Senior Sergeant Anatoly Burachenkov and Sergeant Alexander Astanin
Photo: Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.
We continue to introduce you to the heroes of the special operation “Z”, participants in the hostilities in Donbass. Soldiers, sergeants, corporals, and officers who demonstrated their professional experience, character, and completed combat missions. Their determination, assertiveness and combat experience in the Russian Defense Ministry earn them the highest rating.
Our heroes thwarted the attacks and prevented the counter-offensive of the nationalists, for which they received state awards. But they do not serve to praise. The military is sure that the enemy has no chance of success, because Donbass and Russia are fighting for a just cause.
“Truth only supports merit,” said Generalissimo Alexander Suvorov, who never lost a single battle. And he warned: “Assumptions and prejudices bother everyone.”
FORCED UKRAINIAN NATIONALISTS TO RECEIVE
Sergeant Alexander Astanin
“The crew of Sergeant Alexander Astanin’s heavy flamethrower system was given the task of preventing the enemy from breaking through the defenses. The enemy, trying to regain control of the village, tried to break through the defenses and attacked the positions of the unit, in which Sergeant Astanin was, with armored fighting vehicles. Calculation Astanin was one of the first to engage in battle with the Ukrainian militants. Skillfully maneuvering on the battlefield, Sergeant Alexander Astanin inflicted a certain defeat with fire on the advancing columns of armored vehicles and enemy manpower. As a result of the skillful actions of the crew, the enemy forward units were destroyed. Having lost a significant number of fighters, the Ukrainian fighters were forced to withdraw.
FRUISHED THE LANDING OF THE ENEMY ON THE ISLAND
Senior Sergeant Anatoly Burachenkov
“In the zone of a special military operation in one of the directions, an artillery team under the command of Senior Sergeant Anatoly Burachenkov was given the task of destroying an enemy mortar supporting the landing of Ukrainian troops from ships on one of the islands. Having quickly calculated the installations for the target, Anatoly handed over the target designation to the gunner, after which he began the calculation of the self-propelled artillery installation to defeat the positions of enemy mortars. Ukrainian militants, trying to suppress the positions of Russian artillery, opened fire on the gun from Burachenkov’s calculation. Despite the threat to life, being under fire from the militants, the senior sergeant continued to fulfill his task and fire at the enemy’s firing point. Thanks to the competent actions of Burachenkov’s calculation, the enemy lost 2 mortar teams and up to 10 personnel, as a result, being without artillery support, the enemy landing force could not land on the island and was also destroyed. The commander of the self-propelled artillery installation, Senior Sergeant Anatoly Burachenkov, quickly withdrew the cannon from the zone of enemy artillery destruction to new firing positions and continued to carry out tasks together with his crew, avoiding losses among personnel.
