80th Division paratrooper shares the details of Kharkiv offensive operation

ArmyInform writes about it, "Espreso.West" reports.

"Everything is going according to plan with us - we are advancing as quickly as possible - says a paratrooper from Lviv, commander of the fire support unit with the call sign "Svyatiy".

The soldier does not tell about the current location of his unit, so as not to harm the planned operational measures to liberate the temporarily occupied territories.

"The corridor to Izyum was broken for us by our comrades from the 25th airborne division. Then we moved very quickly, liberated about 70 kilometers in 5-6 days. For almost a week we "ruled" in Russian rear, they didn't even know it. We didn't give a chance to deliver ammunition and reinforcements to Russians at their positions. Then a lot of their equipment was captured, as some joke today: Ukrainians received a "Russian Lend-Lease" - the fighter recalls.

"Svyatiy" also said that at that time many Russians, especially officers of the leadership, shot at their positions in order not to be captured, and a large number also surrendered themselves

A few years ago, "Svyatiy" served in a marine division, defended Ukrainian land in Donetsk region, and then retired. After the start of the full-scale invasion, he immediately began to defend Ukraine from the invaders.

"Here, in principle, there was nothing to think about, and my comrades and I immediately applied to the military commissariats in which we were registered. Since I served in an elite unit, I was immediately sent to our Lviv airborne assault brigade, and almost immediately  we went to Bashtanka in the Mykolayiv region. After completing the combat missions, we redeployed to Pokrovske, defended Lysychansk, Spirne, Soledar. In the latter, according to the radio interception of intelligence, we were opposed by the Kadyrovs. Here, in the Kharkiv region, the poor Russians use just a huge army of tanks and other armored vehicles. They throw everything they have here. And then, as a rule, they make a gesture of goodwill,'' and it becomes ours, Ukrainian" - the soldier adds.