The operation was carried out for several days. As the de -occupation of Kharkiv region began - says the leader of the honor

I have to ask you, can you tell where you are? What are the circumstances where are you where you are now? Video of the day - I'm in Kharkiv region, on the first line. Now the line is built along the Oskol River. What's going on? This operation has been planned for a long time, maybe a few secrets, it was even transferred for a few days for certain reasons.

Personally, when I heard about her for the first time, I was very pleased that the counter -offensive began not only in the south, but also in the east. The plan was very ambitious, in fact it happens: the second army of the world just runs, throws its people, equipment, weapons, throws a very rare weapon that we managed to capture and escapes.

So now there are places where the fighting continues, it is difficult to call it in the understanding of such battles, which we saw in Serebryanka, Bigorivka, in Lisichansk, Severodonetsk. This can be described more as cleansing from the occupiers, which are hidden in the cellars, dressed in civilian uniform, which were forged in forests, in forest strips and so on.

- I wonder if you can tell you how this active phase of counter -offensive started for you and your unit? If we understand everything right here, it all started on September 8, where did it all start for you? - For me, it started with the liberation of Balakliya, we and I came in the morning and became entrenched in the arsenal, it is a warehouse in Balakliya, where there was weapons that was held by militants.

And then all the days I go as one, I do not know what day of the week, I do not know what number even now. On some days we managed to sleep a lot, one day more precisely, in the other days I slept for several hours, today I also slept for several hours. We are constantly going forward, forward, forward, that's.

- To what extent are you from how they began to flee, how much they were ready for such powerful actions from the Armed Forces? - When I saw those fortifications that they have when I saw that number of equipment, we everyone saw on the Internet that there was already a discussion even in Russian TV programs that a counter -offensive was being prepared. Personally, I thought that a very difficult bloody resistance from the occupiers would be waiting for us.

But when we started to break them and they began to flee, I was very pleasantly impressed and I think it was a great merit of the leadership of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the great merit of Zaluzhny and many, many commanders who planned this operation. It is also very important that it is a great merit of volunteers, because we used the devices of night vision, machines, shape, we were heated by thermal underwear, which was transmitted by volunteers.

And we were very warmed by all the support of Ukrainians, millions of Ukrainians who worked for us and rejoiced in our success. - Do you understand what the mistake of the Russians was? Now they will probably do some work on mistakes. Why did they not expect our actions so much? - The situation with the victory of Ukraine is inevitable, I have no doubt and there was no doubt from the first day.

I did not know at what point we would be able to stop them, but I knew for sure that we would conquer our territory back and everything, including Crimea, Donbas, and Lugansk, would be released. I want to tell one story that very much motivates me personally, and the presence of units such as, for example, the 80th airborne assault brigade in the Ukrainian army, many other brigades. They give very great motivation, very great faith in the Armed Forces.

For example, there is such a very small village of Verkhnyamyanskoe, located near Lisichansk. I saw the heroism of these guys, who motivates, gives faith to the Armed Forces. When one battalion was held on a day for four tank attacks, when 10 tanks were riding, just a sea of ​​infantry, the boys kept their teeth in the ground, despite the wounded, the dead, they were able to defend a small village The place from where we will start the liberation of Luhansk region.

And I can tell such stories a lot when we mean Ukrainians, armed forces, heroically fight for every inch of our land. As for Russian, we saw the situation when they retreated from Kyiv, Sumy, Chernihiv. It showed that these people did not have such motivation as we have, so these events in Kharkiv region are natural, they will continue, both in Kherson, and in the Donbass and so on.

- The Kharkiv region appeared [information], as if the Russians want to leave Kharkiv region completely, they call it a curtain. Do you believe it really happens? What will it mean to us? - They really have no choice. If they do not escape, they will be dead here or sit in captivity. There are quite a few motivated and strong organisms, units that are strongly set to release Kharkiv region and then move a little lower.

What will it mean? Obviously, the Russian troops are completely demoralized now, they fell, if in simple words. Now we need to use this moment, go further, further, to liberate our country. - I know for sure that you were captured by the invaders. What is the captive, what kind of people? - These are ordinary situations that are trivial now when Russian soldiers dress in a civilian form and try to escape.