Posted on 10/26/2022 1:18:14 AM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com
Having passed the summer baptism of fire near Bakhmut, in early September Alexey Pritula, together with his brothers, liberated Izyum and the villages that were on their way to him. A few weeks later, the 25th separate airborne sicheslav Brigade, in which he served, went in the direction of the estuary.
A veterinarian by profession, he was eager to go to the front from the first days of the full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation, but did not get there immediately, so for some time, together with his wife and 7-year-old daughter, he volunteered. They worked in the volunteer kitchen, helped displaced people, and wove nets. And when Alexey still joined the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, his family continued to help the military.
Starting as a shooter in an amphibious assault platoon, after returning to the Donbass, he was temporarily assigned to work in an evacuation Medical Center. Almost every day in combat conditions, he rescued the wounded, but during one of these tasks, a shell flew directly into his legs.
- Alexey, when you were at the front, your wife wrote a post that I want to remind you in part, because it explains Well not only your choice, but also the choice of many people who consciously went to the front. To quote a little in abbreviated form: "I want to dedicate this post to those" friends "and" especially sympathetic "people who write and are interested in ... Yes, my husband Alexey Pritula went to serve in the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine."
No, he wasn't caught or subpoenaed... No, he didn't have a f*PA with work (on the contrary, who is more or less aware, veterinarians have a high season in summer).
He went to protect me, you, you (friends) and not so much but even you (lovers of the Russian World).
He'll give rusni a P*ZDi and come back."
- Alexey, you are currently in the hospital after a very serious injury. But did you manage to do what your wife wrote about?
- I wouldn't say that I fought very hard there. I was in the war for three months. I was trained for about a month, then we were assigned to teams. I got into the 25th separate airborne sicheslav brigade. It was August 5. A day later, we were sent to our positions. In this sector of the front, the situation was difficult, there were losses, a lot of wounded, so I almost immediately found myself in the trenches, where I spent the next 8 days. The worst part was that I didn't have time to call my wife and warn her that I might be out of touch.
- What tasks did you perform?
- Our task was to observe the approach of the enemy. We were about a kilometer and a half away from the orcs. And they were under heavy fire all the time. They fired everything they had. Artillery, equipment, and aviation.
We had the opportunity to shoot back a little, but most often it was only after they hit us, and if we managed to find out where exactly, we responded.
That's how my baptism of fire took place.
"Where exactly was it?"
- Near Bakhmut. The guys we took over spent about three weeks there. I was lucky, we were there for a little over a week before we were taken out of there and even allowed to go home for a while. Of course, it wasn't for long. But I managed to see my family. Then returned back to the Donetsk region.
- And already in September you released raisins. I read about it on your Facebook page.
- Yes, we were relocated to the Kharkiv region, and in early September we went to Izyum as attack aircraft. They stormed and liberated villages. Settlements and landings were cleared. By the way, I managed to take one prisoner there.
"Who was this prisoner?"
- A guy from Luhansk region. An ordinary guy that was mobilized in the so-called LPR.
- Did you talk to him? Did he say anything?
"I didn't have much time for that. All I realized was that about a week before he met me, he was handed a summons on the street and sent to the front. He was very happy to give up.
- You handed it over, as I understand it, further to the relevant department.
- Of course. We disarmed him and handed him over.
- Did you run into him in battle, or was he hiding somewhere and found him?
- We cleared the plot with residential buildings. There were several detached buildings. Cleared, took up positions.
Then I see someone walking in the field. Clearly not in our uniform and with a machine gun. I thought about shooting or taking it away. I decided that it would be more interesting to take a prisoner.
"What happened next?"
"Our company was moving rapidly in the direction of raisins. Compared to the estuary, it was a walk. The Russians ran away, abandoned everything, we saw a lot of abandoned equipment, because either the fuel ran out, or the battery ran out.
We then affected a lot of equipment. And at some point they entered the raisins.
- The villages that you liberated on the way to Izyum were very destroyed?
"I can only speak for myself. There were several teams there, they went in different directions. Where I was, there was almost no destruction. There are generally very small villages there.
The locals did not tell about any atrocities like what happened in other occupied territories. They said that they robbed, took away equipment, but did not torture people, as it was in Izyum itself.
I saw houses with broken locks, something was probably taken out. But these are villages where many people managed to leave, so it is not entirely clear what happened.
