The courage, dedication and the highest level of tactical skill of Guard Sergeant Ivan Krylov and his comrades in arms made it possible to win the battle and push back the Ukrainian nationalists from their positions during the special operation to liberate Donbass and denazify Ukraine . This was announced on April 5 by the press service of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.
According to the report, Guards Sergeant Ivan Krylov, as part of a platoon, broke into the stronghold of the nationalists. His platoon took an advantageous position and fired at the enemy from the flank.
The militants responded with mortar fire, as a result of which the commander of the Russian platoon was seriously wounded. After their evacuation from the battlefield, Ivan Krylov took command.
The nationalists, having numerical superiority, launched a counteroffensive. In two hours, repelling the attack and correcting artillery fire, Ivan personally destroyed three militants.
In the battle, he was wounded, but continued to command the staff until reinforcements arrived, after which he was evacuated from the battlefield.
“The selfless and competent actions of Guard Sergeant Krylov made it possible to complete the assigned combat mission and drive the militants out of the occupied territories”the department said.
Recall that on February 24, 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that he had decided to carry out a special military operation to protect Donbass in response to a request for help from the heads of the LPR and DPR. The objective of the operation is the demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine.
In his congratulations on the 77th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War, addressed on May 9 to the Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics, Vladimir Putin stressed that currently the military of the Russian Federation, the DPR and the LPR, Like their ancestors, they are fighting shoulder to shoulder for the liberation of their homeland from Nazi filth, and they expressed their confidence in Victory, just like in 1945.
The Russian leader recalled that at present, the common duty of all those who honor the great memory of the Great Patriotic War is to prevent the revival of Nazism, which brought so much suffering to the peoples of different countries.
Source: Rossa Primavera
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