon, we in the administration gathered somewhere after 1520 minutes, the composition, the Mayors Office was like this, including us, we began to actually plan and interact with our military in various directions , the entire personnel of the brigade was in advance in in the fields, at a distance from the first line, the equipment was staffed, the battalions were advanced in advance to their location areas determined by the brigade commanders , the front was large, the main task was during the crossing of the state border by russian troops, to inflict maximum fire damage, the task of the brigade was to stop, lets say, not to restrain, to stop the advance of the enemy, in order to give time for the deployment and tightening of forces, in relation to the state border of other military units. That amount of bandwidth the front, which was given to the brigade, it was impossible to hold the enemy. This is simply no country, no army of the world could hold the enemy in such a territory with such a volume, as was the case of a fullscale invasion. Everyone took their own defensive line, along the highway, with units, spyroon from the guard, the police, well, everyone was there. Set a task for the Group Commanders and their soldiers to change into civilian clothes and go to the north to see where the front line is, where the enemy is, and everything is even not bad there, the 92nd was already in position and restrained, well, the onslaught of the enemy, at this time i received a command from the head of the Eastern Territorial Administration to help our tanks on the circus. In fact, in an hour and a half, somewhere, the first checkpoint of the russians was near tsirkuny, it is actually a district road, it is naskaftsi. Which is today Armored Vehicles. Near the ring road, there were already aggressor troops, and the fighting began, i took with me three btr4e, bucephals, an aerial reconnaissance vehicle, and the command vehicle itself, it was a cougar. We ran at speed with that column, because it was necessary to follow the Circular Road to the tserkunovskyi intersection, there to the intersection and to the left there, we jumped out , we had a speed of 100110 somewhere, already approaching this intersection we already saw the first tank there, the first of them was their advanced group with personnel there to the enemys platoon, and we flew straight to them at speed at the checkpoint, you see, we didnt even. We couldnt think that the enemy had come so close to the city on this road, the First Armored personnel carrier destroyed the tanks and the following already destroyed everything that was there, in principle, all the combat equipment, and the enemy left with a landing pad from the direction from which he came, in this way we did not let the first tanks into the city, it was very pleasant for me and for of my unit, that we have completed the tasks that have rested on us all our lives, where did the enemy reach, the first to reach kharkiv, he quickly reached the outskirts of the northern sautivka, the district road, well , someone has already been beaten here, its the 22nd battalion , destroyed the enemy, forced them to retreat from the city of kharkiv to a distance a kilometer and a half, and then for many, many months, i kept the enemy at a distance, the armed forces tried to stop it with the minimum number. They started at first, they entered, i understand that the rosguard on Armored Vehicles there and on trucks, then when this attempt failed, they were knocked out assaults of heavy equipment with tanks and other things have already begun in kharkov, in principle all assaults were repulsed, they tried to climb from all four sides from all roads, not even through fields. The tactics were not bad, they were going in a column, in front of them, orland was flying above them and shows them the way where to enter, behind you are highrise buildings, houses that the enemy is destroying, but you are directly in the line of fire and you understand that if you just miss the enemy, then the city will be very difficult , and its already, its already the infantry, somewhere close, precisely. It was not possible not to let the enemy run into the city, these two or three days were the most difficult, then we already understood that this was not going to happen, everyone of them will be paid for and will remain here in the earth. County road, it was about, well the 150 men who directly held this defense in the first place are people, you can say, they are iron men, if the enemy understood. We are so good, we are so few, we have so little equipment, personnel, he would have gone further , the crisis moment was, it was the direction, the dergach direction, if they had gone with serious forces, they could have entered the city from the northwest, and then there would have been a problem, what kind of terrain is there, for them it is a fruitful base for further preparation and further promotion to the city, they wanted to make, i understand, a brilliant year. Tank columns just went in huge columns, so it was very convenient to fire. To us . On koonas approach , they simply burn, the enemy is destroyed, you get a huge moral satisfaction from the fact that the enemy did not pass today, and did not pass today, we leave, we leave. And the 27th, we also recall when the attempts to storm the city of kharkiv, the attempts of enemy Intelligence Groups to drive into the city of kharkiv on tigers, they drove by, but in time were. blocked by the kort special unit in school burnt russian equipment. Katsap sat down at school. Frykor and zsu are fighting. And the battle went on for 8 hours and they were all destroyed. And thats how russian dogs burn. Along the track, we knocked them out, because they are already there. In the area of felman park , on the other side, a unit of the brigade took up the fight, some units, starting with the gobkovki, restrained and slowly occupied the defense. In addition, there was a threat of amphibious landings, it was necessary to. Also counteract in such a way that the aggressor troops could not land planes on the