– What did you see in Izyum itself when you entered?
- Many of their fortifications, caponiers are such pits for large equipment, trenches right at the entrance.
There were a lot of BC warehouses in Izyum. We have damaged a lot of equipment and ammunition.
- How long have you been in town?
- For some time, our platoon was standing at roadblocks. Then we were replaced by the National Guard, and we went to the estuary, and I changed my tasks. I am a veterinarian by profession, so I was temporarily transferred to the evacuation Medical Center as a paramedic. I had to take out the wounded and dead from positions as close to the fighting as possible.
- And before that, who were you in the military specialty?
"An ordinary soldier, a gunslinger.
- What did you do when you became a paramedic? Can you describe your day roughly?
– We get an evacuation point, go there by car, pick up the wounded or dead. Our task is to pick them up as quickly as possible and take them to the next nearest evacuation point, from where they are taken even further – to a field hospital. This was our main job.
And there the problems started almost immediately. Because the enemy artillery, their tanks worked very, very intensively. We had losses, and we had to leave almost every day from the moment our troops launched an offensive on the estuary. He walked very hard compared to raisins. If we covered tens of kilometers a day there, then here we covered a kilometer or two a day. But they were leaving.
There were minor injuries, but there were also serious ones – separation of limbs.
There were also terrible things. It happened that we collected people in parts and couldn't even find everything. For example, the head was not found…
– Why do you think it was harder in the Donbas than in the Kharkiv region?
- I think that in the Kharkiv region they understood that they did not have the resources there. And we decided to make a more or less normal line of defense in the estuary. Because there were more favorable conditions for them. Including placement.
And here we saw destroyed villages with houses smashed to smithereens. They did a lot of trouble there.
"Do the locals still live there?"
- Yes, a little, but they live.
- How do they survive in such conditions?
- I didn't ask. I think we just adapted to the conditions that exist.
"There was no light or water?"
– There was absolutely nothing, light, water, communication-everything was completely absent.
- Alexey, how were you injured?
- It happened on September 30. The day started hard. We were given an evacuation point, we arrived there, and there was a guy with several mine-explosive lesions and a poorly superimposed tourniquet.
I tried to help him, but it was a very bad road, and we have a lousy suspension in the car. Because of this, it was very difficult to do anything. So I asked our driver to stop and give me at least some time so that I could put on the tourniquet as needed. The driver got out of the car, and I was inside – in the booth. I quickly put a tourniquet on the wounded man, and then we were covered with "hail". It cut down everything around us, including our car. One fragment flew directly into the windshield. If the driver had been there, he would have stayed there.
- Did he survive?
"Yes, because that was the moment I was outside. We were lucky with the "three hundredth", we were not hooked. And we took him out under fire. It was around 12 o'clock in the afternoon.
I even had a video of what the car was like after that.
"But that wasn't the end of the day. Was there another check-out?
- Arriving and overloading the guy, we get another point. We go there, pick up another "three hundredth". We also take out the guy, and then we get another point – and there are "three hundredths".
Let's go. The road is terrible. And one of the debris we received this morning must have moved up the ramp – and the front wheel burst just as we arrived at the scene.
We let them know because we decided we couldn't get back anyway. They left the car under the trees and hid in a small clearing on the other side of the road. There was such a wide tree trunk, and we sat behind it. We waited an hour – no one was brought to us.
We go out to our superiors – they say to wait. And while we were waiting, at some point a shell flew into my legs. The upper part of the body was completely closed, but the legs... Well, how can I tell you... became all bad…
When I saw it, it seemed to me that everything there was generally caught on the hip, and I lost consciousness. Maybe for a second, maybe more. And my friend, seeing this, decided that I was "two hundredth", and hid even further. Because they just kept polishing us there.
I had two tourniquets , so when I came to my senses, I put them on my thighs as quickly as possible. At the same time, I heard that our guys were sitting nearby in yarochka – I don't know which unit, so I tried to shout to them as calmly as possible. I said, "Guys, who can hear me? I'm heavy, "three hundred". Please, if you can, come to me."
At some point, a guy heard me and said, "Little Brother, I'm coming to you." I came up and looked. I ask: "Is there any way to help with the evacuation?". He says, " Yes, we'll do it now."
