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00:04:19like a relative, Koshchey treats not only a
00:04:22tank, but also every combat
00:04:25comrade. I managed to visit where
00:04:28the tankmen from his...
00:04:31Together with friends, circus artists and cinema, we even gave
00:04:34the guys a concert. When they brought us into a rather
00:04:38cozy, beautiful hall, we were, to put it mildly, shocked, because this is not
00:04:42a rear military unit club, but the front, and
00:04:46the auditorium and stage were underground. But what about the
00:04:49stage? The tankmen of Koshchey even have their own dental
00:04:53office, also underground, and they also have their own
00:04:57bathhouse, and such that many...
00:05:12to the bathhouse, the bathhouse, by the way, is one of the most
00:05:15visited places for the fighters to relax.
00:05:30We arrived at the
00:05:32battalion bathhouse.
00:05:36Well, just a little, yes, well, we had to
00:05:39build it, and there was a room, that is, for the personnel,
00:05:42uh, washing facilities, as they called them, their
00:05:46bathhouse. Four poles, covered with
00:05:49film, a stove in the middle. They called it a bathhouse.
00:05:53Ага, I come, guys, well, this is a washing room, I say, well,
00:05:56are you kidding me? There's a forest, everything is there, permission is there, I say, let's
00:06:00build a bathhouse, and how? We talked,
00:06:03communicated, found a couple of people in the battalion who were engaged
00:06:06in logging, engaged in timber. We went, selected, received
00:06:10permission, took out the timber. We processed everything, permission from
00:06:14the authorities - well, it's from the forestry,
00:06:17everything is done officially, that is, you can't do it any other way, well, we
00:06:21are no longer marauders, as they say, uh-huh, uh-huh, we received everything,
00:06:25brought everything, processed it, first assembled the frame outside,
00:06:27numbered it as
00:06:30it should be, disassembled it, assembled it already
00:06:33here, slowly built a bathhouse, well, with
00:06:37our tank helmets, friends, friends,
00:06:40look what a hat. tankmen
00:06:44should have, tankmen in the bathhouse,
00:06:47everything according to Feng Shui, do you have one like that? I
00:06:51don't, but I will
00:06:53soon.
00:06:57Cool, there's a hint. Well, the bathhouse is working, I
00:07:00feel, yes, they are drying it today,
00:07:04uh-huh, that is, the guys washed in the evening,
00:07:07a little dampness remained, this is all underground, there is the biggest
00:07:11problem, that is, this whole square we are standing on is underground,
00:07:14like, you know, like in a shower
00:07:18cabin, the frame is completely welded from iron, two
00:07:22pipes, it goes down there behind the bathhouse, there
00:07:26is even a lower pit, that is, all the water went away, then we throw it
00:07:30outside with a pump, that is, only in this way
00:07:32can I do it myself, well, I go about every 3 days, and so
00:07:36the schedule, each company goes every day, once a week the bathhouse is
00:07:40dried, that is...
00:07:42maintenance is going on, it's not working, that's it, it's been standing for a year,
00:07:46probably, yes, I won't say
00:07:50how deep we went down, this
00:07:53is unnecessary information for you, but I caught myself thinking
00:07:56that for the first time in a bathhouse deep underground,
00:07:59there is romance in it.
00:08:14Tell me, driving through a minefield, is it a special
00:08:17feeling? Driving through a minefield, especially when you
00:08:21understand it, it's a special feeling, I think I don't
00:08:25wish anyone to understand this, but you did it. It happened
00:08:29once. Tell me. Berdychiv, a settlement.
00:08:32There was an assault on the settlement. A tank entered,
00:08:36two IFVs. They worked as planned, the
00:08:39landing force disembarked. At the beginning of the operation,
00:08:42an ATGM hit this tank,
00:08:44птур,
00:08:47by God's grace, we were lucky, it hit the side, the
00:08:50reactive armor worked, so the tank remained
00:08:53intact. In this confusion, we just got a little lost,
00:08:55probably. We turned the wrong way.
