Did my best translating word for word. -The first time we arrived in Kiev after what happened on Dec1st. At that moment there was...
Did my best translating word for word. -The first time we arrived in Kiev after what happened on Dec1st. At that moment there was a truths. We arrived on street Bankovo. Everything was calm, and we put on Ribbons of Saint George which didn't sit well with the local officials/deputies. There some words exchanged but in general the first month of service went OK. After we were allowed to take a break. We returned home for about 3 nights. We received an alarm in the middle of the 3rd night about disturbances on street Grushevskogo. After our arrival, events started taking place where the opposition government and The Right Sector started build barricades . During the day we had a lot of journalists around which showed everyone how everything was peaceful and calm. As night came, the offensive actions started taking place. There was a lot of pyrotechnics and fire. Internal Forces (ВВ Soldat) took a lot of casualties because they were the closest to the action. We were given an order to carry out an advance on. As we were pushing the people back we got an order to retreat and we were unable to push the people back to Maidan. That same day we saw the people working together bringing in sand bags and gasoline. We asked our superiors why they were allowing the trucks through that brought the gasoline in which was used to make Molotovs right in front of our eyes, but our inquiries fell on deaf ears. As night fell, the attacks started all over again but they intensified every time. After about 2 attacks, their barricaded grew to be 2 stories high and their financing kept increasing. There was another truths that lasted about 3 weeks. While we were on watch one night, our scout team told us that there is going to be a big push to take over the parliament block. When morning came, everything that our scout team told us happened. The people approached the Parliament building under the peaceful protestor act after which they started throwing Molotovs and flash bang granades. We were given an order to move to a street where the office of the regional party was located. By the time we got there, the fire crew was on scene putting out the fire. Unfortunately 2 officers were lost. They were beaten unconscious and left in the fire and smoke. After this happened we were given an order to make another advance. There was a lot of things happening, lots of casualties. All the officers were ordered to move closer to Maidan and carry our another advance at night. (the burning APC) As we made the advance we got the order once again to back down and return to hold the line away from Maidan, instead of charging in and dispersing the crowd once and for all. With everyday there was more and more firearms wounds. 2 of my colleagues that were covering me received gun shot wounds. Due to a breakdown in the communication The Internal Forces which were on the front line were left behind. We had the task to go in and cover them which was met with high resistance where we had more officers killed due to gun shots. On the same day we had to move to a different location and cover water canon trucks, fire trucks and ambulances which couldn’t get out due to a huge congestion of people. We were forced to stay there until it all cleared up. By this time we were completely depleted of rubber bullets and left to choice but to engage in hand to hand combat. When we returned from our shift, Alpha Group has just moved out to cover the snipers. Also I want to add for the people that say only the police were using firearms, that is completely not true. My group had a 40 minute shift where we had to stand and not move while were being shot at with hunting rifles and rifles of 7.62 caliber. Just like the other side we had bullet holes in our shields, yet no one would budge, we stood together. When we returned from our shift on the front line we asked to be given weapons. At first they were scared to give them to us because we just got back from being shot at and they thought we would take over the parliament ourselves. Eventually we got the firearms. In the morning we were ordered to leave Kiev and to return the firearms. We refused because to get through on the roads without firearms was too risky. Thanks to the people in parliament at the time we were given a corridor to leave the city. They only had one request from us and that was to not open fire on anyone, “enough blood”. They knew we were very tense and serious about leaving Kiev after the fighting. We had to drive in, indirect routes to avoid conflicts but still had to cover for our colleagues in different busses that met resistance. We made it to Sevastopol safely. A big thank you to Sevastopol, we were not expecting such support. We decided to go to our base to figure out what to do next, because our government abandoned us. After arriving in Sevastopol we realised everything will be ok, because this city stood behind us like a mountain. They provided a great amount of humanitarian aid and other amenities. Most of the stuff we received we sent to our colleagues in Internal Forces (BB) because they were the ones constantly on the front lines and took the most casualties. I want to give another big thanks to the citizens of Sevastopol. And we promise we will do everything in our power to remove the evil from Ukraine. Less
