Mariupol defender breaks down his famous Azovstal photos

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  • Опубликовано: 30 окт 2024

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  • @kyivindependent
    @kyivindependent  5 месяцев назад +12

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  • @brey6394
    @brey6394 5 месяцев назад +27

    So heart wrenching to listen to this my thoughts and prayers go out to all who were there. Slava Ukraini! 🇺🇦💙💛

  • @IrenESorius
    @IrenESorius 5 месяцев назад +22

    Thank you kindly KI,, 🇸🇪💞🇺🇦

  • @rffromusa8319
    @rffromusa8319 5 месяцев назад +15

    It is painful to witness these again and know the brave defenders are still in russian captivity being treated horribly.
    #FreeAzovstalDefenders 🙏🇺🇦

    • @tina.8629
      @tina.8629 5 месяцев назад +1

      Good Point... we should always remember .🙏

  • @thiking1
    @thiking1 5 месяцев назад +2

    Thanks for making this video 😢😢

  • @debbiemeyer4504
    @debbiemeyer4504 5 месяцев назад +37

    Very very important event in history. Thankfully documented so the rest of us can know how it felt. Those photos are so so valuable to the world. ❤❤💛💙

    • @kyivindependent
      @kyivindependent  5 месяцев назад +8

      couldn't agree more. thank you for watching!

  • @brunogilbert3121
    @brunogilbert3121 5 месяцев назад +19

    Massive love and support to you amazing Ukrainian people❤

  • @tina.8629
    @tina.8629 5 месяцев назад +3

    Thank you for sharing...... very important images..... the light will win.💙💛

  • @stefanocelentano2900
    @stefanocelentano2900 5 месяцев назад +25

    I always wondered what has happened to Orest and finally today, watching this interview, I'm releaved and happy to know that he is still alive and kicking. I can see in his eyes all the pain and suffering he've been through. Keep it strong man 💪

  • @Coriolanable
    @Coriolanable 5 месяцев назад

    Heartbreaking. Thanks for publishing.💛💙🇺🇦❤️❤️❤️❤️

  • @bigolboomerbelly4348
    @bigolboomerbelly4348 5 месяцев назад +12

    Thanks for telling your story. It means a lot to many millions. God save Ukraine.

  • @shamrock4500
    @shamrock4500 5 месяцев назад +21

    Thank you for this interview, I will never forget those photos.

  • @aldovalkovich755
    @aldovalkovich755 3 месяца назад

    Moving and heartbreaking testimony.
    All my respect.🙏

  • @OSheaDean
    @OSheaDean 5 месяцев назад +19

    Thank you. Not only for fighting for freedom, but for bearing witness.

  • @KellenDunnVPDFO
    @KellenDunnVPDFO 5 месяцев назад +4

    The Azovstal Defenders are the most courageous heroes of all time -- the represent courage, sacrifice, resilience, and humanity at its very best! I pray that all Ukrainian soldiers and POWs will return home safely to their families soon and get to grow old in a free, independent, victorious and peaceful Ukraine. As an American, I believe that every free citizen in the West owes Ukrainians a huge debt of gratitude for standing up and fighting for all our democratic values. Stay strong and safe, brave defenders of the free world. Thank you for this valuable, truthful and accurate reporting. Slava Ukraini. Slava Azov Heroes. Free Azovstal Defenders

  • @dieterziehe1163
    @dieterziehe1163 3 месяца назад

    Danke! A small help for you, very intersting video. Greetings from Germany, Berlin

    • @kyivindependent
      @kyivindependent  3 месяца назад

      Thank you so much for your support! We keep going thanks to the members of our community like you. Thank you! 🇺🇦

  • @WonderMagician
    @WonderMagician 5 месяцев назад +1

    A report delivered with unabashed honesty and sincerity. Love the absence of drama and hyperbole. Just the facts tell the truth!