00:08:59There were two main roads, one of them was a minefield,
00:09:02which no one could
00:09:05pass, but as a backup route, it was studied. When
00:09:08we reached the turn, I saw a burnt
00:09:12BREM. I realized that we were on this road, there was no other
00:09:15way. There was a way to go back, where
00:09:19the birds are trying to reach us anyway, and turn around
00:09:23and go to them again. Without telling the crew, I made
00:09:27the decision that we would go through the minefield myself.
00:09:30We went, turned right, went
00:09:32along,
00:09:35carefully passing, we met a FAB-3000,
00:09:39which did not reach this settlement.
00:09:43FAB is a shell almost the length of a tank,
00:09:46yes, along the entire width, how the track
00:09:49went, that's how the FAB lay, uh-huh, maybe
00:09:52they worked on it, well, the fact that it was lying there,
00:09:56to the right of it, about half a meter away, neatly lay a line of
00:09:59TM-62 mines, on the left -
00:10:01these are tank mines, TM-62
00:10:05tank mine, uh-huh,
00:10:07on the left was a rare forest belt, and it was unknown what
00:10:11was there. We decided to go through this forest belt, with
00:10:15God's help, we didn't fly to Mars.
00:10:19All the crews came back very pale.
00:10:22The next... when they were analyzing the whole
00:10:26situation, my commanders couldn't believe me, how could
00:10:29a BREM be burnt? I said we drove along the inner
00:10:33side, because there were TM-62 mines on the outer side. Then I said,
00:10:37four vehicles that we then just started to get, we called them
00:10:41golf carts, some burnt, some not. Then
00:10:45a Chupa Chups, I say, from the tank, from the turret, and what is a Chupa Chups? It's a very rare
00:10:49example, when the side of the tank
00:10:52is blown up and the turret is torn off.
00:11:25not do it the way it should have been done, so
00:11:29I made a decision, we worked, and with God's help
00:11:32we got there.
00:11:41Well, such events, do they temper you
00:11:45or make you more cautious? I'm just trying
00:11:48to understand, when you very quickly got into a difficult situation and
00:11:52almost died, why then... do you make
00:11:56a decision to go through a minefield? It's impossible
00:12:00to get used to it. That is, there's no such thing as fighting for a year,
00:12:03getting used to it intensively, and you're
00:12:06Rambo. You still need to overcome yourself every time, every sortie,
00:12:10every decision, every hit on you, every FPV flying
00:12:14by. You need to overcome
00:12:17yourself every time. I mean, FPV is our everything, as
00:12:21they say, lately. And after Berdyansk,
00:12:27I probably couldn't get myself
00:12:31to walk calmly for two months.
00:12:33I heard the sound,
00:12:37that's it, I froze. Only after several months did I overcome this
00:12:41fear, started walking calmly, when
00:12:44in the twenty-fifth year, it specifically attacked
00:12:47me, in the summer, I went
00:12:49hunting.
00:12:52I could already, I even surprised myself, that... at that moment
00:12:55I realized, I'm running away from it, that is, I'm not standing, not
00:12:59scared. I have a rifle, an M-4,
00:13:02I shoot, I don't penetrate it,
00:13:05a cartridge jam occurs, the shell did not
00:13:08fly out,
00:13:11in a second you won't fix it on an M-4. I understand that's it,
00:13:15I'm one-on-one with it, I dropped it and started yelling
00:13:19at it, I'm not going anywhere, leave me alone.
00:13:22Well, no one hears you there, you just see
00:13:26some fool screaming from below,
00:13:29that's it, it sped up and flew at me, I jumped under it,
00:13:33again, we constantly watch these videos where
00:13:36soldiers constantly try to dodge, do something
00:13:40else, I had a choice, I was standing near an apple tree, either jump
00:13:44under the apple tree or under it, from where it's flying. I
00:13:47chose to jump under it, and it thought I would jump under the apple tree,
00:13:51it flew exactly there, I flew in the opposite direction.
