Third assault: Biletsky shared the history of creation of the brigade and preparation for a full -scale war

Thousands of people across Ukraine passed such training every week. "Of these people, the special unit" Kraken "was born in Kharkiv, from these people were born in Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporizhia, Kherson, Mykolaiv, Kharkiv, Lugansk, Sumy, Poltava, Chernihiv and Kiev regions," - said Biletsky. The skeleton of this movement was the veterans of "Azov", as well as participants of the youth patriotic organization "Centuria".

Biletsky called her contribution to the defense of Ukraine a separate theme for analysis after the end of the war: "She [Centuria. - Ed. ] Numbered about 1,100 people. Of these 1100 people, 1040 went to serve. In this minute, seven of them - Heroes of Ukraine. " Many volunteers who stood at the origins of the Third Sturmova participated in the war at its beginning - in the spring of 2014, when armed Russian militants tried to seize Kharkiv. The first battle of the occupiers was given to the Rimar.

According to Biletsky, the Patriots did not receive any assistance from the then authorities of the city and law enforcement officers. "Half of the police were with" St. George's ribbons. "No one knew who would be Kharkiv whose two would take it. And the comrades have already died, " - said Biletsky. He stated that at the beginning of the Russian invasion was already a ready -made plan, within an hour the officers began work at the spare command point: everything happened as planned.

In three weeks, only two thousand fighters were involved in Kiev. Similar voluntary units were also formed in cities - Kharkiv, Sumy, Poltava, Dnipro and others. "Certainly, at first it was a police army, in the style of Makhno's primary parents. Half people do not have combat experience, weapons only light shooting. And this group of people took part in batt . These are key points where the Russian breakthrough should take place, "Biletsky said.

In the summer of 2022, he suggested that then the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces Valery Zaluzhny to create a brigade, to which he received consent: "We took our boys from the 98th Batu Dnipropetrovsk to Kiev. We pulled units from Poltava, Luhansk, Sumy, partially Kharkiv, many of our units. Volyn, Galicia. " This is how the Third Separate Storm Brigade of the Armed Forces - is now one of the largest units in the Land Forces.