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[00:00:11] So Koshevich, Koshevich, look, we need to sort through this junk,
[00:00:15] you'll check your stuff, there are some grasshoppers lying around, grasshoppers
[00:00:18] to pack, you remember, right? And send them off. Get undressed, eat,
[00:00:22] rest, and let's go to work. 12
[00:00:25] by 70 rounds are needed, well, that's already
[00:00:27] in the armory.
[00:00:39] Well, my first contract is almost up, it ends on June 1st, so there's just about a month
[00:00:43] left. My contract ends on May
[00:00:46] 1st. How old are you? 18. 18.
[00:00:50] 21, well, I turned 21 right at the position in February.
[00:00:54] So, how did you... were you called up for conscription? No, no, I
[00:00:58] came myself, I came myself. Where are you from?
[00:01:00] Novoshakhtinsk, Rostov region. Oh, close by. Yes, you're from Mytishchi,
[00:01:03] Moscow region. It pulled me in, yes.
[00:01:07] Well, what can I say, it just happened. My great-grandfather, grandfather, and father
[00:01:10] all fought, and now it's my turn. There is a flow of
[00:01:14] really young people, really
[00:01:16] eighteen and nineteen-year-olds. Well, this just goes to show that
[00:01:20] this generation, which is completely
[00:01:23] new, yes, it's much healthier than the previous one, than the generation
[00:01:27] that grew up absorbing the values of
[00:01:31] the nineties. But the generation that grew up already, well, let's say, in
[00:01:34] Putin's, yes, if you can put it that way, yes, society, in
[00:01:37] Putin's world, it's much more resilient in terms of psyche and truly
[00:01:41] patriotic.
[00:01:43] These young guys are coming, and it's good that they're coming, it's great. It's terribly
[00:01:47] sad when they die, it's true. When
[00:01:50] an eighteen-year-old guy is wounded, and it's impossible to reach him, for example,
[00:01:54] but we can't pull him out, right, he understands that basically
[00:01:57] he's done for. He unties himself, on himself. They live and say,
[00:02:01] "Farewell, forgive me," well, that
[00:02:04] happens, yes, this is a real
[00:02:06] case.
[00:02:08] It's a shame, of course, yes, it's a pity
[00:02:10] for such people.
[00:02:16] What a hello, hello. Who gave it to you? Who gave you
[00:02:20] your nephew? My nephew, yes. My amulet,
[00:02:23] guardian angel. What's your name? My name is Amir.
[00:02:26] Amir, Tatar? No, who?
[00:04:44] so that the guys don't lack anything.
[00:04:47] They don't see or hear us, but we have to make
[00:04:50] the delivery, we have to deliver it at any cost,
[00:04:53] yes.
[00:05:02] Because a person always wants
[00:05:05] to eat and drink,
[00:05:08] and there are other merits, others, us.
[00:05:12] We, we are like secret special forces, we can't
[00:05:16] be shown. Go ahead and unpack.
[00:05:33] Come on, come on, yes, come on.
[00:05:36] Guys, may God grant them health, they're great, they're the rest,
[00:05:40] how much does it shake their psyche. Every time they want to kill them, they still
[00:05:44] carry it, even the car is not as important to us as the lives of
[00:05:47] the guys, the soldiers.
[00:05:50] This is Kuba, call sign, this is a shooter also
[00:05:53] from the Diesel detachment, a professional hunter. By the way, yesterday
[00:05:57] was the hottest day, I almost got killed yesterday.
[00:06:00] Again. Again. Tell us
[00:06:02] what happened. Well, what happened?
[00:06:06] What happened? What?
[00:06:09] We went, something was loaded. Loaded.
[00:06:26] I saw a "zhdun" sitting in front of us on the road. Stop, stop,
[00:06:29] stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop.
[00:06:33] Where straight? Take
[00:06:34] the rifle. Where? There it
[00:06:38] flies. So I decided to go.
[00:06:42] To call it to me, it was a child of the farm there, so
[00:06:46] let's get closer, I'll go there for
[00:06:49] reconnaissance if anything.
[00:06:51] Well, walking through the grass was not an option, to bypass and cut through the fishing line,
[00:06:55] because you could step on a mine. So I went straight along the road, the bird rose,
[00:06:59] flew towards me, fire! No time to think.