00:13:56Outsmarted, yes, yes, well, it turns out, yes,
00:13:59outsmarted once, well, I managed
00:14:03to fly away, but my leg didn't quite make it, a through
00:14:06fracture, but I only realized that when they evacuated me
00:14:09to Selidovo, that is, first I still walked 3 km
00:14:12back. The soldiers wanted
00:14:14to escort me, I yelled at them, nothing, I walked, sat
00:14:18down, drank some water, turned on a movie on my
00:14:21phone, lay in the clearing, waited until...
00:14:45The commander can apologize, yes, absolutely, not just
00:14:48can, this is probably one of the components, a bad
00:14:52commander, a boss who cannot.
00:15:25This is not just equipment, it is first and foremost people, every
00:15:29human life, therefore, well, I think everyone should live at
00:15:33least in a brigade, if at the brigade level, it should be one
00:15:36big family. Which we always strive for together
00:15:40with our commanders, superiors,
00:15:42deputies, everyone should help each other at
00:15:46their own level, only by joint efforts can we
00:15:50overcome all our obstacles. If everyone works,
00:15:54as they say, "my house is on the edge," then
00:15:57there will be no work. Thank you,
00:16:00thank you.
00:16:12I will not reveal military secrets if I say that large-scale
00:16:16tank battles and even tank duels remained
00:16:19in the history of the Great Patriotic War. However, the work of
00:16:23a modern tankman today is no less dangerous,
00:16:26in fact, perhaps even more so. In
00:16:29the era of drones, the tank and its crew are more
00:16:33vulnerable than ever. Guys,
00:16:36tankmen, we... are rooting for you and
00:16:40believe that soon you will return home safe and
00:16:43sound, but before that, friends, smash
00:16:47this entire neo-Nazi armada to smithereens, we
00:16:50know you can do it.
00:17:52On air is a unique project, I'm looking for my loved ones, you search, we
00:17:55find. Today we will recall the events that took place in
00:17:59the city of Volchansk, Kharkov region. To present us with a general
00:18:03picture of what is happening in this sector of the front, I will ask military
00:18:06correspondent for Krasnaya Zvezda and Rossiyskaya Gazeta, Amir
00:18:10Mengaliev, whom I invite to the studio.
00:18:12Let's welcome him. Hello
00:18:16Amir, in November 2025, in
00:18:20besieged Volchansk, almost no buildings remained
00:18:23intact. Ukrainian Armed Forces militants did not think about the civilians
00:18:26who did not have time to leave
00:18:28the city.
00:18:32Oksana Mikryukova, her husband, parents, and young
00:18:35daughter huddled in a half-ruined...
00:18:54Hold on, we'll get you out.
00:18:58How the family eventually managed to leave Volchansk, we will find
00:19:01out now. In the studio, Anatoly, Oksana and Kira Mekryukovy.
00:19:05Let's welcome them.
00:19:12Hello, hello, good afternoon, please, who
00:19:15do you want to meet in this studio today and
00:19:19why? Please, our saviors, those who
00:19:22pulled us out, these are our guys
00:19:25Tur, well Balu, well many
00:19:29others also participated, Al, yes,
00:19:31the guy who was specifically on the drone, well,
00:19:34he communicated with us, these are those very guys.
00:19:38who controlled the UAV, yes, yes, tell us, why
00:19:42did you find yourself in a trap?
00:19:44When the forced evacuation of families with children began, this
00:19:48was, well, still the beginning of twenty-three, like
00:19:52that. We did not leave the territory under
00:19:55Ukraine. We stayed in our
00:19:58house. Why did you make such a decision? Because
00:20:01there was no future in Ukraine for our family as such. My husband went
00:20:05to serve in the Ukrainian Armed Forces...