They find infantry fighting vehicles – either they were hidden somewhere, or they were stopped on the road because there was traffic of our equipment. I am thrown on a soft stretcher on the hood of an infantry fighting vehicle and transported to the first evacuation point. To where we were left off. Our car was cut, and our driver, fortunately, survived. And after several evacuation cycles, I ended up in a field hospital. There I had a primary surgical treatment. They cut off everything that was hanging there for me. Anesthetized badly. And I lay there until the evening.
I want to draw your attention to the fact that I had very high-quality tourniquets. Because bad tourniquets are a very big problem in the army. There are a lot of them there. Volunteers want the best, but, unfortunately, if they are not of very high quality, this leads to large losses. They are torn, do not fasten. And life depends on it.
- Are high-quality products more expensive?
- Yeah. These are, for example, American SAT tourniquet. A normal tourniquet costs about a thousand hryvnias. This is a very, very important thing for the military.
If we talk about further events, then at night I was taken to the Kharkiv military hospital, where they performed another operation – they cleaned up my wounds. I spent several days there, and then I was transferred to a military hospital in Kiev, where several more operations were performed.
At first, it seemed that I would be able to save two knees, but, unfortunately, the left one will have to be removed. Because there is not enough space for normal fixation of the prosthesis in the future, and a strong infection. Nothing, we will select the prosthesis for this format.
- Did you have time to meet the guy who pulled you out then wounded? Wasn't it before that?
- No, I didn't. I'd really like to know who it was, but I don't even know how to do it.
- What kind of locality was it? Can we talk about it now?
- I'm having a hard time getting my bearings right now. It was about 10 kilometers from the estuary. I don't remember the name of the locality, honestly. I was a little confused by all this.
"Maybe this guy will read the interview and get in touch. And you will have a chance to thank him. Because he actually saved your life.
- I'll say this. Most likely, I saved my own life, because if I couldn't put on a tourniquet, I wouldn't have survived. These are important skills that every person who goes to serve should master.
But you're right. If I had been there for an hour, two, or three, it wouldn't have made any difference.
"And that fellow of yours who thought you were dead has moved so far that he didn't hear you?"
"Right up to the car, because he tried to start it to get out and take me out. He heard me, knew I was awake, but he had to drive something. But, unfortunately, our car was completely beaten and worthless. And he just couldn't get me out.
"Did he get out of there?"
- Yes, fortunately, I got out. We wrote it off later.
- Alexey, you are a veterinarian by profession. Hence do you have all these medical skills that were needed in the war, or did you learn something else after the mobilization?
- In fact, this is the norm for every serviceman. This is something that was necessarily taught to me, for example. And I am sure that everyone is taught this. Because during my service, I was trained several times on the application of tourniquets.– you must be able to do this. With the advent of tourniquets, the death rate on the battlefield among our soldiers has simply decreased significantly. I mean, since 2014. The more of them you have, the better. Ideally, it's 4-5.
- What are the doctors telling you now? What are the forecasts? What should I do next?
"Oh, they don't say anything. The main prognosis is healing. Because before healing, there can be no talk about prosthetics.
"How long will it last?"
- Doctors believe that it will take 2-3 months for the healing and formation of the stump, after which we will select the options for the prosthesis.
- Will prosthetics be available in Ukraine or somewhere abroad?
- We don't know While we're looking. We select options. The state guarantees me, for example, prosthetics abroad
– in Germany. But we are also considering other options in parallel. These are the United States, Ukraine and other countries.
- I saw in social networks that your friends and colleagues from the veterinary community raised funds for treatment, rehabilitation and prosthetics. Have you collected the necessary amount for prosthetics, or do you still not know exactly how much you will need in general?
– We don't know any amounts yet, because we are talking not only about prosthetics and prosthetics, but also about rehabilitation, which takes a very long time. You'll have to learn to walk. Therefore, we continue collecting.
- You have a little daughter, whom, as can be seen from your publications in social networks, you love very much. And she's you. As they say, Dad's daughter. How did she take it all?
"Can I put my wife on the phone?" She'll tell you more precisely.
- Is she around? Come on.
Julia:
-I told my daughter. I found out on the 30th in the evening. I didn't want to say anything at night, and I wasn't in a position to say it right away. But she saw me walking around the apartment, asking if something had happened. I say: let's talk to you tomorrow. Because I had to gather a little, find some words.
