Deliberately violated the command of the commander: the history of the first deadly shot of the Armed Forces in the war against the Russian Federation
The history of this shot was told by the editor -in -chief of "Censor. NET" Yuri Butusov. The first shot of the Armed Forces was fired on April 13, 2014 near the city of Sloviansk in Donetsk region. On that day, the commander of the 80th Airborne Brigade of the Armed Forces Senior Lieutenant Vadim Sukharevsky gave the first in the history of Ukraine a combat order to open fire on the mercenaries of the Russian sabotage detachment of the FSB Colonel of the Russian Federation Igor Girkin (Strelkova).
The saboteurs attacked the meeting of the SBU leaders. The hostile balls were killed by the SBU Captain Gennady Bilichenko. Two more security officers were injured. Along with the scene, paratroopers, which were commanded by Lieutenant Sukharevsky, were in the arms. In one of these armored personnel carriers at that moment was the commander of the 80th separate landing brigade of the Armed Forces Colonel Viktor Kopachinsky.
He had previously ordered the paratroopers to discharge their weapons, discharge stores from AK and forbade the opening of fire in all circumstances without his personal team. When the battle began, the lieutenant colonel, according to Butusov, did not order to open fire. Then Lieutenant Vadim Sukharevsky took responsibility for himself and deliberately violated the order of the Kombrig. He gave the first historical combat order of the Armed Forces: "You shook - *Bash!", - Sukharevsky said.
The order was executed by the Nikolai Lavrenchuk BTR Soldier. It was he who was the first to charge the machine gun and opened fire on the defeat in the war against the Russian Federation. Gorkin saboteurs began to run after several automatic queues. According to Russian sources, two people from the group were liquidated, three more were injured. "When the battle started, I was in my place in BTR-80 No. 137.
According to the order of Colonel of Kopachinsky, my machine gun was discharged and I could not open fire at once. Sukharevsky gave an order, shouted on the radio, so I started to charge very quickly, very quickly. Everything was prepared, I saw that they were running out of Zelenka near us. . Sukharevsky's order saved the life of a group of officers and SBU generals.
Lieutenant Vadim Sukharevsky became a colonel, Deputy Commander -in -Chief of the Armed Forces, Commander of the Forces of Unmanned Systems. The 80th Brigade Edkombrig Viktor Kopachinsky does not serve in the army now, he holds the position of Chief of Service of the Main Directorate of the National Guard. Mykola Lavrenchuk became a national hero of Ukraine, from the first days of a full-scale invasion was in the ranks of the 80th brigade.