00:20:37the liberation of the city, waiting for ours, yes,
00:20:41and the other side demanded an explanation from you, why you didn't
00:20:44leave, those who were specifically military personnel of the Ukrainian Armed Forces,
00:20:48they absolutely didn't care who, what, where,
00:20:51where to go, it didn't
00:20:57they came repeatedly, well, let's take a specific example, they
00:21:01arrived, what do you do at that moment? I came out,
00:21:05I came out, said that my husband was not
00:21:08there, of course, they said to write an explanation,
00:21:11an explanation, where is my husband, where is my daughter? Since
00:21:15she is a minor, I said that they left for
00:21:18another address. Who is in the house? Me, well,
00:21:22it turns out that what saved us was that at that time
00:21:26we had cameras on the house, there was video surveillance, the house was
00:21:29completely, and I said that the cameras record
00:21:32with sound, if you want problems, please,
00:21:35let's go. Immediately,
00:21:38there was a policeman who
00:21:42put me in the car, and he whispered to me, "Write an explanation, they won't
00:21:45touch you." And I wrote an explanation, indicating a stranger's
00:21:50address, where no one was there.
00:21:53Then they came repeatedly, but
00:21:57we tracked them on cameras, they're coming to us,
00:22:00accordingly, we didn't go out, right up to the point that it was
00:22:04already winter, we didn't even go outside,
00:22:06that is, for groceries, I went out for
00:22:10groceries through a neighbor.
00:22:12Well, I understand why they were interested in my husband, but why were they
00:22:16interested in Kira? There was a forced evacuation of minors. Kira,
00:22:32tell me about your house. You had your own room,
00:22:35uh-huh, what was in your room,
00:22:38what was there, tell me, drawings probably hung on the wall, posters
00:22:41of some kind, well, there were no
00:22:44posters, but what was there, a whole bunch of
00:22:47them were, which one is your favorite? Toothless
00:22:50toy,
00:22:52Toothless the dragon, did he stay there or is he with you there? We
00:22:56have a photo, let's see. This is your house, yes, this is before, this
00:23:06a big one, inside the house there was an entrance from the inside, well, in my
00:23:09time I expanded it a little, made an exit also from the outside,
00:23:13it turns out that we had three compartments, in
00:23:17one so to speak, where else
00:23:20do you keep your mother-in-law and father-in-law? Here in the basement, in the second
00:23:24compartment were we, well, and the third was such
00:23:27a shed, yes, so this is where we
00:23:30lived, uh-huh, it turns out, where Oksana is sitting, this
00:23:34is just an exit to another type of room, well, behind my
00:23:38back photographing, that is, the composition is like this, there are
00:23:42five of you, yes, with your whole family, mother and father, they came from
00:23:45the center, it turns out, when the Ukrainian Armed Forces
00:23:49settled near them. they, well,
00:23:52there was nowhere to
00:23:58accordingly, only to us, uh-huh, so we lived in
00:24:02Peter. And in your opinion, were there many other people in Volchansk in
00:24:06the same situation at that time? When we were
00:24:09there, there were many people, very many, very many, well, it's
00:24:12hundreds, thousands, many disappeared, you said, yes, we lived,
00:24:16well, roughly speaking, across the meadow from the aggregate plant. And
00:24:20there, well, it was more or less the periphery and quieter.
00:24:23They also told stories about people
00:24:27disappearing. They would go out for provisions and never return. They
00:24:30would come, one day no, second no, third no. They would come
00:24:34home, no home, the house burned down completely, no
00:24:37people. Amir, let's talk about Volchansk, the Kharkov direction,
00:24:41a difficult city in terms of combat operations. How
00:24:45did the situation develop, what is the importance of the city itself, what
00:24:48are the possibilities of its liberation from...
00:24:52Please, at that time I was just in the "North" group of forces,
00:24:54the troops that participated
00:24:58in the liberation of this city. I remember
00:25:01that all the talk was about Volchansk, that it needed
00:25:04to be liberated, it was very important, including
00:25:06the fact that what hindered
00:25:09the advance of our units was that there were many,
00:25:12well, a fairly large number of civilians in the city.