airstrips, and we also did this, in the first days, lets say, the air Defense System was disrupted, when planes and helicopters circled over kharkiv. This is our morning. Along one of kharkivs avenues above me, well, we were driving and an airplane flew over us, since i know a little about airplanes and painting, i realized that it wasnt our airplane when the airplanes flew over, well, lets put it this way, the impact is such that even the locals run all over the city, and the troops, accordingly, until they restored order, while the locals evacuated. Were taken away, before that already horostav was more or less under the control of the military , and it has already become easier, and we are bombarding the city of kharkiv, shooting down the first planes, including helicopters, the first subversive and reconnaissance groups, entered where. In the cities from different directions, and these groups were not two or three people each, these people were 1520 people each, that is, those who were waiting , relatively speaking, teams of russians, the dergs were very prepared, they were very prepared, and they had squads bc. Car, for example, the central park, recreation, there was a group of about 1517 hostile people, they were blocked, there were were destroyed, and our guys were , as they say, very motivated to seize these locations and then hold them, on approaches, and it was very, very important to destroy them quickly, our guys managed to do it. Here is the safest place, now i will ask that our Communal Services organize the delivery of water , any food, we will try to make some tablets there, as you yourself understand that today the defense zone is holding, it was necessary. To build fortifications, everyone got involved construction companies, for which i am very grateful to them, by the way, because they did the impossible, today all Communal Services worked as they did, and they are working, we provide heat, despite the fact that there was a shell in the pyatikakatka, a shell was hit, we restored koterlen, a lot of things it was necessary to turn off the power supply and establish communication, we are holding. Volunteers helped a lot, right from coptic and everything, all of ukraine helped. I want to thank all our drivers who delivered these cars with their own hands, they will go already today on the routes in order to save our lives, the lives of our civilians, our military, people helped, people helped, and equipment was allowed through, and on the 20th, i think on the sixth or the 27th, i dont remember when the Russian Federation entered the city, when there was only one there it was leaked, everyone who was in the city, all the people, either dropped eskis, or called, or dropped videos, civil defense, frykor, krakin, well, that is, everything, everything, everything united, and there was only one task, to destroy the city, and so it will be with everyone. Those people who remained in kharkiv at that time, i would say, we they probably took, well, every 10th, they couldnt take more, well, the state didnt allow it, each of the servicemen, first of all, went deliberately, understanding that he was really risking his life completely, but they also went with faith in the fact that what, who will fight back to save kharkiv, experience. There was no demonstration of combat operations, but there was very high motivation, time passed, time passed, and we began to carry out more active actions, we began to move from defense to certain offensive actions , you were walking against the enemy, its such a feeling, im from kharkiv and it was the direction in which i spent my childhood, everyone was local , and there was no need for any maps, everyone knew for sure that we could pass through this stream, go behind the enemys rear, and this forest, it is not passable, and we will be able to see on the way out of the forest, these are all such examples that they played a role. The first time you crossed the district road in the area where we are not there, where everyone says the enemy is there, you cant go there, we crossed quietly, walked 100150 m along the pasture, had such pleasure, went through such a climb, it replaced plot, mined district, further movements began, further, further, further, an attempt, if now, but no, come on, the enemy realized that he could not take the city of kharkiv, and he began to destroy the symbols of state power, these are missile strikes on the administration of the first number, this is the first march and a few hours later on the same day, these are rocket attacks on the Kharkiv City Council , and there are schools where 16 shelters, 16, there are houses on ragana , here is the ring road, here are standing, their troops are firing at highrise buildings with direct fire, around the apartment house, apartment house, apartment house, huge too. Residential house, house, house, house, house, bang, and, death , tell me what it is, and the playground that was built this year, where i walk with my child, where my wife plays with her child, mother, constant artillery fire , constant shelling of tanks , almost from direct fire, they shelled just leaving in a drunken moire and with a tank, shooting where it hit, pounded on nine floors, but it was very, very, very painful to watch. The civilian population is the civilian population, and they do not understand what is happening, sometimes it can be that they may come under fire, for example, enemy fire, you know, when there is, for example, a shooting battle, but they worry, run, move, because they heard somewhere that there was a mech in the city, you know, they shot in one place, you showed him that you shot next to him, and he starts to move, it is very problematic for them, for us, for the special forces, no, it is not a problem for us, our work is so structured that we only work against the enemy, we we see the goal and we work, the battles took place, not on the road of kharkov in the city, in the city itself, and the city then suffered a lot from airstrikes from missile strikes , and the artillery reached completely to any point in the city, kharkiv was broken, and eh, such areas as saltivka were completely destroyed. 