[00:07:12] Who flew away. I hit it, it was probably three meters
[00:07:16] away, I don't know, maybe two. I thought yesterday, I thought there were
[00:07:19] 2 meters left until it. I hit it with the last bullet.
[00:07:22] Let's go. I had already
[00:07:24] said goodbye to life.
[00:07:31] With the last bullet.
[00:07:34] There was one, and one was, two, one of them cut
[00:07:38] the fishing line, smoking, one raised
[00:07:40] himself. Let's go,
[00:07:44] yes.
[00:07:47] What was your motivation to come here? All the normal guys are already
[00:07:51] at war, and I'm sitting around at home, so I decided to go. I didn't feel
[00:07:54] well, there was a certain feeling that I hadn't
[00:07:58] done something. The duty must be fulfilled, those are probably
[00:08:02] the words.
[00:08:05] Worthy, no, actually it's fun, it's, well, actually
[00:08:09] fun, yes, no, there are moments, of course, in those moments it's scary.
[00:08:12] Nobody will argue with that, it's always scary, but then when
[00:08:16] you're sitting, reminiscing, it's fun, it's
[00:08:18] somehow positive, well, interesting, but how much technology
[00:08:21] is here, all sorts of birds, not birds, they come up with, it's
[00:08:25] still interesting, as they say, it's war, either you or you get hit, you
[00:08:29] can't do anything about it. That's basically it, this is your
[00:08:33] rifle, the weather is good, the sky is dirty, that's it, we're loading, that's it.
[00:08:37] Are you ready? I'm not ready. Well, we have to. That's it, get in, yes, let's
[00:08:41] go.
[00:08:55] Going on a combat mission, our brigade protected it for
[00:08:58] hours, we went far ahead and for a long
[00:09:02] time we couldn't rotate
[00:09:04] them, they remained in
[00:09:07] their positions. The enemy started using kamikaze drones
[00:09:11] and FPV drones with drops
[00:09:14] to attack us. Immediately I lost one of my soldiers.
[00:09:18] He was a "200" from a drop. The drop was aimed at
[00:09:22] me, but the wind blew it a bit off course, he was next to me, the drop fell on him,
[00:09:25] he died. I was hit by shrapnel. For 5 days
[00:09:29] they didn't let us leave, the enemy was shelling us. A helicopter attacked
[00:09:33] us twice, it was like hell there. One
[00:09:36] guy, a "first-timer" as we call them, a new recruit
[00:09:40] was with me, well, he cried, I remember he was really crying... he was scared, I said, "Don't
[00:09:43] be afraid." He was lying next to me under the plate, he
[00:09:46] got frostbite, they just removed the phalanges of his toes, yes, from one foot,
[00:09:50] they amputated half of my foot. He massaged
[00:09:53] my legs, he looked after me there, massaged. My circulation was already
[00:09:56] impaired from the injury. On January 7th, it was a
[00:10:00] holiday, God gave us good weather. At 2 AM
[00:10:04] we left, no one knew the way. I escorted them,
[00:10:07] led the guys. The mortar also started firing there, it's like
[00:10:11] standard, steady. Right
[00:10:25] there, my body was severely hypothermic. I was lighting
[00:10:28] with this lighter, a flashlight, and one of my legs was completely bare, I couldn't
[00:10:32] feel it. My shoe had been blown off, my shoe size was 41, but my leg became something like
[00:10:36] a size 45, it started to swell. So I went out
[00:10:39] barefoot like that, then in Bogdanovka, in the populated area, I
[00:10:42] fell right onto the road, onto the tank track.
[00:10:46] That's it, and the guys hugged me, they were breathing on me, I'll never forget
[00:10:49] them breathing on me, warming me up with their warmth, they hugged me,
[00:10:53] warmed me up, and then they brought me to the stabilization center. Everything
[00:10:57] is serious, they say, it will be 100% amputation. Well, I already understood that, I was ready.
[00:11:00] The main thing is to be alive, well, they were waiting to see how far the gangrene would go.
[00:11:04] The leg was rotting very badly. I endured it for 2 weeks, like, how far this stage would go, and
[00:11:08] from there to there they would cut.
[00:11:10] The doctors fought for my leg, like, they saw that I wanted to keep working,
[00:11:14] and all that, and so, well, they cut off as much as they
[00:11:17] could save. Despite having a prosthesis, he serves in
[00:11:20] the brigade, also performs tasks, goes to the
[00:11:23] LBS. No one would say that...