00:25:15We knew that, firstly, the Ukrainian Armed Forces
00:25:19did not care about them, and secondly, there were cases
00:25:22of using civilians as human
00:25:25shields, that is, they placed their positions directly in close
00:25:28proximity to living people, to ordinary
00:25:31civilians, and it was difficult to advance,
00:25:34the task was not to harm civilians, to liberate the city
00:25:38so that civilians would not be harmed, because of this,
00:25:41of course, the pace of advance was not
00:25:44that high, that is, the specificity of combat in
00:25:48urban areas, that is, this is until...
00:26:02was located, well, firstly, the territorial defense forces, uh-huh, well, and
00:26:06secondly, the national battalions, they were directly told, "This is our territory, the people are not
00:26:09ours, that's it, we dig in, we take it, if necessary, we'll cover
00:26:13ourselves with civilians," well, if we talk about neo-Nazism, well, these
00:26:16are real neo-Nazis, they were there, by the way, how far
00:26:20away were the Ukrainians from you? In the next house, here they are,
00:26:24just a clear example, that an attempt to hide, well, on our
00:26:27street, specifically on our street,
00:26:30initially, well...
00:26:53well, she might have done her homework at home, but yes, I just don't like English. What are your favorite subjects?
00:26:55Math,
00:27:00natural science.
00:27:06club as well.
00:27:09How did you, why did you decide to lay out "people"? And we
00:27:13initially, from the very first days, probably, laid out "people",
00:27:16wrote on the gate, also with paint, "people", but this
00:27:20is a photo, yes, this
00:27:23is, well, the plastic that flew off
00:27:25the canopy, yes,
00:27:31places. Peaceful people and so on, peace, that
00:27:35is, there were different inscriptions to
00:27:38indicate that people are still here,
00:27:41that they haven't gone anywhere. Our forces are just
00:27:44coming, the Ukrainian Armed Forces are in the city,
00:27:48Ukrainian birds are also in the air and they see the inscription "people",
00:27:51they understand that this inscription is not addressed to them, it's
00:27:55a risk, this is how we thought, how we
00:27:59understood that this inscription was addressed to everyone, and
00:28:02well, like... if you decide to drop something, keep in mind that there are people here,
00:28:05yes, yes, we hoped for
00:28:15the inscription "people". Those who periodically ran in to us, they
00:28:19had one answer, "There are no civilians here,"
00:28:22uh-huh, "the city is cleared of civilians,"
00:28:25"there are no civilians here," "we don't know
00:28:28anything." Well, when does this story feature that very drone?
00:28:33Well, the first drone appeared on June 1,
00:28:362025, on Children's Protection Day.
00:28:40My husband and my mother were outside, and in
00:28:43the garden, and I remember Tolya shouting such a
00:28:47"Ksyukha!" "Our guys
00:28:50flew to us," he says, "sweets!" We
00:28:53had sweets. We were in the garden, heard the sound
00:28:56of a drone, hid, well, hid
00:29:00under the awning, as usual everything and...
00:30:03Well, it's important to understand here that there were contacts with different
00:30:05units and different UAV groups.
00:30:09Ah, that is, it was not possible to establish a close
00:30:12correspondence with this group, we already corresponded with Pomor, with Tur.
00:30:15We actually have fragments of this very
00:30:19correspondence, let's show them, and you tell us,
00:30:22especially the TV viewers and audience, what
00:30:34You make it clear how many of you there are. So
00:30:37we wanted to pass a note, just wrote who
00:30:40we are, uh, well, that we are civilians, surnames,
00:30:44names, this is already a note being dropped to us, and
00:30:48this is what, as it turns out, uh, they wrote in the note
00:30:52to us that our godparents, our godmother,
00:30:55send their greetings. Connection, connection
00:30:58restored. What's