  • @beachbum77979
    @beachbum77979 5 месяцев назад +1

    I'm glad the photos were published. The world needs to know. I'm sorry these photos had to be taken. But the world needs to know. I look forward to photos of healing and restoration. It will be a mix of grief and joy, but the world needs to see.
    Slava Ukraini !!

  • @iirgendsonTyp
    @iirgendsonTyp 5 месяцев назад +12

    The heroes of Azovstal made themselves immortal.
    Historians will still talk about Azovstal in 300 years

    • @mountainfrost7095
      @mountainfrost7095 5 месяцев назад +3

      Nobody significant remembers them already lol very wishful thinking to compare them to Spartans. How about ghost of KIEV?

  • @annconrad7171
    @annconrad7171 5 месяцев назад

    Thank you ❤

  • @Tbone1492
    @Tbone1492 5 месяцев назад +4

    Most I knew are gone from #2014. We still need to know who's responsible. No matter who it is!

  • @Whatsgoindowninyotown
    @Whatsgoindowninyotown 5 месяцев назад +1

    Beautiful documentary!

  • @rdbc-i6p
    @rdbc-i6p 5 месяцев назад

    Thanks!

  • @ludekspurny5553
    @ludekspurny5553 Месяц назад

    Azovstal defenders are true heroes. As a soldier myself I can’t imagine to hold a defence in such harsch enviroment. Big respect to all of them. I am persuaded their story will be writen by gold to Ukrainian history. They and all Ukrainian proved Ukraine deserve to be independent and free. The bought it by their own blood.

  • @TheCSClassroom
    @TheCSClassroom 5 месяцев назад +1

    The matter-of-fact honesty, and sheer goodness of this photographer and those who fought in Azovstal, many of whom are still in captivity, are the reason why Russia won't win. This is something that can't be defeated. There will be both highs and lows, but I still see light at the end of the tunnel.

    • @antebratincevic6764
      @antebratincevic6764 5 месяцев назад

      Those in Azovstal also saw the light at the end of the tunnels, but they were mistaken, they were run over by a Russian train.
      It is the same with Ukraine now. It is better for them to realize that the light at the end of the tunnel is not the exit from the tunnel, but the Russian train that is already trampling them.

    • @TheCSClassroom
      @TheCSClassroom 5 месяцев назад

      @@antebratincevic6764 Typical Z-patriot reply. "Just lie down and let the Russians erase Ukrainian culture and people". Even if it is the end, which I don't believe, it's better to go down fighting.

  • @sarahcurley7639
    @sarahcurley7639 5 месяцев назад

    Thank you. Continual praers for all the people of Ukraine. Prayers for the defenders...❤❤❤

  • @bryonyallan2202
    @bryonyallan2202 5 месяцев назад +1

    Heroes.❤️ Slava Ukraini.

  • @tomasmoro7672
    @tomasmoro7672 5 месяцев назад +8

    ¿Nazi?

  • @Dunois36
    @Dunois36 5 месяцев назад

    Keep up the great work!

  • @buhlerthomas2263
    @buhlerthomas2263 5 месяцев назад

    Danke!

  • @LearningSpanishwithDrL
    @LearningSpanishwithDrL 5 месяцев назад +10

    Peace to Ukraine!

  • @kopyloffandrew
    @kopyloffandrew 5 месяцев назад

    Astonishing people. I never thought I would be proud of my homeland

  • @SuperLaplander
    @SuperLaplander 5 месяцев назад +4

    Thank you for telling us your story. I really liked you saying it was teamwork!

  • @deecee1522
    @deecee1522 5 месяцев назад +1

    SLAVA UKRAINI❤‍🔥

  • @RallenBosessen
    @RallenBosessen 5 месяцев назад

    Sending love

  • @TheRealKhannie
    @TheRealKhannie 5 месяцев назад +5

    Beautiful video. What a kind and thoughtful chap.

  • @MrLogo73
    @MrLogo73 5 месяцев назад +7

    Mariupol is a nice Russian town now. Painted new. Rebuilt. Not as rotten as it was under Kiev's regime.

