Two days of hell: As the Armed Forces fighter with a call sign "Fin" survived after several ball wounds (photo)

He was given the title Hero of Ukraine for his exploits. In the war, a fighter since 2015, where he first served in the National Guard, and later transferred to the battalion of the name of Hero of Ukraine, Major-General Sergey Kulchytsky as a airline platoon operator. According to the soldier, on May 23, 2022 the unit was tasked with cleaning the forest strip near the village of Yakivka, Donetsk region. However, as it turned out later, there was an enemy ambush there.

They had to go under a dense hostile fire and through a minefield. As a result, one brothers died, the fighter with the call sign "Azov" was injured. During the evacuation of "Azovchyk" the wound was "Finn". "Socrates and I pulled the" Azovichka ". I kept a machine gun, covering the departure. At some point, the hostile ball went through the barrel box of the machine and crushed the index finger of the right hand. It was held only a glove.

They laid the turnstile and continued the evacuation," Dmitry recalls. After that, he got another wound - the bullet fell in his left hand and crushed the bone of the forearm, going through the case under the clavicle and flying inside out. Then it turned out that there was another hit on the body, but under his clothes was not immediately noticeable. Due to blood loss, he fainted, from time to time he came to his senses and saw that his brothers were pulled and tried to help.

Dehydration began through the heat. The military was given the grass to get at least some moisture and put cool grass on the forehead. At some point, Socrates went forward and came across the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, they killed him. In the radio station, they said that the fighter was dead and that they had shot all the wounded. Because of this, the Finn evacuation operation was stopped and called artillery on the battlefield so that the invaders depart.

"Fin" and "Azovchik" remained alive and reached. "It was unrealistic to crawl with two damaged hands. One and a half days, when there were some forces, he tried to go. He took two or three steps, fainting, he came to his senses and went again . . . at night he froze heavily-the temperature fell up to 4 degrees Celsius, and I was only in wet from the blood of the pits. In addition, the mosquitoes were annoyed. They saved the mosquito net that was with me. Having spent a pile of forces, pulled it on itself.

On the second day the wounded left hand swollen so that it seemed to me because of unstable consciousness that it was a PCM, and still interfered with a damaged finger - it was holding on the skin, some dirt and grass were stuffed with the wound. I tried to cut it, but than constantly fell from the clamped knees - it was not enough forces. At some point he came across a puddle in the grass.

The water was stagnant, she had faded, gave it with hydrogen sulfide, but what she was delicious! At some point, the "Finn" began hallucinations. It seemed to him that he saw the fighters who offered him to save him, but they went. So two days have passed. Finnashin understood that he could not survive another night. However, it helped him that he was in the same area where there was a fight. The terrain was quite passing.

On the morning of May 25, he was discovered by the fighters of the assault-assault brigade, who saved him. At first, "Finn" thought it was the occupiers and thought it was his death, but when he saw the Ukrainian unicorn, he realized that it was salvation. Further, the fighter was waiting for the hospital, amputation of his arms and finger, and from there to the Hospital Mechnikov in the Dnieper. Doctors called the fact that he survived, miracle.

Finn had dehydration, poor kidneys, the body was exhausted with sepsis, and gangrene developed on the amputated hand. "I was so happy that I remained in this world that I was hardly bothered by phantom pain, which is very infrequent. I was enough for a few a few visits to a psychologist to overcome them," Fin says. We will remind, on March 15 the Armed Forces destroyed the Russian Su-24 fighter under Bakhmut mercenaries of PEC "Wagner".