[000:00:00;00] well, what, well, fate is like this, we will all die in the end, for some reason there was such an emotion, and in the evening of the same day, the russians capture both checkpoints and come close to the city, if you walk through the forest for 300-400 meters, the railway is already a city, every checkpoint - this is the day that the glory of the guard company gave in order to prevent the entry of the enemy into the city . the next day, they still announce a 24 -hour curfew, and for the russians , the following appeals are heard from the loudspeakers: домой где тебя еще ждёт yours children and family were already standing near the city, two bmps

, five tanks, two armored personnel carriers, three tigers, there were somewhere around 11 pieces of equipment. we started bringing the equipment to the bridge just to make barricades on the mast so that it would be very difficult for them to pass through slavutych russian snipers are starting to work here, they are near the bridge, they shoot two soldiers , our guys, er, velvet, seryozha, and sasha zatsepin, they went to scout just under the bridge, and this moment happened just as the sniper fire killed sasha immediately killed and seryozha was wounded to take out the killed and rescue the wounded in his car senior combat medic volodymyr makarchuk sets out his car is also shot at seryozha barkhatov gave an injection and heard and they began to take them away from this city and at this time sniper fire is taking place, as

a result of which vova himself makarchuk was also wounded in the ambulance, already at the hospital itself. when they brought him, volodymyr died there , well, in the hospital, and seryozha, unfortunately, never made it alone, without support, without weapons, without protection, without any body armor, so that was it man he was a warrior, he was a fair man, he was so true and truthful, because he was so courageous, i say, and well , he was a patriot, he could not help a person, he would not be able to. bridge, but due to its proximity to residential areas, they were refused, and asked to strike at it . at that time, there was still a chance that we could somehow cope with the infantry.

they receive a command for the withdrawal of the three hails, a scout was deployed and there was a warning that if slavutych goes to street fights , the city will be destroyed with the help of hails, then we one such command was forbidden to open fire within the city in order to prevent deaths and casualties among the local population and i showed it to the senior commander and already somewhere around 5:00 p.m. i gave all the unit commanders the command to leave personally at the moment when i was well, when i heard this order for the first two minutes i could not agree with him well, because i didn't want to, because i wanted to leave and continue to defend the city to the last, somewhere in the depths of the rains, there was an understanding that i might not return to slavutych if they gave the command to stand, as they say, to the last, we would not go anywhere, street fights were introduced the only thing we could achieve was to put

the majority of the majority of the personnel against the security and provoke the orcs to destroy the city for physical massacres among the civilian population in general the phrase was like this you can stay conditionally 180 heroes posthumously and this good, but 188 who will continue to resist in other places in other directions where you will be more effective. well, it will be better for me in the city, especially i had a child and a wife. well, what can be the feeling when you seem to have a weapon, seem to have strength, but are forced to throw away your family and it is not clear what will happen here from slavutych, most of the soldiers of the guard company are leaving at this time , the mayor is going towards the city. i was returning to slavutych at a very high speed because they raised hai murphy, he ran away, and the mayor is not here

i had to go on the air, necessarily live, and tell the mayor everything on the spot, and at the roadblock from the other entrance to the city, he met our soldiers, who said that we have a command to leave the city on the night of march 25-26 , the mayor spends the evening of the 25th in dnipro. russian snipers are spotted on the roof of an unfinished hotel in the center of the city . a negative moment. an emotional moment. a difficult moment . peaceful protest, well tomorrow 9:00 a.m. peaceful protest, meeting on the square , we all leave, we all leave, the central square of slavutych, the place chosen for the rally against the russian occupiers, the

main administrative building of the city, the city council, is located here however , even the organizers of the rally do not believe in the probability of such a scenario on the morning of march 26, 2022, there were such conversations, something so gloriously pro-russian , the city is not even pro-russian, well, not much the root of the connection with russia in slavutych was scary. the first thing is that they, that there will be not enough of us ukrainians, yellow-blue , beautiful, brave, there was a lot of excitement because someone with a russian flag would not exhale. i say that i honestly thought that we were a pro-russian place. well so how can i honestly say that there are a lot of russians and i did not understand how we will treat this about slavutyka. many friends have pointed out to me so and so in such a way - are you ready to meet them with the russian flag in the sense of no, i frankly say that before the start of the war there was a lot people, at one time, were loyal to russia, this happened historically because