    • @laura_7577
      @laura_7577 Месяц назад

      Mariupol is under russian occupation, and they have thrown up some Ptomkin housing blocks over the graves for propaganda purposes - for russian settlers to live in.

  • @usmarine4636
    @usmarine4636 5 месяцев назад +4

    Blessings from the US...the light will win!!!!!

  • @HectorCandelasOrtega
    @HectorCandelasOrtega 5 месяцев назад +1

    Ukrainian soldiers are so brave 🇺🇦

  • @MRFGP
    @MRFGP 5 месяцев назад

    #SLAVAUKRAINI STILL sacrificing and fighting for all OUR tomorrows to be safe and free xxxx honour, respect, gratitude and love always xxx #HEROYAMSLAVA Putin does not deserve to breath the same air as this noble, humble, wonderfully typical Ukrainian man xxx

  • @kirstinevad347
    @kirstinevad347 5 месяцев назад +4

    My warmest greetins to all of Azowstaals defenders and their loved ones.
    Rest in peace to those who died. My condolences to those who lost a loved one. 🌹💙💛

  • @antebratincevic6764
    @antebratincevic6764 5 месяцев назад +4

    “The idea of the Ukraine, one of the main national ideas of the Ukraine, is to lie as much as possible to oneself and to others. Because if one tells the truth, everything will collapse, and it would be necessary to invent something else. That’s our fundamental imbalanced contradiction.” - Aleksej Arestovič, some time before 2022.

  • @WonderMagician
    @WonderMagician 5 месяцев назад

    May every community in our world be blessed with the presence of a man of profound humility and integrity: Dmytro Kozatskyi, call sign "Orest,"

  • @raytaylor3077
    @raytaylor3077 5 месяцев назад +11

    who stole the money ? why were the fortifications not built ? who is responsible for this ?

  • @saldussapnai3464
    @saldussapnai3464 5 месяцев назад

  • @livefastdieyoung8703
    @livefastdieyoung8703 5 месяцев назад +9

    They were told many times to surrender but they refused so now why all the crying stuffs ...??

    • @laura_7577
      @laura_7577 Месяц назад

      Maybe russia shouldn't have launched their brutal and illegal invasion of conquest against their peaceful neighbouring country?

  • @UnexpectedJourney59Eng
    @UnexpectedJourney59Eng 5 месяцев назад +11

    From this British Veteran... Absolute Respect, you were Warriors on a par with the 300 Spartans!

  • @KatsCats2619
    @KatsCats2619 5 месяцев назад +7

    AZOV👊🏼🇺🇦💙💛

  • @AngeMichelBlanchett
    @AngeMichelBlanchett 5 месяцев назад

    This brave soldier and amazing photographer won't have any difficulty in get a job with big media outlets as a photo journalist.
    I'm happy he's alive and doing well. In true the infamous place....the Putin horrible crimes against the Ukranian people....all this is acceptable to say the minimum. I hope the survivors can cope with their PTSD and live their lives in peace in a prosperous Ukranian nation. All the best for you all. The humankind will win the barbaric ones and I still do believe in the humankind because ppl like this Ukranian brave soldier as well as ppl all over the world trying to bring the best of their good hearts. Thank you The kyev independent staff.

  • @DominikGentener
    @DominikGentener 5 месяцев назад +1

    Thank you for this report. I really love your content.

  • @usmarine4636
    @usmarine4636 5 месяцев назад +3

    The heroes of the free world!

    • @Nooneapparently
      @Nooneapparently 5 месяцев назад +4

      What free world are you talking about? Where is it

    • @maxctv8223
      @maxctv8223 5 месяцев назад +1

      Heroes of bandera... Nazy!!

  • @finlaypaterson2144
    @finlaypaterson2144 5 месяцев назад

    🇬🇧❤️🇺🇦🙏

  • @jobguerekull1267
    @jobguerekull1267 5 месяцев назад +8

    Ah the Azov battalion. The notorious Neo Nazi unit with the Wolves hook as their unit insignia😂😂

    • @Swingitan
      @Swingitan 5 месяцев назад

      Les russes de 2024 sont les nazis de 1940, car ce sont bien les russes qui envahissent l'Ukraine comme Hitler envahissait l'europe entière!!! Facile à comprendre pour un troll payé en rouble.

