Museum meeting "Invasion"

21 February 2024 year in the Chernihiv regional historical museum named after. VV. Tarnovsky, the "Invasion" museum meeting was held on the second anniversary of the beginning of the full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation into Ukraine.

21.02.24 Dr.. – 728 war day. We remember, що війна триває вже 10 years. However,, exactly 24 February 2022 year became a new starting point. Literally, all Ukrainians felt and feel the war. Someone lost relatives during the war, many people went to the ranks of the Armed Forces and, about, 9 million. українських біженців шукають прихисток по країнах світу. So, the war touched everyone, but in his own way. And today the Russian Federation is shelling Ukrainian territories, alarms sound periodically, people are dying… And so we are talking about the second anniversary of a full-scale invasion.

At the museum meeting, the events of two years ago in Chernihiv region were recalled. They remembered the internal tension, which has been felt since the end of autumn 2021 year.

Tensions and concerns arose over joint Russian-Belarusian military exercises, which took place in autumn 2021 year in the immediate vicinity of the Ukrainian border. Russia transferred military equipment thousands of kilometers away to the territory of Belarus.

10- February 20 2022 another joint Russian-Belarusian military exercise "Union Resolve - 2022" was held. Станом на 18 February 2022 Russia concentrated 170,000–190,000 military personnel near the border with Ukraine and in the temporarily occupied territories. Battalion tactical groups are maneuvering (BTG). At the beginning of February, the "Center" group is stationed opposite the Chernihiv and Sumy regions, which counts over 30 an army of thousands. Штаб угруповання перебував в м. Unecha, Bryansk region.

На початку 2022 "Zametil 2022" training of the Ukrainian military takes place. Three weeks of training, moving equipment.

24 February 2022 year became a new stage of the Russian-Ukrainian war for Ukraine. О 5-й годині ранку зс рф обстріляли наших прикордонників, airfields were struck, including. at the airfield of the State Emergency Service in Nizhyn, навчальному центрі у Гончарівську.

Group "Center", which was located on the borders of Chernihiv and Sumy regions counted up to 30 thousand. personnel, 10 thousand. units of equipment. Directly in the Chernihiv direction - 15 yew soldier, to 5 thousand. техніки.

Russian troops entered the territory of the region in the Gremyacha region, між Добрянкою і Сеньківкою через Городню на Ріпки, Mykhailo-Kotsyubynsk, Shestovytsy and beyond.

A.m 24.02.22 year, the invaders passed through Semenivka, Novgorod- Siversky, Horodnya. It was moving unprecedented long columns of military equipment. The largest column was long 34 km. For visualization, this is the distance from Chernihiv to Ripok. The columns were moving, bypassing small settlements. Their task was to cover the distance quickly, occupy Chernihiv, turn it into a logistics hub, and then move to Kyiv.

The many thousands of enemy units in Chernihiv Oblast resisted 1 separate Siver tank brigade, 58 separate motorized infantry brigade, полк національної Гвардії із Шостки, border guards, territorial defense fighters.

Returning again and again in my mind to those stormy days of February - March 2022 year, the first confusion is also mentioned, and difficult awareness of the event, what's going on, and fear.

But there were people, who from the first days decided to defend their city. Course, це перш за все військові ЗСУ, in addition, territorial defense fighters.

Згадували події гарячої фази оборони міста наші гості – захисники: Andriy Trebukh, call sign "Tick", lieutenant colonel, Knight of the Order of Bohdan Khmelnytskyi; Valentin Buryachenko, позивний «Редактор», Colonel of the Armed Forces; Evgeny Derkach, call sign "Bartender".

When meeting and communicating with different people, when the museum workers collected testimonies about the combat events near the city, residents told stories about the heroes of our meeting, some, it seemed, almost unbelievable stories. Plots for valuable motion pictures. However,, these are the realities of life and their struggles. Тож, those present had the opportunity to hear their own stories. It was "Klishch" with its three fighters who conducted the reconnaissance, leaving to meet enemy columns in the Ripok area, adjusted the fire of our artillery. And in the afternoon 24.02.22 near the village. The first battle took place in Rivne. Consequently, a large amount of enemy equipment was destroyed and time was gained for setting up positions and fixing our units on them. In the future "Mites" (that was the name of the group's fighters) performed various tasks: intelligence, aerial reconnaissance, evacuation of the wounded to Kyiv, delivery of goods for the Armed Forces, directly participated in the battles near the city.

At the meeting, lieutenant colonel V. Buryachenko presented his comrades with awards and decorations from the command.

Sincere stories did not leave those present indifferent. Words of gratitude to our defenders for their courage, devotion to the task of protecting our state. Слава Україні! Glory to the defenders of Ukraine!

Svitlana Zemlyanska, senior researcher