The other day, a well-known aerial scout with the call sign "Magyar" released a video showing how, on the outskirts of Bakhmut, one of the servicemen, under heavy fire, despite the explosions and flames, crawled between shell craters to a burning car in order to save another soldier from there.

The clip, on which only a few minutes of the struggle for Bakhmut was filmed, went viral on the Internet.

How everything happened - in a comment for

TSN.ua

, Kharkiv soldier

Mykola Kirichenko

, who saved his brother, the father of a 6-month-old child, told about it.

"At first we heard the sound of an aircraft coming somewhere nearby, we learned that a pickup truck had been hit. As it turned out, it was from an enemy ATGM (anti-tank missile system - Ed.), - says Mykola Kirichenko. - I ran in that direction with another serviceman. Next to the burning car saw the wounded man, I began to drag him to a safe place. At this time, the mortar shelling continued and intensified. After a while, the wounded man named Serhii was able to get on his feet, we ran with him to a safe place, where he was given medical assistance. Not even I know that it helped me not to get lost at that moment. I just ran to save and that's all."

According to Mykola Kirichenko, he later found out that Serhii felt much better after receiving medical help.

Mykola tells about himself briefly and modestly: "I am 25 years old, in March I went to the military headquarters with a friend, and later got here. I can say the following about the military situation in our country: mortar fire continues. But, in order not to write Russian propagandists, no one from we will not be there, on the contrary, I believe that there will only be an offensive."  

In turn, as Mykola Kyrychenko's colleague and manager, Yury Nychyporenko, told TSN.ua, at one time this serviceman himself wrote a report in which he asked to be sent to the front line.

Photo: Press service of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

"Mykola works in our company (she is the leader in sales of household appliances) as a security system engineer," Yuriy Nychyporenko told us. love for Ukraine. When we all saw the video of Mykola rescuing another soldier, tears welled up. There was a sense of pride for this boy and his act, pride because you know this man. He himself went to the military headquarters at the beginning of the Russian invasion, later he wrote a report about his desire to fight on the front lines."

The strategic importance of Bakhmut: what is known

Recently, military expert Oleg Zhdanov explained the strategic significance of Bakhmut.

He announced this on his YouTube channel.

According to the expert, if Bakhmut is captured, the way to Slavyansk will be opened before the invaders.

"But that's not the point. In case the occupiers take Bakhmut, we have the next line of defense ready there. They won't advance any further. And they have to keep on going to Slovyansk," Zhdanov noted.

The expert once again emphasized that the fact of victory is not important for the Russian Federation, but the strategic importance of the city.

"They need to "sell" something to their citizens and show it to the West in order to put pressure on the West. They need a break in the war. This (Russian. - Ed.) army is exhaling. The quality, combat capability is falling. That's why they need victory. And to transfer forces to they can't go in other directions. They don't have the time and opportunity anymore," he concluded.

In turn, the adviser of the President's Office, Oleksiy Arestovych, said in 

an interview with

 journalist Dmytro Gordon that Bakhmut is not strategically important.

"It is not even operationally important. It has no importance, in fact. That is, it is important only in one way: we set a trap for them, where we burn their last reserves. They can, of course, still collect, but for now," he believes Arestovych.

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