{"id":3436,"date":"2015-03-10T21:55:39","date_gmt":"2015-03-10T21:55:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/?p=3436"},"modified":"2015-12-24T14:30:07","modified_gmt":"2015-12-24T14:30:07","slug":"ato-in-faces-igor-an-officer-of-the-national-guard-stationed-in-krymske","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/ato-in-faces-igor-an-officer-of-the-national-guard-stationed-in-krymske\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00a0\u201cATO in faces\u201d: Igor an Officer of the National Guard stationed in Krymske"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201c\u2026 I am an officer, and an officer\u2019s honor demands of him to comply with the oath he has taken\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Reserve officer Igor from Ivano-Frankivsk is on his second rotation tour in the ATO zone in the area of Krymske. Here he leads a reconnaissance platoon. He says that their positons are 1200 m from the separatist positions. Here the ceasefire is conditional \u2013 it is a rare days that passes without terrorist provocations.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2015\/03\/PM639image002.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3437 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2015\/03\/PM639image002.jpg\" alt=\"PM639image002\" width=\"566\" height=\"328\" srcset=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2015\/03\/PM639image002.jpg 566w, https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2015\/03\/PM639image002-300x174.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 566px) 100vw, 566px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Igor had a good position back in his peacetime life \u2013 the deputy-director of a company dealing with computers. But this man has changed his warm and comfortable director\u2019s office for a bunker and a military uniform. \u201cYou know, maybe it is my restless soul. I took part in all three revolutions, starting with the students\u2019 revolution on the concrete in 1991, and also participated in the other more recent events. I considered this as my public duty. Besides, I am an officer, and officer\u2019s honor demands of him to comply with the oath he has taken. While I was in the reserve I received my military education\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Igor tells that in the past few years he became very interested in military issues \u2013 while he undertook his higher education he went to reservists\u2019 trainings. While talking he is joking that he had anticipated that in the near future he might need these skills. He now finds that he was correct in such anticipation.<\/p>\n<p>During his first rotation period he was tasked with the defense of Popasna. That time, like now, his block-post was often under shelling. The so-called \u2018regime of silence\u2019 was violated every day. \u201cWe were shelled by mortars when we got to Popasna. There were also military actions by the terrorists, but the distance between our cordons and cordons of the separatists was a little bit larger than now in Krymske.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2015\/03\/PM210image004.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3438\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2015\/03\/PM210image004-230x130.jpg\" alt=\"PM210image004\" width=\"230\" height=\"130\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2015\/03\/PM672image006.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3439\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2015\/03\/PM672image006-230x130.jpg\" alt=\"PM672image006\" width=\"230\" height=\"130\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2015\/03\/PM903image008.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3440\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2015\/03\/PM903image008-230x130.jpg\" alt=\"PM903image008\" width=\"230\" height=\"130\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The village of Krymske, where Igor\u2019s unit is stationed, is nearly destroyed. There are not many local people left, and there are problems with electricity, heating and water. Now the militants don\u2019t shell the village. However the separatists don\u2019t give up their probes against the national guards<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2015\/03\/PM79image010.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3441 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2015\/03\/PM79image010.jpg\" alt=\"PM79image010\" width=\"566\" height=\"377\" srcset=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2015\/03\/PM79image010.jpg 566w, https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2015\/03\/PM79image010-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 566px) 100vw, 566px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe truce is quite provisional \u2013diversionary activity from the terrorists side happens almost every day. For example, diversionary troops infiltrate up to 400 m away from us. Yes, artillery does not work against us, but shooting continues. Last evening they shot at us from grenade launchers, AGSs, and small arms. Sometimes a separatist tank will pull-up, fire a few times and then retreat. We don\u2019t react on such provocations; we don\u2019t even shoot back if not necessary\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2015\/03\/PM976image012.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3442 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2015\/03\/PM976image012.jpg\" alt=\"PM976image012\" width=\"566\" height=\"377\" srcset=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2015\/03\/PM976image012.jpg 566w, https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2015\/03\/PM976image012-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 566px) 100vw, 566px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the area of the block-post there is one road which the soldiers don\u2019t walk, they run it because it is so dangerous. Igor himself tells that the responsibilities and tasks in Krymske are much more serious than in Popasna. With such close proximity to the separatists the men of the national guardian have no margin for any small mistake.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2015\/03\/PM129image014.