many people came from russia for the liquidation of the accident at the chernobyl nuclear power plant, well, if people were nostalgic for those times and when they were young and, well, you know, they asked to make sure that russia was not for us the enemy, what do we need to negotiate with russians in slavutych there have been many since the city was founded, here are the results of the 1989 census, there are more of them than ukrainians in 2001, the number of those who said russian in the nationality column is already 15% less, but it is still a third of the population in the last local elections of 2020 , representatives of the pro-russian psg won the largest number of votes, 26%. on the morning of march 26, even before the start of the rally, russian armored vehicles and a unit of the national guard entered slavutych. they wanted to take kyiv in three days. they took the city of slavutych in three days. well, they were able to take it only on the third day. the night before

entering the city, the russian military spends here in the forest near the tire of the center and gas stations stood here, changed clothes , many boxes were mostly from clothes before the event, the city put itself in order, perhaps it is indicative that it had to be done that they are so cool because after three days of the introduction of hostilities, you can understand in what condition they were . in the kyiv quarter, they were gathering for a rally , the dog was nervous, he was usually so calm , he came out of knu, he looked sitting under the piven, he was in the russian uniform, well, even here, even the dog understood that it was a bastard, he waved at me to go here he comes out, he said, father, open the door and i say what he is like well, we came here, we need to see what i say, you

can generally hear how i speak in what language and in what form i speak, in the crimea , they always accepted verna yes hear yes what ты сюда припёрся, he answered, well, with what. unfortunately, how much did i understand the order ? looks, they see a camera in my trunk and says don't come here don't come, why are they here , and who are they, and right here, right next to that tree, a sniper is standing with his rifle aimed at me, looking at us at the same time, i'm thinking what to do well, they are running, they will be shot, you and i went to the rally. yes, i came to the myths because

i knew what the sniper was doing. i walked in such zigzag movements so that the sniper didn't hit me, i don't know how much it helped, but i came to the square ago i guess this method still works, the mayor is also trying to get to the rally in the morning of march 26. he is leaving dniprovskyi for slavutych. uncle and here at this place three or four soldiers come out for a meeting, then i saw that there were at least two dozen of them there, and they pointed their weapons, they stopped here, and they tied the hands of this man who was with me and took the forest is a little deeper, there are already six people standing there

with their hands tied as well, they talked about the fact that we warned your military commissar and the mayor not to fight, we will not shoot , but they set up a military unit here, and at this moment i make a decision, as i say, there are no military men there, i am the mayor city , let us have your commander. at first , you were so confused. you definitely died . as they drove around the city, conflicting feelings, there was a desire to impress them, but i understood that i had an order not to open fire within the city limits, that is, i wanted to accept it, i wanted to, they were standing so close to the meters , probably 30 mm on the btriri guys, in

the absence of the mayor, the chief in the city remains his first deputy viktor shevchenko i remember that on that day i wished there were clouds because when people gathered , planes were circling over the city all the time. the first few dozen citizens who come to the square sing the national anthem and unfurl the blue and yellow flag and the fate of 30-40 people will smile on us brothers, that's the maximum that happened, that's all that i saw, but then people began to gather from all sides , as many as you can approach the square from everywhere, because you see, we are in the center of the city, and this is the central square of the city and

you can come here from all quarters look at how many people were on the square at the beginning of the rally and this is not the number of them literally in 10 minutes i was very surprised when i was standing here there was such a small stage and i was already standing on this stage and i saw that square well, there are no free ones well there is no free space because people were already standing in the park and people were not ending , they were added, they were added already at half past ten , there were about 5-6 thousand people when we met with the commander of the georgian military, they with drones from there were tablets, and i told him that do not shoot in the city, there are no soldiers there, you see that peaceful people have gathered there, he says, yes, there are 500 showers in the square, oh yes, 500 is already normal, but when i

saw how many of us there were, there were thousands i think it was there in the 90s, when the station still worked maybe at the concerts, well, jackson, for example, patricia kaas, gathered so many people. well, so that we understood. yes, who is viktor, to realize so many people, ukraine, and how the square shouted slavutych, this is ukraine. i am still here. it is something like that. who came to the rally, they were shocked by how much they rallied and how much they did not expect the russian occupier here on our land. i realized that even those who are from the russian world or remember what russians were too, i see them as a real indicator