When we got up in the morning, I sat her down on the couch and said, "We need to talk to you seriously." She knew it would be about dad. But I thought that this, on the contrary, was some kind of happy news. That I'm going to tell her that dad's coming or something. Because she was really looking forward to it.
When I said that dad called yesterday, that he was injured, she said: "he called himself?". I Say, " Yes." That is, I tried as much as possible to concentrate on the positive, to emphasize that he is alive. And then I told her that, unfortunately, it just so happened that dad wouldn't have both legs. She burst into tears.
She even, I do not know what to call it краще she was allegedly indignant at first, and then angry. She was angry at me for letting him go there, at my dad for going there instead of staying home. Then she started shouting at Putin and Russia why they attacked. But after all, she apologized for having so many emotions in our direction. "The pope defended all of us: my classmates, me, you, and other people."
She recognized and admitted that she was wrong, and directed her anger only at the neighboring country. After that, she started asking me: "Mom, maybe they will grow back?"–"No, bunny, they won't grow back," I explained. In the evening, I immediately asked Lyosha how to tell Malaya. Or just say that dad is in the hospital, and keep silent about the injury. But we decided to say it anyway.
We are always more inclined to believe that even though she is small – she is seven years old – but we say almost everything as much as possible in light mode. That is, we immediately explained to her that the war had started, without inventing anything.
- Did you manage to calm her down a little after the news about dad?
- We started Googling it. I showed her what prosthetics look like, what they can be. We searched YouTube for videos of people walking without one or two legs on prosthetics. I showed her that there was no need to be afraid of this, because Lyosha was very worried that she would be afraid of him.
She also explained that treatment, rehabilitation and prosthetics take more than one month, because children misunderstand the question of time. That dad might have to move around in a wheelchair first. She was crying again. And then we decided that we would have our own Iron Man – Iron Man.
After a while, she asked to be alone in her room. And when she came out, she said: "if the children in the yard call me names, I will fight." She went back to her room.
That's how we had a conversation.
- There are military personnel who fight with prosthetics. I will definitely look for links to their interviews and send them to you – show them to your daughter. Is she with you now, too, in the hospital at dad's?
- No, she stayed with her godmother in Odessa. And I've been with him since the first days after the injury. Now he needs to recover as much as possible. Because, unfortunately, so far we are not talking about prosthetics at all. We are talking about improving his condition, because due to infection, temperature, etc.every day there is some new, not very good information.
- Alexey did not immediately go to the front, at first he volunteered. Did you also work together in the volunteer kitchen?
- He went to the military enlistment office from the first day, he was not accepted, because he is not an athlete, did not serve, that is, he had absolutely no experience.
In general, at first he persistently offered to take Malaya and me somewhere, within Ukraine, not abroad, but to a place where it is relatively safe. I refused to go without him, and we had no such questions.
Alexey continued to work, although not in the same mode as always. And in our spare time, the three of us went to weave nets, then donated blood together, helped at the railway station when refugees started arriving there, and fed them.
Then we went to work in a volunteer kitchen. They couldn't stay at home at all. Lyosha went to the military enlistment office all this time and asked to be taken.
"You didn't say no at all?" - Of course, I would like there to be no war, and we lived as before February 24, and I was worried that he was so eager to go to the front. But then I took it calmly when he woke up one morning and said that he was going to the military enlistment office again.
Probably, if I didn't have a child and I wasn't so worried about my parents, I would have left too. I think he did the right thing. Even now, in this state, he says that if it was possible to rewind everything, he would have done the same.
He did what any person who loves his family and country should do. I respect his choice.
When he was already at the front, and the volunteer kitchen was closed, I raised funds to help the military. I collected a drone for their unit in a day. And when they were near the estuary, about a week before his injury, it happened that the guys were left without communication, because the car, where there was a lot of equipment, came under enemy fire. I assembled 18 walkie-talkies in ten hours. In other words, we also did the best we could in the rear.
– In social networks, I read a lot of posts about Alexey. About how he treated animals, helped those who were brought to him by volunteers. This is a lot of warm, sincere feedback and words of support.
- Many of his clients also wrote to me. Although at one time, like any wife, I was annoyed when I could wake up at two in the morning from the words: "how the dog pooped, how much and where it peed", because they called him at any time, and he, although sometimes angry, always picked up the phone. Because he is such a person, he worked 24/7.