150,000 residents of the city of kharkiv now add up to 150. In the second decade of march, the first plane was shot down, we captured this acting regiment commander, and we drove him around the city, showed that it was him, that he was his crew, and that is, he personally conspired and, the link in which he led, what conspired, specifically they showed the objects, and the kindergarten and the school, it was clear that he was not himself, but he was ready for such a trip, but how many people are lying there and how many are there, it is only here , how much and in general what they did, there are no words even under by flights, under shrapnel, under shells, delivered humanitarian aid, helped people, evacuated. From pynichno saltovka, from pethatok, from raganni, from these cities , which were under constant shelling, during sunday there, more, constantly, in fact, in the first two days, the shelves of stores were emptied and supermarkets, and a millionstrong city needs something to eat, food is not imported, because in fact, in two days, in three days, we have two destinations left. The free ones are not occupied, they are the kyiv direction and the dnipro direction. I remember the first days of the war, when almost all bread factories stopped working, because there was no certain supply of flour, and i sent bag trucks to the khp, and they were shot there. From other cities, in our region, we brought flour and gave it to the bakery, and they baked bread for us, and we delivered it for free, for free, and people gave out, very grateful to our business , which i remember, they told me, listen, open our stalls, take sausages, take away, give out to people, take food there, other food, give out to people, and we had to actually. Hold half rings defense one, providing food to people two, delivering humanitarian aid to people who cannot get it, three, a rocket flew into the water supply, we need to, i say, do it in such a way that we can enable our utilities to restore. Work for two days, and thats it the territory was occupied, i turned to the military, and for several days they held this territory, which they were recapturing, at the cost of lives, but they restrained the onslaught of the enemy, our Communal Service did. And they did it, and the city didnt even feel that way, didnt Pay Attention to it, that it was like that , there were marauders who just walked, hit shop windows, asked to rob something somewhere, the police tried to fight them. The police were in the city, its, you know, when people see the police on the street, they understand that everything is fine, the government, its in place, cleaned up there were collapses, collapses, asphalting, because it is important for people to see that we are working , then they have. Other emotions, when there is power, when there is work, when people see all this, then they see what they want to live, we are almost there for one dream, and ours is very close, desires as strong as love will help us reach, and our height will be taken, and everything will be fine, for each of us, and everything will be fine, and somewhere 150,000 people tried constantly in the subway. It was necessary to remind. Place all, except that make it so that there are none infectious diseases, intestinal bacilli and so on, and we succeeded, there were moths, we treated them, besides, we evacuated, evacuated, i want to say, because a lot of people were leaving the city, trains were organized and we evacuated them through the metropolitan stations, through the tunnels of the metropolitan. There were attempts to obtain permission for the socalled green corridors, which frankly did not work for us in any region, immediately there was a humanitarian convoy or an evacuation convoy, when we sent them according to the previous alleged agreement, and with the occupier, they were on the first roadblocks either delayed them, or simply do not believe their empty promises, the promises of those people, at whose hands the death of thousands of innocent civilians, the death of children, we will definitely fight back and give them a worthy response, victory will be ours, never i will forget how women, women, children are standing, we all surrounded them like that and they say, we will definitely come back, we will come back. To ukraine, lets return to our ukrainian city of kharkiv. Of course, this is the month of may, this is the first part of the deoccupation, we had two of them. This is a successful counteroffensive and liberation of ours the territory of the north and a little northeastern direction, the same circuses, and other settlements, and of course we pushed the enemy a little away from the city of kharkiv, when we had antiaircraft fire, airstrikes, tank strikes, mortar strikes, artillery strikes every day. We were tasked with going to kharkiv in order to unblock the city from the north and push the enemy away from the city to the border as much as possible. We visited during the day, the city was dead. It reminded me, kyiv itself is such a critical moment, the city is dead, completely deserted. In general, we had about 300,000, 300,000 inhabitants, and before the war we said that there were about one and a half million, but this is without students , without people who were constantly here, we had a city of about 2 million, the city was completely empty, you go, you go to the cars on the street there is no one, no cars, no people, no one at all. And when we drove in, the shelling of the enemy just began, artillery shelling of the enemy, the first days of the shelling were enormous, the city was just buzzing , everything was running, siren after siren, siren after siren, the main task was to overcome this threat and push the enemy away from the immediate cities, to the maximum extent, in order to, well, ensure safety. Lives of the people of kharkiv, and we realized that there were certain holes in the enemys defense, after we regrouped, how we took up the defense, a decision was made together with khakin, respectively, together with