of how people relate to the occupation, and they are beautiful. and you will believe that many of them could not come. that's how they stopped me, for example, there was a lot of people there , even more, half of the city gathered for everyone , for sure who came out that day to the square, this was a sign protest resistance, we will not give up our home, we will not give up our slavutych, because he is only our people , so many people come that there are enough ukrainian flags . we did not have more than 100 small flags on sticks, which we asked people they asked, asked, give, give something, we found something right away, you gave out minutes to everyone, well, that is, it was instantaneous, it was just you take it out and they immediately separated, and that's why we remembered about it our big flag with it's 100 m 100 by three , everyone tried to carry it to be near but all the same, it was not enough because there were very, very many people, and when they started to unfurl

our big hundred-meter flag, well , there was no way back. ukrainian paraphernalia is made even from garbage bags. olena zholdak brought them to the rally from our store there is a garbage sorting project and each piece of garbage is packed into different bags . there were blue and yellow bags, and these blue-yellow ones immediately caught my eye. the square and then people started coming up and asking. well, you are handing out flags there and i say they are not flags , they are garbage bags, but if you need me, please take it so that there is a little bit of everything, then when we realized that we needed more, we started to cut them, there were scissors i took we with me

they started to cut them to be a little shorter and then i raise my head and look. well, there are already so many people around that it seems like the whole city has turned out. we are just actions for the state. glory to ukraine glory to the russian military are reaching the city center, their armored personnel carriers and a truck are parked near the palace of children and youth in hundreds of meters from the square, people are going to meet the occupiers, then he said that they saw that everything was coming out of the corner and people were coming out , everyone had already left that we were grenades and shots were fired on top of the fear , there was no fear at all, then when after the rally itself, i was running around in my head that, well, anything could have happened, because, well, they were shooting there and over

the heads of the younger ones, what was it ? when they started shooting, i understand that they could not leave, but start shooting and go on the attack, well, what well, they threw a grenade at our feet, tears flowed, coughs started, but there was a covid mask in the jacket, and at that time it was not completely finished, everyone put on put on a mask and went on . they started for the first time, we saw that the car passed the first couple of meters back, it drove and only later when we saw that this car started to go in the opposite

direction, all this was a victory, already pride for our illustrious people, that no one was afraid, we had nothing, everyone was without weapons, there were no soldiers, and i realized that people are a great force of youth there were many, many, many men working at the chernobyl nuclear power plant, there were many and they were walking in front, the girls were already there, who was in front, who

was behind, but there were also many women, it was good too . there was shooting on the other side. the men in the first ranks went to the russian soldiers, it seems that somehow it was a little scary there. well, then, when the people in the back have support, it is very morally helpful. i am not alone in our country. i was very afraid for the youth . there were 9 children, and there were no more fines for them . okay. i've already lived my life, you can say it's already been lived, well, i'm already 60, well, for people in their 20s and 30s, the circle starts, and under the pressure of people, the technician is driving in reverse. one by

one , they throw light stun grenades. uh go home, go to my mother, go to my wife, not far from me stood this rashist , i don't want to call him by any other name. well, i looked into his eyes and thought, well, at the word mom, you must react somehow, yes, something in you must feel there, i then i already understood that if i had given the order to shoot not empty-handed, these guys would have carried out the order, slavuty is afraid, give me one of the grenades explodes near grigory hmm, they were burned , well, you were married, there was a harvest jacket on the leg

, there were a lot of point burns, and he became disoriented, we went further there to crossroads, well, i have a colleague i know, who is from the family, and even sometimes what they call her, she was also in the first rows, and she went out to them face to face and asked, guys, why did you come here? can you see who kicked you out, who forcibly forced themselves to come and stand here , they will direct automatic weapons at us, ukraine is free at this intersection, the russian convoy and

protesters are stopping at this time , the russian military is returning the mayor to slavutych, we ran to the commander kazhe we see that there are people there, but we see that there are people with machine guns among them. if we go, we will definitely not be fired upon, i say come on. yes, i go first, you follow me, i will shoot at me, you are in armor, i am without and we got into his tiger and drove to the city and saw this number of people , which brought tears to my eyes, just like that. and after we arrived, he took the megaphone in his hands and approached the people. i understand that this is my only chance not to return to them, but to remain people . well, when father came out with christ, it was just let them go home with god if it is possible, if it is not possible, they can walk at all, he said a phrase which the president then repeated, leave, if you can go, if i say so, my wife will divorce me, yes