    • @laura_7577
      @laura_7577 Месяц назад

      Russian lies 🤡

  • @alphaastro3068
    @alphaastro3068 5 месяцев назад +4

    It’s sad to see how kids of poor are made to die while kids of rich enjoy their lives .

    • @markovilipic4102
      @markovilipic4102 5 месяцев назад

      ammmmmmmm heyyyyyyy, youuu kindaaaaa sooundddd like aaaaaa RUSKI BOT!

  • @eveli1593
    @eveli1593 5 месяцев назад

    Crying all the way through this. Tears, tears, tears, 😭

    • @magmegmigmogmug1476
      @magmegmigmogmug1476 5 месяцев назад

      Are you Ukranian?

    • @eveli1593
      @eveli1593 5 месяцев назад

      I am Chinese and feel ashamed that Putin is in Beijing now. Many of us r disgusted 🤮 🤢

  • @stonefish1318
    @stonefish1318 5 месяцев назад

    💛🔱💙 Slava Ukraini! Heroyam Slava! ❤️🖤

  • @MCSonixx
    @MCSonixx 5 месяцев назад

    🇺🇦🦁💪

  • @reload.8056
    @reload.8056 5 месяцев назад +6

    Stepan Bandera and Biden approves this message

  • @KIETHEFord
    @KIETHEFord 5 месяцев назад

    Popularity dous not equal value: wise words

  • @andybenson2971
    @andybenson2971 5 месяцев назад +5

    What Ukraine?

  • @abrakadavra3193
    @abrakadavra3193 5 месяцев назад +7

    I'd like to see all of this guy's tatooes :)

    • @vistakay
      @vistakay 5 месяцев назад +3

      ;)

    • @markojuric4954
      @markojuric4954 5 месяцев назад +2

      You looking for a Baphomet . . . :)

    • @bigolboomerbelly4348
      @bigolboomerbelly4348 5 месяцев назад

      Gay

    • @kopyloffandrew
      @kopyloffandrew 5 месяцев назад

      Well, you now know his name, his face, maybe you contact him if this is really your fetish? He might like it too. Come check it out

  • @branesjimatsson
    @branesjimatsson 5 месяцев назад +3

    Ukropi su pobjegli kao štakori pod zemlju.

    • @antebratincevic6764
      @antebratincevic6764 5 месяцев назад +1

      I držali žene i dicu ka taoce da ako ih puste da Rusi nji puste . . . šljam najgori sa Baphometima , Banderama i Hitlerima istetoviranima.

  • @mishaillich9728
    @mishaillich9728 5 месяцев назад

    Go on Ukrainians!

  • @princechifundire727
    @princechifundire727 5 месяцев назад +9

    You shouldn't poke the bear

  • @TheRealBillBob
    @TheRealBillBob 5 месяцев назад +7

    Iron resistance? They were holed up like rats being shielded by women and children. 🙄🙄

  • @sebchenkooo
    @sebchenkooo 5 месяцев назад +4

    by sitting undergound while being bombarded for 3 months is a last stand???lmfaoooo

  • @leo99gamerdelsignore6
    @leo99gamerdelsignore6 5 месяцев назад +3

    I will never forget the heroes of Azovstal. What a beautiful and humble person this heroe is!

  • @luke.4317
    @luke.4317 5 месяцев назад +8

    ask those defenders to show their tatoos

  • @Oblivisci........
    @Oblivisci........ 5 месяцев назад

    🇺🇦💙💛♥️🇺🇸

  • @usmarine4636
    @usmarine4636 5 месяцев назад +2

    The light will win against the Antichrist!

