The journalist told how he met APU fighters near the border with Crimea

Butusov remembered the story of the beginning of the war.

Journalist Yuri Butusov told the words of the brigade commander of the APU story about how the Ukrainian military in the period when it was annexed the Crimea, was met by the residents of neighbouring Kherson region.

About this Poroshenko wrote on his page in Facebook.

He noted that this “short but to the point of tears piercing story” told in Cherkasy at the ceremony of awarding the order of “national Hero of Ukraine” commander of the 79th air assault brigade Valery Kurach.

The brigade commander in March 2014, received orders to March on the border with the Crimea and to stop the advance of Russian troops in the Kherson oblast.

He told how on the approach to the border in the village Chaplynka armored personnel carriers of the Ukrainian military stalled in the Central square.

“And now everyone is looking at us. And we just went — no Ukrainian flags, no insignia, faces covered by balaclavas, the armor is also no signs, we only Feb 28, accepted them. Who we are — is unclear. And the people here, a lot of people intensely looking at us”, — quotes Poroshenko military.

He says that in this situation, the brigade commander noticed in the crowd of his colleague and approached him to say Hello.

“And then everyone in the Plaza knew — “Our!”. And all the people in the square knelt, then began to cry, to hug us. Ukrainian army came to the defense, when no one expected. How we thanked and helped.” — told the military.

OUR

At the ceremony of awarding the order of “national Hero of Ukraine” on 10 February in Cherkasy commander of the 79th airborne assault …

Published by Yuri Butusov 12 Feb 2017

© 2017, paradox. All rights reserved.