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128 brigade in face #53, Oleksandr, call sign "Catfish", grenade launcher operator

"I shot an enemy BMP (infantry fighting vehicle) from 50 meters. The fireworks went off in a big way!"


- I fought against Russia since 2015, voluntarily went to the front. And after demobilization and a short rest, I've signed contracts several more times. In those years, I met our current combatant, who was a company commander at the time. He never abandons soldiers in trouble, so I decided to go where he was - to the 128th brigade.


I am a grenade launcher operator. I worked with foreign ATGMs, for example, NLAW, but in the end I stopped at the old Soviet RPG-7 base. It's simple launcher, but unpretentious, reliable and efficient. I destroyed a Russian BMP-2 with an RPG-7.


The combat vehicle was intact, just next to it a tank blew up on a mine and the crew decided to escape. There was no way to carture that BMP, so the commander set the task to destroy it. With three scouts, we got to the whole side, then I put on an active headphones, approached the BMP 50 meters away and fired three times from a grenade launcher. The fireworks turned out to be very prophetic, the tower was even turned around. By the way, before the shots were fired, something was glowing in the triplex, perhaps part of the BMP crew or paratroopers was in the middle. But I don't feel sorry for them.


A month ago I was injured. We left the settlement and stopped on the roadside between the trees. And then the mortar shelling began. I was standing on the side of the car when one mine exploded nearby. Neighboring trees were cut down like a scythe, and I was thrown under the caterpillar by shock wave. When I came to my senses, everything around me was whistling, flying, flapping. My head was splitting, but I realized that I had to survive, and I asked for help on the walkie-talkie. Then it occurred to me that one of the fragments hit me in the chest. Fortunately, the bulletproof vest stoped that fragment, so I survived. I will be in the Armed Forces until we drive these monsters out of our land...


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