Photo: Alexander KOTS
We continue to acquaint you with the heroes of the special operation “Z” – participants in the hostilities in the Donbass. Soldiers, sergeants, corporals, and officers who demonstrated their professional experience, character, and completed combat missions. His determination, assertiveness and combat experience in the Ministry of Defense of Russia, in the police units of the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics, receive the highest marks.
Our heroes thwarted the attacks and prevented the counter-offensive of the nationalists, for which they received state awards. But they do not serve for the sake of praise and awards. The military is sure that the enemy has no chance of success, because Donbass and Russia are fighting for a just cause.
“It’s hard to learn – easy to walk! It is easy to learn, it is difficult to participate in a campaign!” wrote Generalissimo Alexander Suvorov. And the Russian commander advised the soldiers: “Die yourself, help a comrade!” The Russian commander also advised Russian soldiers: “Never despise your enemy, whoever he is, and know his weapon well, his way of acting and fighting. Know what is your strength and what is the enemy’s weakness.
PROVIDED RELIABLE ARTISTIC SUPPORT TO THE STORM TROOPS
Guard Sergeant Dmitry Rybakov
“The gunner of the self-propelled artillery battery of the guard airborne assault unit, Sergeant Dmitry Rybakov, carries out combat missions to attack identified firing positions of militants, destroy armored vehicles, artillery and mortar batteries, equipment air defense, command posts and long-range firing points of the Ukrainian nationalists. During the hostilities, armed formations of Ukrainian militants tried to drive our units out of the settlement in a major line. With the support of artillery and mortars, they attacked the positions of the Russian paratroopers with infantry units, as well as with the forces of an armored group of armored personnel carriers and infantry fighting vehicles. Providing artillery support to the defending Russian units, receiving combat missions for the destruction and coordinates of enemy targets, Dmitry Rybakov quickly made calculations for firing, accurately determined the range of the target, chose the aiming point, accurately aimed the gun and fired accurately. Thanks to the well-coordinated and professional work of the self-propelled artillery team, the enemy was seriously defeated. In three days of fighting, four armored fighting vehicles, six vehicles, two mortar sections of 82mm mortars and more than three dozen Ukrainian nationalists were destroyed.”
RUIN A GROUP OF SAIVERERS
Master Sergeant Viktor Bilyk
“Acting as part of the engineering and sapper department, Senior Sergeant Viktor Bilyk cleared a section of the area near one of the Nationalist-controlled settlements. Moving around the area, Viktor discovered a sabotage and reconnaissance group among Ukrainian nationalists operating in this direction.
Quickly orienting himself in the situation, Bilyk made the only correct decision – to suddenly attack the enemy and, having correctly distributed the personnel, entered the battle. The enemy offered desperate resistance, but under pressure from the sappers, the paratroopers began to withdraw. During the battle, senior sergeant Viktor Bilyk, not only did not allow losses among the personnel, but also personally destroyed 5 nationalists. Thanks to his observation, skillful actions and courage from him, an attempt to encircle and destroy the entire sapper unit was prevented, and conditions were created for a subsequent offensive to liberate the settlement.
