Photo: Vladimir VELENGURIN
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. The military is sure that the enemy has no chance of success, because Donbass and Russia are fighting for a just cause.
“Don’t be afraid of death, then you will probably win. Two deaths cannot happen, but one cannot be avoided, ”said Generalissimo Alexander Suvorov, who did not lose a single battle. He also repeated: “They spare no money to receive news (for intelligence).”
COMMUNICATION PROVIDED UNDER TANK FIRE
Ensign Artur Karpushenko
“In the course of a special military operation, Ensign Artur Karpushenko, the head of the communications platoon, carried out the tasks of organizing stable uninterrupted communications and ensuring the exchange of information between higher headquarters, command posts and subunits. of Russian troops in areas of intense hostilities. In the course of the march to the place of the combat mission to contain the enemy in the area of u200bu200bbridge crossings, Karpushenko and his crew were in the control car and provided communication in the convoy and with the units of interaction. Thanks to the competent actions of Karpushenko and his subordinates, information was exchanged with the troops operating at the front, communication with aviation was maintained, the receipt of warning signals and their immediate communication to subordinate units and subunits was organized, the command had the operation. situation in real time, and unit commanders quickly transmitted information about the change in the situation to higher headquarters. In one of the sections of the movement, a convoy of vehicles was attacked by enemy tanks, as a result of which the control room was damaged by shrapnel. Instantly assessing the situation, Arthur, together with the crew entrusted to him, risking their lives under enemy fire, quickly restored the functionality of the product, thereby preventing the loss of control of the units in the course of repelling the attack from Ukrainian nationalists. Arriving at the designated area, Karpushenko’s crew equipped the position, deployed equipment and ensured stable communications between the units occupying the strategically important facility. Being under heavy artillery fire, Warrant Officer Artur Karpushenko correctly installed the equipment and organized communication between the command and the higher headquarters and command posts, ensuring stable command and control of the units and the adjustment of artillery and Russian aviation.
COVERED FIRE STORM PLANTS PROMOTION
Senior Sergeant Nikita Kuksa
“The calculation of a self-propelled artillery gun under the command of Senior Sergeant Nikita Kuksa, during an offensive in one of the tactical directions, carried out a combat mission to destroy tanks and armored vehicles of Ukrainian militants and supported Russian units They operate on the front line with artillery fire. The enemy, in an attempt to stop the advance of the Russian troops, put up fierce resistance, while actively using cannon and rocket artillery, as well as UAV strikes.
Despite the impact of enemy fire, Kuksa timely detected the armored vehicles of the militants advancing in the direction of the Russian positions, determined as soon as possible the targets of the fire missions, the general order of attack of the enemy, taking into account the possible variant of their actions, they accurately decided the order of firing and hitting targets, and also suppressed enemy firing points, receiving target designations from observation posts. During the advance of the Russian troops on a given line, with directed and effective artillery fire, with a minimum consumption of ammunition, Senior Sergeant Nikita Kuksa and his crew completed more than thirty firing missions, as a result of which the position of the Ukrainian nationalists’ Grad multiple launch rocket system battery was suppressed, one armored vehicle and one foreign-made howitzer, as well as three mortar crews, were destroyed.