[00:12:25] There was a task to allocate several soldiers for reinforcement, I
[00:12:28] am the chief of staff, and we were the first to sign up
[00:12:32] for this list, we went on this list, yes. So there's
[00:12:36] no such thing as "I'm an artilleryman, let the grass not grow,"
[00:12:39] we don't have that. We all fight, we are all
[00:12:42] here.
[00:12:45] And how did you become a deputy? How did it happen? Well, I've already gone through all levels
[00:12:48] of legislative power, through elections, to the State
[00:12:52] Duma.
[00:12:54] Here we have? Medicine. Ah, well, thank
[00:12:57] God, as you can see, all beds are free. Here's Galyunya,
[00:13:01] currently two of our soldiers are recovering in Luhansk. During evacuation,
[00:13:04] they were extracting a soldier, and he became a
[00:13:08] "300."
[00:13:10] He broke his ribs during the attack.
[00:13:12] It happened
[00:13:17] last
[00:13:18] week.
[00:13:22] One died immediately.
[00:13:25] Oh no, we had one then, yes, the loader
[00:13:29] died immediately. No, he didn't, he didn't
[00:13:32] die immediately, they managed to get him to the stabilization
[00:13:35] point, and during the operation,
[00:13:39] yes, unfortunately.
[00:13:42] There were attacks by two birds, they managed to hit one bird, but they simply didn't
[00:13:46] see the second one.
[00:13:53] 412 left 030.
[00:14:03] I am proud, I feel comfortable in terms of understanding
[00:14:07] where I am, I see that there is a very competent and professional
[00:14:10] team, the commander himself has been here since 2015,
[00:14:13] meaning he is a true professional, he clearly understands
[00:14:16] where there are minuses, where there are plusses, and these plusses need to be used
[00:14:20] in a professional team, I am the political deputy, deputy
[00:14:23] commander for political affairs.
[00:14:32] Until you asked, I didn't even notice the difference between
[00:14:35] people here, I just see a
[00:14:38] true professional, someone experienced, as they say, and someone
[00:14:41] who is still, let's call it,
[00:14:44] a semi-finished product. The first task is for the semi-finished product
[00:14:48] to be next to professionals, and the second is for him
[00:14:51] to be comfortable when...
[00:15:37] conversations beyond borders.
[00:15:41] Some were formal, some tense, some
[00:15:44] difficult, but all of them
[00:15:48] mattered. They chartered India's
[00:15:52] path and how the world
[00:15:55] responded. Foreign policy isn't theory,
[00:15:59] it is lived in arguments, in
[00:16:03] decisions and in their consequences.
[00:16:07] it's
[00:16:27] State Duma. I am the commander of the State Council, regional
[00:16:30] level, our chief of staff is a municipal deputy, we
[00:16:34] even have administrative employees. The president serves
[00:16:38] in the brigade, it doesn't matter if you're a businessman, a deputy,
[00:16:41] an official, we all work in positions
[00:16:45] that correspond to our qualifications, meaning we have
[00:16:48] deputies or
[00:16:52] officials who work directly in the field,
[00:16:55] infantry,
[00:16:57] artillery.
[00:17:04] Throughout the development of my platoon, I was directly present at the LBS. I prepared
[00:17:07] dugouts for the guys, sawed, and dug, and
[00:17:11] was directly with them, although at that moment I had duties here
[00:17:14] as well. Well, everyone understood perfectly that we needed to set an example for the guys,
[00:17:18] so that there would be respect, first of all, in voluntary formations, they must
[00:17:22] respect the commander, because well, a soldier simply won't perform, well, not that he won't perform
[00:17:25] tasks, but he will perform tasks inefficiently.
[00:17:29] Well, the personnel, in any case, of course, yes, the older ones in positions, they
[00:17:33] hold back, they give understanding to the newcomers, especially since
[00:17:36] we have a lot of young people here.
[00:18:07] They barely caught the frying pan, when I came in, when we came with you,
[00:18:10] the chief, the artillery commander was also
[00:18:13] sweeping, as if, right? My friend, what are we going to do? Look,
[00:18:17] you see, look, what, yes, everything is not a friend, oh oh, wow, they even
[00:18:20] expanded it, darn it,
[00:18:23] uh-huh. So they didn't block anything,
[00:18:26] заложили,
[00:18:29] well, there was only one block there, so you have to hit from above, not through
[00:18:32] the bags. Alright, we'll fly off now. The enemy's
[00:18:36] manpower, lay it down.