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3443\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2015\/03\/PM129image014.jpg\" alt=\"PM129image014\" width=\"566\" height=\"377\" srcset=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2015\/03\/PM129image014.jpg 566w, https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2015\/03\/PM129image014-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 566px) 100vw, 566px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cOf course it is scary. It is lie that it is not scary. But we continue due to our will power, and our understanding of duty.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/mvs.gov.ua\/mvs\/control\/main\/uk\/publish\/article\/1376904\">http:\/\/mvs.gov.ua\/mvs\/control\/main\/uk\/publish\/article\/1376904<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Translated by Andrii Gryganskyi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201c\u2026 I am an officer, and an officer\u2019s honor demands of him to comply with the oath&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3437,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,528],"tags":[33,379,137,344,240],"class_list":["post-3436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mainnews","category-news","tag-ato","tag-krymske","tag-national-guard","tag-national-guard-servicemen","tag-war-in-ukraine"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - 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Here he leads a reconnaissance platoon. He says that their positons are 1200 m from the separatist positions. Here the ceasefire is conditional \u2013 it is a rare days that passes without terrorist provocations.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2015\/03\/PM639image002.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-3437 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2015\/03\/PM639image002.jpg\" alt=\"PM639image002\" width=\"566\" height=\"328\" \/><\/a>\r\n\r\nIgor had a good position back in his peacetime life \u2013 the deputy-director of a company dealing with computers. But this man has changed his warm and comfortable director\u2019s office for a bunker and a military uniform. \u201cYou know, maybe it is my restless soul. I took part in all three revolutions, starting with the students\u2019 revolution on the concrete in 1991, and also participated in the other more recent events. I considered this as my public duty. Besides, I am an officer, and officer\u2019s honor demands of him to comply with the oath he has taken. While I was in the reserve I received my military education\u201d.\r\n\r\nIgor tells that in the past few years he became very interested in military issues \u2013 while he undertook his higher education he went to reservists\u2019 trainings. While talking he is joking that he had anticipated that in the near future he might need these skills. He now finds that he was correct in such anticipation.\r\n\r\nDuring his first rotation period he was tasked with the defense of Popasna. That time, like now, his block-post was often under shelling. The so-called \u2018regime of silence\u2019 was violated every day. \u201cWe were shelled by mortars when we got to Popasna. There were also military actions by the terrorists, but the distance between our cordons and cordons of the separatists was a little bit larger than now in Krymske.\u201d\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2015\/03\/PM210image004.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3438\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2015\/03\/PM210image004-230x130.jpg\" alt=\"PM210image004\" width=\"230\" height=\"130\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2015\/03\/PM672image006.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3439\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2015\/03\/PM672image006-230x130.jpg\" alt=\"PM672image006\" width=\"230\" height=\"130\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2015\/03\/PM903image008.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3440\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2015\/03\/PM903image008-230x130.jpg\" alt=\"PM903image008\" width=\"230\" height=\"130\" \/><\/a>\r\n\r\nThe village of Krymske, where Igor\u2019s unit is stationed, is nearly destroyed. There are not many local people left, and there are problems with electricity, heating and water. Now the militants don\u2019t shell the village. However the separatists don\u2019t give up their probes against the national guards\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2015\/03\/PM79image010.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-3441 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2015\/03\/PM79image010.jpg\" alt=\"PM79image010\" width=\"566\" height=\"377\" \/><\/a>\r\n\r\n\u201cThe truce is quite provisional \u2013diversionary activity from the terrorists side happens almost every day. For example, diversionary troops infiltrate up to 400 m away from us. Yes, artillery does not work against us, but shooting continues. Last evening they shot at us from grenade launchers, AGSs, and small arms. Sometimes a separatist tank will pull-up, fire a few times and then retreat. We don\u2019t react on such provocations; we don\u2019t even shoot back if not necessary\u201d.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2015\/03\/PM976image012.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-3442 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2015\/03\/PM976image012.jpg\" alt=\"PM976image012\" width=\"566\" height=\"377\" \/><\/a>\r\n\r\nIn the area of the block-post there is one road which the soldiers don\u2019t walk, they run it because it is so dangerous. Igor himself tells that the responsibilities and tasks in Krymske are much more serious than in Popasna. With such close proximity to the separatists the men of the national guardian have no margin for any small mistake.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2015\/03\/PM129image014.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3443\" src=\"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2015\/03\/PM129image014.jpg\" alt=\"PM129image014\" width=\"566\" height=\"377\" \/><\/a>\r\n\r\n\u201cOf course it is scary. It is lie that it is not scary. But we continue due to our will power, and our understanding of duty.\u201d\r\n\r\nSource: <a href=\"http:\/\/mvs.gov.ua\/mvs\/control\/main\/uk\/publish\/article\/1376904\">http:\/\/mvs.gov.ua\/mvs\/control\/main\/uk\/publish\/article\/1376904<\/a>\r\n\r\nTranslated by Andrii Gryganskyi.","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3436"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3671,"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3436\/revisions\/3671"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}