, i was definitely ready to die at that moment , it will remain right for me, so i put on white robes and went there to try to do something it's good for uh, for our people, this is the cross with which we go out on the procession. well, it so happened that we carried this cross to the procession that was against the anti-insurgents and those who came to us from russian troops. to conclude the rally, they will remind him that they have crosses on them. because those people who wear crosses on themselves, believing people cannot do such things, these people have absolutely no right to call themselves christians , they serve the devil and are absolutely convinced that they serve god in the most terrible way in fact, this is a tragedy and this is a spiritual tragedy of the russian people, they will not continue to check houses for

the presence of weapons, they drove out about 50,100 people with automatic weapons with the help of a flag and talking to them to leave. there is such strength of spirit in of these people there was something, even a friend, zero, those who were with weapons, people needed to hear that slavutych remains a ukrainian city , i was worried because i was not sure that it would last long, i guess there were also thoughts at the time well, it is unlikely that i will live in this place if it remains under occupation, because the fact that they did not live in the city is the merit of the people who came to the rally , everyone understood that if they entered the city , they would wash, shave, and that would be bucha queue, the russians allow them to take the body of the fallen soldier oleksandr zatsepin search the manager of the emergency medical aid substation, tatyana kazarina, is driving him. she arrives at one of the addresses reported by the townspeople

. there she meets a russian soldier and it became dangerous for me . don't be afraid, i'm talking , i won't tell anyone, что ты такой, but i'm talking. before coming here to our land, you had to at least read the history of the country, the history of the city, the history of our city, i'm talking. we have 48 nationalities, and each of us has a bookmark here are the lands of ukraine . you will coordinate with him then, he says well, i don’t know, he will come, and i

say , he reaches out his hand. well, i’m here now, the government. yes , you came out with me. that people came out, why did so many people come out? they don't shoot. come on, i'll come to you with a weapon . once, talk to the whole city, say, "smirov, i'm coming and i 'll smile." several times they commented to me that how did i have the right to say such things to them on the evening of march 26, 2022, the president of ukraine volodymyr zelenskyi will begin his traditional video address with the words: free slavutych

, who will not be conquered by invaders, will become famous today, we were all together with you on your streets in your protest and everyone said together in the occupiers go home while you can walk , the russian military will spend one more day here in the forest near slavutych, on march 28 they will withdraw from these positions and flee together with by all the occupying forces that invaded the north of ukraine, they came, they are gone, they are gone, the trenches are all empty, the dugouts are all, and they are gone, they will leave garbage in the forest and such a message on the walls of the building where they were based during the battles for slavutych , four soldiers will die, four more will be captured and one will be injured at the rally

two people will be injured due to explosions of russian grenades on april 3 units of the armed forces will enter slavutych and the city will officially be bought by deo and at the end of july 2022 the city council will rename all the streets and quarters whose names are related to russia, and march 26 is now called one of the most important days in the history of the city in slavutych, the second day of the city can be counted accurately well, how correctly you determined this is an important date for slavutych march 26 is a date for the ages in slavutych, the city of slavutych indomitable city it showed that they are not ready to put up with what the russian offers peace is a great feat for our city, it is a very great feat what the civilians did, understanding and seeing all the anger and hatred towards us, what they are for some animal farms and what they did in buch in irpen is a great feat because people are not afraid for their own lives, they have no

weapons, they are just civilians and they come out and they show their position about ukraine, this is a city of heroes, a city of those who do not surrender and and it's probably still a city of those who now know for sure what's most important a-a vera i'm russian unfortunately i'm russian i have a ukrainian husband i have a son-in-law ukrainian i have grandchildren ukrainians here but i'm russian and we'll fight for this ukrainian land for a year you're waiting for victory, you you want to the occupiers left our land and you are indignant