[00:19:07] probably faded into the background, he now directly
[00:19:11] commands a separate UAV detachment,
[00:19:14] and he himself
[00:19:17] is engaged in burning enemy tanks.
[00:19:20] противника,
[00:19:27] No, no, no, spin it, spin it, come on, kid, come on,
[00:19:30] kid.
[00:19:32] Come on, come on, come on, come on, yes,
[00:19:36] yes.
[00:20:03] Well, it so happened that I lost my tank, the chief of staff came up and said, "We
[00:20:06] need. There's this drone, well, they called it a bird
[00:20:09] among the people. Can you master it?" I said, "Well, let me try." From that moment on,
[00:20:13] we started correcting tanks from closed positions. All
[00:20:17] the UAV operators were some kind of tankmen, a signalman, for example,
[00:20:20] a cook, or the same tankmen, for example, well, they took people who were more or less good at
[00:20:24] it. All this started to develop quickly,
[00:20:28] and by the end of 2023, it had already become the
[00:20:31] basis. And they are already flying over, yes, they have
[00:20:33] flown over, but this is radio, well, radio, I
[00:20:36] understand, fly closer,
[00:20:38] fly closer.
[00:20:43] Yes, the toilet is still working, through the internet. So,
[00:20:47] basically, we'll be leaving soon.
[00:20:51] During my service, we had an offensive on Krasnohorivka, at that time in the
[00:20:55] South Donetsk direction, and at that time I was studying,
[00:20:58] defending my master's thesis, yes, I have three higher
[00:21:01] education degrees. Right in the dugout, my
[00:21:04] commission from the Donetsk National Technical University is sitting there, I have an arrival there, and we just
[00:21:08] had an offensive. I kicked the guys out, and at that time I was already the platoon commander, well, of course, so I
[00:21:12] kicked the guys out to another room, they were controlling it, and we had
[00:21:15] arrivals there, they didn't understand what was happening, earth was falling from the ceiling, and I
[00:21:18] was defending my master's thesis from...
[00:21:51] This is such a large outskirt that not every bird can
[00:21:54] fly over it. Three whole
[00:21:56] ones flew over.
[00:23:20] Well, because there were already Serbs here, like two or three people,
[00:23:24] well, through connections, here and there, where to go, they said, "Well, it's normal there," I said, "Well,
[00:23:28] I have my own, I'll go." That's how I ended up here.
[00:23:32] I arrived in 2020, came to
[00:23:35] Russia, I'm from Western Ukraine, I came to
[00:23:39] Mariupol, the war started, well,
[00:23:43] I stayed, I thought, why would I go there?
[00:23:46] Hatred.
[00:23:49] Because subhumans
[00:23:52] kill, rape,
[00:23:56] well, as they like it, these are people, but
[00:23:59] there are simply non-humans. If a person comes from Russia
[00:24:02] there, it's over, they can cut you, they'll do something
[00:24:06] else, people are like that. And what was your
[00:24:09] motivation? My citizen, you know, brother, how can
[00:24:13] there be no motivation, a citizen of Russia, of course, I found out
[00:24:16] that, damn, you can serve and become a citizen, I thought, well... my
[00:24:20] thing, I'll go, well, at the same time I'll pay my debt to my new homeland,
[00:24:23] well, it's all together, well, and
[00:24:26] we're those kind of guys, we love action,
[00:24:48] like the previous one, huh?
[00:25:20] Yes, come in, guys. Well, tell me, where did
[00:25:24] it come from? Serezhko-Donetsk direction, from
[00:25:27] the channel, during operational reconnaissance, a
[00:25:30] flag was detected. Well, we thought, Ukraine doesn't have
[00:25:34] enough of it yet, no, it has it, it's there on that previous
[00:25:37] one. And weren't Americans attached to the flag,
[00:25:41] mercenaries? Not yet, we haven't encountered them yet.
[00:25:45] Not yet, not yet. Well, as far as we
[00:25:47] know, already according to...
