He drank water from a puddle and operated on himself: the history of the Armed Forces fighter, who had been in the enemy rear of 46 days
On October 30, 2023, a group of Ukrainian defenders came to the leading positions of the Armed Forces near the Kingevka. In a few days they were to be replaced, but the change never came, and the positions attacked the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. In a few days, on November 4, one of the soldiers died, two more went for the water and did not return, and from the whole group after enemy storms managed to survive only one fighter.
Vladimir Gudim, with the call sign Tikhon was left there without connection, without food and water. Vladimir - 54. He is from Kherson. Prior to the Great War, he worked in a paramilitary protection on the railway, survived the occupation, and when his hometown was devoted, he enrolled with his comrades in the Armed Forces. The man got to the front in the middle of the summer of 2023, then was thrown under Bakhmut, where he was first injured.
After treatment in September, Vladimir returned to the position. Tikhon was the commander of the department - the commander of the fighting machine 22 OMBR. On October 30, he, along with nine brothers, came to front combat positions a few kilometers from the tick. On the way, one of the groups covered the enemy drone. In the morning, the wounded was replaced, and the full rotation of the whole group was to take place in 4-5 days. There were three fighters with Vladimir, and five more - five more.
According to him, the "neighbors" tried to break through the enemy DRG, but they were able to repel the attack, although they had one killed and wounded. The next day, another DRG had already tried to go to the Gudim and his group. They also reflected, but had one dead. On December 4, when the stocks were over, two guys from Tikhon went on the water, but never returned. Their fate is unknown. Gudim was also considered missing. On December 8, the Russians went on the offensive.
"Until the 7th, I still saw the guys in a neighboring position, and when I had climbed, everything was already. Apparently, they were covered at night or by mines, or something else," the military says. He added that his position by the invaders for some reason went around the side, and from the drones he was hiding. One day, two Russians jumped into the Okop. They did not notice that there was still someone there and the maramoeli went. Vladimir threw a grenade in them.
Taking the radio station of the invaders, he realized that the Russians went through his position because they believed that everything was replaced there. "These" single ", which were jumped into the neighboring trench during the shelling. And they climbed, "Vladimir recalls. In one of the raised in his trench the invaders, Vladimir found a notepad. The written pages he snatched, and began to keep his diary so that his relatives knew that something could happen to him.
There were virtually no food in a man, water - too. "If the rain passed is a holiday. Empty bottles of puddles. And what to do? Water is water. Sometimes I had to drink their faults. Then it got cold, it was snowing. It was melting in the day ", - the man recalls. In search of food, he searched the killed and defeated enemy trenches. One of them dug 6 cans of stew. Then he began to try to get out of the environment. "I got lost. I went out in an unfamiliar territory. I did not find the tick.
Apparently, I went a little to the side and went to the enemy rear. It was already glowing. I reached the forest strip and found a dugout - in it and hid. There was no one there, though there was no thing both ours and Russian lay. Maybe the position went from hand to hand, "he says. A week later, two Russians made their way to the trench, he threw a grenade in their side.
Then there was an explosion, perhaps dropping from the drone, which is why he was injured in the hand, and the fragments cut his leg. "I looked: the finger was hanging . . . It was still not saved, immediately amputated. I cut with scissors that were in the first aid kit. He treated his hand with alcohol napkins and stabbed himself. The man also tells that over time he has very swollen legs due to frost and hypothermia. Already in the hospital he was amputated through this.
After the injury, Hoodim stayed in this position in fact a month. The last week he had no food. Then the man decided to wade at his own risk of a replaced field, but due to the deterioration of the weather, he postponed his exit every time. In a few days he got out in search of food, he was noticed. "I hear a cry:" Get up, come here! I am for sure, ”Vladimir Gudim recalls.
Through Russian, he thought that the Russians came across him and jumped into the trench, but later heard: "Get out, we are our own. Only hands forward. " As the military then told Vladimir, they did not shoot on it, because they saw a trident on the sight. It turned out to be fighters from his brigade. Vladimir Gudim was found on December 22. He made his mother's first call and reported. that is alive. The man confesses that the axis did not lose the hope that he would return to his own.
"I had confidence that I would live. Do you know wise words? If you are not sure of yourself, you have lost 50%, "says the serviceman. During this time he lost 15 pounds. Heroism in his history is not seen by Vladimir, although he was awarded the medal" for bravery in battle. " mine, or, I would say better, merit - that I did not leave my position immediately. Did not escape. Unless that. And so. Thousands of guys are also fighting, protecting. I do not feel any exclusiveness of the situation.