"So we stayed three - I," Ray "and" ZhEK ": Chaplain and 2 Fighters of the Armed Forces held a position
Facts write about it. For these fights, Mykola Yaroshenko, who was older in the group, received the Order of Courage of the 3rd degree. He was personally presented with President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy when he recently came to Kupyansk. According to Mykola Yaroshenko, who has a call sign "Kapellan" for more than 10 years, he, along with two brothers "Raem" and "ZhEKA" in Kupyansk, kept the positions of the Armed Forces during the week.
They stood against the occupiers, which were several times higher than in number. According to him, at first there was five in the positions of the soldiers, but on the first day one of them was injured - he was broken by the shin. The wounded could not evacuate the day because of dense shelling. "The enemy fired from everything only. It is a safer place where the doctors soon came, " - said Nicholas. The next day, another fighter was injured in the back, he was also evacuated.
Both fighters survived. "So we remained three. I," ray "and" ZhEK ". Guys are ordinary workers. One 88 years of birth, the second 1979. For both it was the first such a serious battle. They just sent them to our unit after four months in The school. He noted that the brothers obeyed all his orders and "behaved like real heroes", so they lasted for so long. Mykola Yaroshenko says that their position was located in a good place and was well fortified, and everyone had their own individual trench.
"We saw them, they did not. The occupiers had a task in all ways to squeeze us out of landing, which they did almost around the clock. Even it is difficult to imagine how many tons of iron were dropped on our heads. At the bottom where the Russians tried to fix themselves Trees. But they themselves burned with an incendiary mixture. He says they slept only an hour a day, and they were brought to them in a certain place. The soldiers lived in the position without releasing the machine guns.
"At the end of the week, the Russians were so much watered with fire that our heads could not They were slightly subsided to think that they finally coped with their task and were able to open up, "the chaplain said. He noted that the Russians, thinking that the fighters had already died, behaved freely, approaching the position openly and talking to each other. "It was difficult to figure out what they were talking about.
When they approached us for twenty meters - I got up to the enemies of all the clamps. Mykola Yaroshenko tells. In this extreme battle, Mykola Yaroshenko was injured. His leg and hand cut the fragments of a cassette mine. He was evacuated, and he returned to the system after passing treatment. The other day, Mykola Yaroshenko with the call sign "Kapellan" received the award from the hands of the president.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy came to Kupyansk on the day of the sergeant, where he personally presented Nicholas Order "For Courage" of the 3rd degree. It should be reminded that on November 20 it was reported that in Donetsk the Ukrainian paratroopers were able to capture one of the important positions in the Kurakhiv direction. They eliminated the commanders and captured the surviving Russians.