[00:26:02] who have a different view of the past than
[00:26:05] us, a different view
[00:26:08] of the future. They betrayed, not just us,
[00:26:12] yes, those who live
[00:26:15] now, they betrayed the
[00:26:18] generations behind them, they
[00:26:22] betrayed their fathers, and grandfathers, and great-grandfathers, and
[00:26:25] great-great-grandfathers, all those who defended
[00:26:29] Russia, Greater Russia, which includes... both
[00:26:32] Great Russia, and Little Russia, and Belarus, and many other
[00:26:35] things, because they betrayed all these people,
[00:26:39] who fought for a thousand years for us to have a country,
[00:26:43] and our own culture, our own art, our own
[00:26:47] faith, our own understanding of things, our own
[00:26:50] worldview.
[00:26:55] Now I want to become a deputy of the State Council
[00:26:58] in civilian life, that is, we need to achieve the completion of the special military
[00:27:02] operation. Achieve victory and return to civilian life. I
[00:27:05] want to be the husband of my wife, the father of my
[00:27:09] children, a deputy of the State Council. I want
[00:27:12] to live a normal civilian life under
[00:27:15] a peaceful sky. That's what I dream of
[00:27:18] now.
[00:27:22] Do you have a dream? Oh, a dream...
[00:27:26] Damn, I do have one, probably, of course, everyone has
[00:27:29] one, but I have a lady of my heart, as they
[00:27:32] say. I need to get married, I'm already of age, soon, damn,
[00:27:36] 24 years old, and I haven't
[00:27:39] married yet.
[00:27:46] That is, so that people learn to love,
[00:27:49] everyone. Love will save this world, that's the main
[00:27:53] dream. And otherwise,
[00:27:56] a large family, a strong
[00:27:59] family, four sons, a little daughter...
[00:28:02] such a huge house, a huge
[00:28:05] tree next to the house and that everyone be
[00:28:09] happy, happy and that children don't
[00:28:12] see this.
[00:28:15] A dream is something unattainable, like, I don't know,
[00:28:18] flying to space, hypothetically. Everything else is a task, I want it,
[00:28:22] but I need to do one, two, three and
[00:28:23] I'll get it.
[00:28:27] Thank you. Mom is waiting for sisters, three,
[00:28:30] three sisters, yes, that's fine. I have
[00:28:33] older than you, yes, well, my wife also has sisters, my
[00:28:36] relatives, my grandmother is waiting, do you have a dream?
[00:28:39] What dream? I don't know, damn, a dream, well, this dream
[00:28:43] came true, right? We became soldiers, I had a dream to
[00:28:46] serve in the Serbian special forces, it somehow didn't work out, so I'm serving in the Russian special forces.
[00:28:50] My dream is to return alive and well
[00:28:53] with victory, of course, and with a state
[00:28:56] medal.
[00:28:58] Of course, family, children,
[00:29:02] victory, very, this is the most important
[00:29:05] dream, that our swift victory
[00:29:09] comes. Everyone supports me, most importantly, my whole family
[00:29:12] supports me, my whole family is proud, I know everything, and that's enough
[00:29:15] for me, actually.
[00:29:32] now I think that this um um hegemonic
[00:29:35] kind of mindset um is um deeply
[00:29:39] um within Donald Trump's personality. Um he think
[00:29:43] that the American of course is is is still the the greatest and
[00:29:47] most powerful country on the planet and and the United
[00:29:51] States according to his him and his
[00:29:54] followers has been short changed by is even by his
[00:29:57] allies so it's now um incumbent
[00:30:00] upon him to change that by maximizing American's dominance.
[00:30:18] He should have an election, and he can't raise the price of
[00:30:22] oil, it's not enough. Donald
[00:30:25] Trump says Kiev needs a new leader as Washington agrees with Moscow to
[00:30:29] lift sanctions on imports of Russian diesel. That decision
[00:30:32] is deemed weak by Vladimir Zelensky and it prompts the
[00:30:35] Ukrainian delegation to immediately leave the United
[00:30:38] States.
[00:30:41] The Houthis warn shipping companies and airlines to not enter
[00:30:45] Saudi airspace and this comes after a devastating strike on
[00:30:49] Riyadh's main airport killing 12 people and wounding over
[00:30:52] 300. The Houthis confirmed to RT that they carried out the
[00:30:56] attack. These attacks are Yemeni attacks.