KATERYNA TYSHCHENKO – FRIDAY, 10 JUNE 2022, 16:23
In the beginning of the full-scale warfare, preventing in Kharkiv came about “actually on each road”, and concerned each the navy and civilians.
Supply: Pavlo Fedosenko, Hero of Ukraine, commander of the the 92nd Separate Mechanised Brigade named after Ivan Sirko Pavel Fedosenko, as reported by the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valerii Zaluzhnyi on Fb
Particulars: The 92nd Brigade, together with different models, defended Kharkiv and is now participating within the counteroffensive, pushing the Russian occupying forces to the border of Kharkiv Oblast.
Within the first three days after the full-scale invasion, the brigade fought on the entrance from the executive border of Kharkiv and Sumy oblasts to the executive border of Kharkiv and Luhansk oblasts. After that, the order was given to defend the perimeter of Kharkiv, and the fighters took up the defence alongside the ring highway.
Fedosenko: “At the moment, there have been road fights within the metropolis. Everybody was preventing for Kharkiv: each the navy and civilians. Units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the Nationwide Guard, the police and people who had merely volunteered. The enemy was being crushed actually on each road.
It was extraordinarily essential to grab the initiative within the first 10 days, and that’s what we did. We knocked the Russians out of the town, entrenched ourselves, and that is it – they misplaced the second of shock and realised that they might now not make their manner into the town.”
Extra particulars: Fedosenko is bound that it was at that second that everybody felt for the primary time that the Russian military was not as scary because it appeared.
“The Russians are a military of barbarians and looters. Once we knocked the Russians out of Tsyrkuny, for instance, they left their wounded, their personnel, however loaded washing machines on their gear, and many others. and fled with this looted junk to Russia,” the Commanding officer of the brigade remembers.
Based on him, the Russian military is preventing with the utmost variety of tanks and artillery, exceeding the Ukrainian capabilities by dozens of occasions. He careworn that Ukraine wants extra weapons for efficient defence and offensive operations.
