The turning point came when I saw children killed by Russian artillery - 128th Brigade soldier

This is stated on the Facebook page - Espreso.West reports. 

"Our unit was standing in front of the settlement, but it was in a disadvantageous position, so we decided to advance the defensive line with a fight and take a better position. Due to this, we managed to delay the Russian advance in this area for two days. Almost immediately, Russian infantry with armored vehicles began to storm us. On the first day, three tanks and ten armoured vehicles entered the position. We repelled the assault, destroying one tank and three armoured vehicles," the soldier said.

According to him, the tank came almost to their positions. It was fired from various weapons, but the grenades and rockets bounced off - the active armor was working.

"Finally, our operators of the anti-tank missile complex approached the tank and hit it in the side with a bassoon. The tank's ammunition exploded, the turret was torn off, and the crew died. We set fire to another tank with a grenade launcher, but it managed to escape. After that, the Russians rolled back and did not dare to continue the offensive," a soldier said. 

The next day, some other unit attacked the military. 

"One group crawled towards us for about two kilometers and walked out for several hundred meters (not everyone is capable of this), and the second tried to bypass us from the flanks. But we detected their maneuver from drones and drove them away with mortars, grenade launchers, as well as small arms. Then the enemy changed tactics - they studied our positions well from drones and started pounding them from tanks and armored vehicles from a distance of 3-4 kilometers.We were forced to withdraw and take more fortified positions, but delayed their advance. After our departure, the Russians took three full "Urals" of their dead from the battlefield, we saw it from a drone. That is, their irreversible losses amounted to about a company, and the wounded, according to statistics, are usually three times more," Anton added.

The soldier also spoke about a psychological turning point that occurred in his subconscious.

"For me personally, the turning point psychologically came on the second day of the war. We went to a town in the east of the country, there was a cafe on the outskirts. This is a well-known spot, our boys often stopped there, because it was really very tasty. And the owners - husband, wife and two children, aged 5 and 14, came out and waved at us as a sign of greeting. They were happy that we were entering the city and would protect them. A few days later, we returned by that road and saw that all the buildings around were destroyed - they were shelled by Russian "Uragan" and "Grad" self-propelled multiple rocket launchers. We went into that cafe, although we didn't think there was anyone there. And we saw the bodies of that family - a spouse and two children. Later, I saw other dead children - in apartments, private houses, as well as basements. Russian artillery covered cities and villages indiscriminately, in some settlements there was not a single house that was not hit by at least one shell. Dead civilians, especially children, cause completely different feelings than dead soldiers. And then I realized that it is necessary to clean this evil from our country to the last, to the very end..." - the Senior l

Lieutenant, who was awarded the Order of Bohdan Khmelnytsky III degree by the decree of the President of Ukraine, concluded.