April 1, 2026

For 471 days, Ukrainian sergeant Serhiy Tyshchenko, 46, lived in a mud bunker dug under an asphalt road near Bakhmut.

Russian bodies piled up near the entrance. “We climbed over them and threw soil on them to kill the stink,” he says. “But it never goes”.

Tyshchenko says he arrived at the position when Biden was US president.

By the time he left, a new US leader was in charge and was “trying to persuade Ukraine to give up the land” he had defended for 471 days.

For 16 months, he stayed underground with so little air he felt close to suffocation.

He says hunger and extreme thirst were constant. More than once, the mud bunker collapsed around them. He got out alive and kept serving near the front.

“Everything is underground. Everything was dug out,” he says. “There was a trench at the entrance, then a section covered with logs and camouflaged with dirt and sand.”

Their position was dug right under an asphalt road.

Early in summer 2023, he says he and a comrade went to collect rations from a nearby bunker. A drone spotted them and chased them into a ditch. They hid behind tall grass. His friend said goodbye, convinced they would die.

Tyshchenko says he told his friend to run for the bunker. Both made it. He goes by the callsign Viter (“wind”).

He says that moment was only the beginning — “much worse was to come” once they were trapped holding that position.

In his first week, Tyshchenko says a russian assault team attacked their bunker.

One attacker ambushed Ukrainian soldiers in the entrance and killed three of Tyshchenko’s comrades — right in the narrow choke point where there was nowhere to move.

Tyshchenko says he rushed the attacker without a weapon and should have been shot.

The russian’s gun jammed. Before the attacker could clear it, another Ukrainian killed the russian. Tyshchenko survived by seconds.

After that assault, he says no one came to replace the dead. “Five, then four of us remained,” Tyshchenko recalls.

“I realised that we will sit here for a long time.” The danger was so high that getting men in or out became almost impossible.

Tyshchenko says russian drones hit them day and night. Their small observation window in the sandbags became a bullseye for russian FPV pilots.

They blocked it. He says the air worsened and breathing turned “laboured,” “asthmatic”, but the drones kept pounding the bunker.

Source: Tymofiy Mylovanov

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A dear little girl is shouting at the putinaZis to get out of her Ukraine.

Video here :

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Heartwarming :

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