  • @spencethegreat38
    @spencethegreat38 5 месяцев назад +10

    Iron propaganda

    • @Swingitan
      @Swingitan 5 месяцев назад

      davai, slava ukraine et gloire aux héros.💛💙💛💙

  • @oggierock
    @oggierock 5 месяцев назад +8

    Ukraine is making history and Russia is repeating the history many would like to forget. Russia will go further back in history to medieval times, a path they chose themselves.

    • @danielborja9109
      @danielborja9109 5 месяцев назад +5

      What?

    • @FFS33
      @FFS33 5 месяцев назад +3

      Stop smoking crack

    • @oggierock
      @oggierock 5 месяцев назад

      @@danielborja9109 is a unit of electricity

    • @kirstinevad347
      @kirstinevad347 5 месяцев назад

      @oggierock So true 💕

    • @mountainfrost7095
      @mountainfrost7095 5 месяцев назад +2

      ​​@@oggierockUkraine winning in Medias but they aren't doing good at the moment on the frontline. It's downhill after the initial counter-offensive success.

  • @alinharagus
    @alinharagus 5 месяцев назад

    I have his book with the photos from Azovstal ❤

  • @dweamy1
    @dweamy1 5 месяцев назад +1

    All those sacrifices could have been avoided if the peace talks back in 2022 had been completed. Ukraine walked out after Boris Johnson's visit.

    • @laura_7577
      @laura_7577 Месяц назад

      That is a lie. Why do you lie for russian fascists?

  • @iliveoak
    @iliveoak 5 месяцев назад

    Heartbroken for all Ukrainian defenders who are still in russian captivity. Amnesty International and the International Red Cross do absolutely nothing to help return POWs back to Ukraine or even visit them to protect them from torture and inhumane conditions of detention. Useless organizations that only collect money and do not fulfill their duties.

  • @robertoandreamadonna6025
    @robertoandreamadonna6025 5 месяцев назад +7

    Don't you show your nazis tattoo?

  • @bolanrana8401
    @bolanrana8401 5 месяцев назад +2

    Therefore we say WAR is ugly. Humanity suffers

  • @jackbenny4458
    @jackbenny4458 5 месяцев назад +5

    Slava!

  • @kellahella5286
    @kellahella5286 5 месяцев назад +6

    🔱HEROYAM🇺🇦SLAVA🔱

  • @mitchellchancey9868
    @mitchellchancey9868 5 месяцев назад +3

    🤟

  • @frankrenda2519
    @frankrenda2519 5 месяцев назад +4

    they gave up like cowards

  • @Randomized91
    @Randomized91 5 месяцев назад +8

    can we see those tattoos in your body? if there is some swastikas or waffen SS symbols

    • @WarThunderista
      @WarThunderista 5 месяцев назад

      He had a lot of pictures on his twitter account with 1488 on his clothes and drawing swastika on his food. He deleted everything after he got into focus of western media. That was before their surrender in Azovstal.

  • @nicolaebulgaru
    @nicolaebulgaru 5 месяцев назад +2

    Thanks. I regret that i am unable to do more to help you.

    • @kyivindependent
      @kyivindependent  5 месяцев назад

      Thank you for your support! Even this comment means the world.

  • @dimsum947
    @dimsum947 5 месяцев назад +2

    They literally surrendered, how is that iron resistance? There Chechens were able to drive Russian into a 2nd war before they ultimately surrendered as well

  • @huanghermann5207
    @huanghermann5207 5 месяцев назад +8

    Mariupol has fallen, hasn't it? Iron resistance only exists in photo, I guess.

    • @markojuric4954
      @markojuric4954 5 месяцев назад +2

      And on Yotube as well . . . :)

  • @andrepereira9
    @andrepereira9 5 месяцев назад +6

    Better hide the tattos

  • @wilvanveen3290
    @wilvanveen3290 5 месяцев назад +14

    well, nazi azov lost, fortunately. eastern ukraine returns home. Not clear to me why people support nazism against Russians again.

