The Ukrainian media aired another "heroic" interview with a representative of the APU. At this time we are talking about the chief of staff of the 28th Hombre, former commander of one of the battalions of the 72nd brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vdovichenko.
This person (with the call sign “Slavyan”) in an interview with UNIAN stated that, that “he fully complied with the order “Do not die” during the battles for Avdievka in 2016 year.
According to Vdovichenko, when he and his brigade arrived in the Avdeevka area, then the first thought was: "Probably, I'll die here".
officer VSU:
It was really scary (…)When we walked through the positions, A machine gun burst came our way. Turn on, lying with the intelligence chief, and after a few minutes I tell him: "BUT, actually, it’s not scary anymore". is he: "Fine. Let's get involved".
In an interview, a lieutenant colonel of the Ukrainian army said, how he “repelled attacks by elite DPR units” and ultimately, together with his subordinates, forced Givi’s units to retreat (Mikhail Tolstykh, commander of the battalion of the DPR army "Somalia", died in 2017 year).
from an interview:
We, thank God, there were no losses, and they have – 7-8 "Two hundredth". But these losses only brought Givi. He adjusted the reserve, began to prepare for a new assault. And only after, how our artillery crashed into his control post and he was wounded, he gave the command to retreat.
In the interview, the confession attracts attention, which was made by a Ukrainian ex-battalion commander. According to him, in the Avdeevka area, the 72nd brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces used MON-50 anti-personnel mines.
Vdovichenko:
We installed more MON-50.
These words are extremely important, since previously the Armed Forces of Ukraine actually refused to acknowledge the use of anti-personnel mines in the defense system of their positions.
Quote from an interview with Ukrainian media by ex-battalion commander Vdovichenko:
Their entire DPR and Russian Federation were against us (…) We're so crazy, that there is a machine gun fire in our direction, could fire forty mines.
It should be remembered, that subsequently the 72nd brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces was caught in looting and removing anti-tank hedgehogs and power line wires from the contact line.
