"I was awarded posthumously": The Armed Forces fighter was hiding in occupation for more than 2 months (video)
He tells that even then he said that their positions are in a disadvantaged place and, in case, they either fall into the environment, or simply "rolled" them, which then happened. "On February 23, they got a team of receiving ammunition. We got ammunition and went to bed. At 4 am, we heard the shooting as artillery works and flies, at that moment I realized that something was wrong. I didn't even have time to give a team as we were broken.
The fighters then had automatic machines, RPGs and small arms, and when they went to a tank column, they realized that they could not do anything. After that, they got into a tactical environment, so they made the decision to break through the Antonovsky Bridge. "We literally crawled on our knees and became entrenched there," the military said. Then they came under cross -fire and from a group of 7 people 6 were injured, including Dmitry.
One of the fighters was 6 bullet wounds, and now he is held captive. Dmitry remembered how his wounded was pulled from a ditch near the Antonivsky Bridge, and that's where his battle ended. Then everything was like in the fog, then he realized that he was assisted, and he was in hospital. He later called his mother because she had already been told that he had died. The military month was in the hospital and underwent 3 operations.
One morning, while in the hospital, he saw Russian invaders who went to the hospital. At that moment, hostile checkpoints were already in the city and were looking for the Ukrainian soldiers. Dmitry had no documents except those in the Action Appendix and he decided to get out of the hospital. He was then helped by a volunteer from Kiev and a local man who hid him for almost 2 months. "At that moment, I did not know where the front line, we win, or we lose.
When we were interrupting the wire and people sat without communication, people went out into the yard, sat and sang Ukrainian songs. From there, there was also visible arrivals in Chernobayivka. I still had information that some of my boys," Subsequently, his brother came to the SBU staff and contacted Dmitry and arranged his evacuation from the occupied Kherson. They pulled the bead to the entrance where he lived. On the way, they changed the car 5 times. The SBU exported 6 people.
They were planted in a boat and they saved the Dnieper. "I had the feeling that we were swimming forever. In Nikolaev we were met by a military boat and took us and sent us to the Odessa port. There I heard" You welcome you to the Security Service of Ukraine. The documents for his award were "posthumously". It was the presidential award, when the video was turned on, I did not pay attention to how he said. But I remembered it when I already came to the controlled territory.
I was brought to the SBU and there was a poster where my photo was written "Awarded Posthumously". When the President was awarded me personally, they were already awarded as alive, " - says Dmitry Chavalakh. The man said that he devoted 12 years of his life to the army, and in civilian life he met with the problem (March 2, 2022) - For the protection of state sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine, loyalty to the military oath.