    • @kirstinevad347
      @kirstinevad347 5 месяцев назад

      The regime that much more similar to theNazis are your own regime. Killing women and children, filtration camps, killing or imprisoning those that the regime doesnt like. I pity you for reprating Stalin times of war and killing, when your country is rich with natural resources if you didnt have that nazistic and mafialike regime. Please use your time and resspurces to make Russia a god place to live, instead of attacking other countries with your hybrid warfare.

  • @alfredmakaveli6622
    @alfredmakaveli6622 5 месяцев назад +2

    Slava Russia

  • @princeiffi1
    @princeiffi1 5 месяцев назад +8

    Stop spreading propoganda.....i saw mariupol is transform completely and look like a tourist destination....good work Russia.

    • @mannyhernandez6507
      @mannyhernandez6507 5 месяцев назад +1

      Ah yes, the Russian troll propaganda😂

    • @chugachuga9242
      @chugachuga9242 5 месяцев назад +1

      Obvious troll, but just saying that even if Russia rebuilt it and it looks beautiful right now doesn’t negate the fact that Russia is the one who leveled it to begin with.

    • @Swingitan
      @Swingitan 5 месяцев назад

      La russie a détruit Marioupol comme elle va détruire Karkhiv.
      Honte au peuple russe de soutenir cette invasion et ce massacre du peuple ukrainien.
      Gloire à l'Ukraine et à ses héros💛💙💛💙

    • @romana.in.wonderland
      @romana.in.wonderland 5 месяцев назад

      Who destroyed the city? Why has it to be rebuild? No one living there asked for all of this. Shame on Russia.

  • @kikou93p
    @kikou93p 5 месяцев назад

    Merci !

  • @fazemakazi6901
    @fazemakazi6901 5 месяцев назад +5

    Маріуполь це російське місто і залишиться з Росією

    • @laura_7577
      @laura_7577 Месяц назад

      Mariupol is Ukraine, no matter what ethnic cleansing and colonisation russia tries to use to change that.

  • @leonardleonard3769
    @leonardleonard3769 5 месяцев назад +4

    Странно, что против лопат сложно противостоять..

  • @mnblkjh6757
    @mnblkjh6757 5 месяцев назад +1

    🇺🇦👍😢

  • @markojuric4954
    @markojuric4954 5 месяцев назад +4

    Funny guy . . . he went to war and he is talking about bombs and hard life . . . :)

    • @laura_7577
      @laura_7577 Месяц назад

      He didn't go anywhere, he was in his home city and the russians invaded and attacked them.

  • @FFS33
    @FFS33 5 месяцев назад +12

    Where are the babushkas to stop the russians in northern front ? The russians are just walking in , they found no ukie soldier , no defenders , the russians occupied it like they are in vacation

    • @kirstinevad347
      @kirstinevad347 5 месяцев назад

      Please reconcider your source of news. Your government is lying to you. You are loosing young men at the batlefield dead or cripled by the hundredthousands. Save some russian lives and stop attacking your neighbours.
      Work together to the benefit of both your contries. Others can do it. You can too. Stop sending bombs and soldiers to Ukraine.

    • @Lordnumptynous
      @Lordnumptynous 5 месяцев назад +1

      They were all round your mums house...

    • @kirstinevad347
      @kirstinevad347 5 месяцев назад

      I dont know where you get your information. The russians are taking heavy casualties and another plane was downed. Putins regime doesnt seem to care about the loss off russian lives if they can get some square kilometers of land, that doesn't belong to you.

  • @mussydesign7933
    @mussydesign7933 5 месяцев назад +5

    you lost, and only an idiot would allow himself to be captured

  • @dobricastefanovic5237
    @dobricastefanovic5237 5 месяцев назад +6

    Dying for someone else's interests is stupid!

  • @iirgendsonTyp
    @iirgendsonTyp 5 месяцев назад +3

    Slava ukraini

  • @jaymacpherson8167
    @jaymacpherson8167 5 месяцев назад

    🥲

  • @murielkerr-bell8007
    @murielkerr-bell8007 5 месяцев назад +1

    😔 sorry