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How did you get to Ukraine and in which block?
It was a little easier for me than for others. Back in 2021, we left the unit for a training mission to the Yavoriv training ground in Ukraine. And I worked with these people there, established contacts. When the war started, they were going to leave for Kiev. And the fact that I knew their company commanders, the battalion headquarters, the battalion commander—I agreed that I would go with them.
That is, it was a linear unit, it was not some kind of volunteer battalion?
This is a special forces battalion. (214. Separate special battalion of the OPFOR, a unit formed in 2016 from participants of the anti-terrorist operation-ed.).
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