- All these people are here now, so do not think about what could have been, but rather about what will happen next. Because life goes on.
Alexey: – A lot of people write to me. These are my childhood friends, these are my clients, people who not only know me, but at least have heard about me. I feel incredible support. The veterinary community helps a lot. Both with money and with the search for prosthetics options. I am sincerely grateful to everyone. "I wish it would heal as quickly as possible.
- I am sure of this and am very positive.
- Because we will definitely win and I am sure you will do a lot more to restore the country.
Ukraine has set up a website and telegram channel called 200rf.com - in reference to Cargo 200 - so Russian families can track down and identify their sons.
Zelenski, WEF, prowar spokeswoman sez: blah, blah, blah, interminable blah, blah, blah ...
I’ll bet he wishes he hadn’t listen to You.
blah, blah, blah ...
“Sticks & stones”
Censor.NET is in Ukrainian. Did you translate the article then?
“Ukraine has set up a website and telegram channel called 200rf.com - in reference to Cargo 200 - so Russian families can track down and identify their sons.”
All PR cause Ukraine won’t do it for its own people, just ask the Committee of Soldiers’ Mothers of Ukraine who have been shutdown and blocked by the Ukrainian SBU, you know, for ‘security purposes’ cause we certainly don’t want the real Ukrainian numbers getting out, do we?
Yeah, you and WEF, you go gurl!
Is Travis McGee sharing his red pencil Comrade?
Another post from my favorite Ukrainian Telegram Channel. It appears the dramatic missile/drone strikes on infrastructure is having a deleterious affect on logistics.
⚡️#Inside
It is reported that the Office of the Ukrainian President has confirmed that after the attacks on the infrastructure facilities, deep problems with logistics were revealed.
The delivery of ammunition and new weapons, on which Ukraine is critically dependent, is significantly slowing down.
Military men and logistics groups are forced to use (civilian)trucks to transport military equipment and ammunition.
-Rezident
https://t.me/legitimniy/13911
Telegram
legitimate
Arrival in Dnipro.
The fire started.
The video filmed shows that the fire and explosions started in a warehouse where tilt trucks are parked.
Usually, many of them carry “military toys”.
We will wait for the official version from the Office of the President.
AFU artillery in Bakhmut “choked” by NATO error! Here is what happened!
Earlier, Military Chronicle wrote about the shelling chaos in the Ukrainian army. Now new evidence has emerged.
By early October, due to logistics problems, the AFU artillery near Bogdanivka (12 km west of Bakhmut) began to receive different types of 155 mm ammunition.
This mistake deprived the AFU of the opportunity to conduct barrage fire and counter-battery warfare against advancing Wagner PMC and DNR NM units, allowing allied forces to advance close to AFU positions.
The standard NATO calibres of shells supplied vary in size, type of explosive used, weight and a number of other parameters. A supply error resulted in the delivery of ammunition with unsuitable powder charges for the Polish AHS Krab SAU.
This ammunition was captured in a report by a Sky News TV crew near Bakhmut. The video showed Ukrainian artillerymen firing M795 shells originally developed for the M777 light towed howitzer family.
Intense firing with this ammunition from 1-20 October led to the failure of the barrel locking mechanism of four of the 12 AHS Krab battery guns deployed to reinforce the 54th AFU brigade near Bakhmut.
In addition, according to the Military Chronicle, the situation with the Polish Self-propelled guns,SAUs,in the Bakhmut direction is aggravated not only by the high intensity of combat operations, but also by insufficient training of self-propelled gun crews(SAU crews)and repair crews ,AFU units are unable to maintain and repair the 155-mm guns in the field conditions. Due to the low skills of AFU engineering units, AHS Krab with jammed guns have to be sent abroad for repairs.
-milchronicles
"Our company was moving rapidly in the direction of raisins. Compared to the estuary, it was a walk. The Russians ran away, abandoned everything, we saw a lot of abandoned equipment, because either the fuel ran out, or the battery ran out. […]
We then affected a lot of equipment. And at some point they entered the raisins. […]
He walked very hard compared to raisins.
Mechanical translating error; probably should be "Izyum."
Regards,
Putin is WEF.
After all Zelenskyy’s Green Curtain productions, how do you separate the propaganda from reality?
Both sides lie. Its part of fighting wars
Ummm, he’s not following the script.
That is why he must be destroyed.
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