"Everything is clear": Krotevych exposed the commander of the Assault Forces on dancing to Russian tracks (video)
Oleksandr Stanislavovych, indeed, a good personnel decision, everything became clear," wrote a Ukrainian serviceman in X. In the video, you can see screen recordings of Manko's posts on Instagram and TikTok. In one of them, a soldier dances to an obscene song by the Russian underground ska-punk band Pnevmoslon.
In the other, he uses the mask "Who I am from "Slovo patsana"" inspired by the Russian crime series of 2023, to the remix of the song "Don't forget" by the Soviet-Russian female pop group "Kombinatsiya". At the time of publication, both videos can be found on the colonel's social networks. The first was published on Instagram on June 30, 2024, and on the same day on TikTok. Another video, with a mask from the series "The word of a boy", appeared on the page on December 12, 2023.
On September 20, during a meeting with journalists, President Volodymyr Zelenskyi said that Ukraine would create separate assault troops, as the relevant battalions and regiments had shown "good results" during the year. At the same time, in an interview dated August 18, the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces Oleksandr Syrskyi mentioned that Colonel Valentyn Manko heads the Assault Forces.
He described him as one of the leaders who were civilians before the war and opened up in the army after it began. "Military" informed that the formation of Assault Troops started this year, and they already include the 1st, 33rd, 210th, 225th and 425th separate assault regiments. Before his new appointment, Manko commanded the 33rd separate assault regiment, created in 2023 on the basis of a battalion.
Under his leadership, battles were fought in the Kharkiv and Kursk regions, as well as in the Pokrovsk region. Manko took an active part in the war since 2014, he organized and headed a volunteer unit, which became part of the "Right Sector" military unit. There he held the position of deputy commander. The unit took part in key battles of the anti-terrorist operation.
In 2024, the colonel received the title of Hero of Ukraine and the Order of the "Golden Star" for personal courage and heroism in the defense of state sovereignty. We will remind, on October 20, "Ukrzaliznytsia" reported that as a result of shelling by the Russian Armed Forces in the Sumy direction, the infrastructure was damaged. Because of this, trains run with delays, and passengers face changes in the flight schedule.