Vladlen Tatarsky is military reporter from the Donbass. In 2014 he joined the People’s Militia in Gorlovka, served in the Vityaz regiment of the LPR. Today Vladlen Tatarsky is back on the front line, as a special military correspondent.
In his video report on July 6, he described the AFU shelling on civilians which resulted in deaths of three children, the operational pause on the front lines and gave important comments on several mistakes of the Russian military in Eastern Ukraine as well as in the Russian border regions:
“Hello everyone!
And again, I start the video by reporting that children have died. This time they died in Makeyevka. Two children (later the number grew up to three killed), three injured, adults injured. It happened literally three bus stops from my house. My relatives live there in this yard and these are all familiar places to me and it’s a double pain when it happens at your home.
Guys, let’s face it, these are not the last children who died, because there will be careless parents who will let their children go at such a difficult time. Don’t be careless parents!
It’s summer now, the children want to go for a walk, but take them away, it’s not safe everywhere now, but at least take them where enemy artillery could not reach them. They are now hitting all over the territory of the Republic: with Tochka-U missiles, with “Hurricanes”, anyway their artillery hits. Girls are dying, one died yesterday, children died today, so don’t be careless. The Bible reads: “The wise sees trouble and hides, the stupid goes ahead and is punished,” be wise!
The shelling does not stop. This morning I literally missed one, came under fire, I was nearby at Furmanovo, something flew there, something was burning, then the air defense worked.
In general, the shelling is going on in Donetsk and it will increase, it will continue, because the AFU has moved to massive terror and the killing of civilians. In Makeyevka, where children died today, there is nothing even remotely similar to military facilities where our batteries, warehouses with military equipment can hide.
I would like to note that the situation at the front has not changed and this is once again confirmation of my forecast of an operational pause.
In general, military operations are possible here only due to the fact that there are bridges. I am told a lot of nonsense, including people who once were pilots, but never bombed bridges, that this is impossible. No, it’s possible! I know for sure that aviation, it does not just fly and drop bombs on “Gypsies”, it has to break through the air defenses, strike and defeat bridges, this is an obvious complication of logistics. There are dams where supplies can be carried out, but damage to some minor bridge, even across a small river, already complicates logistics in the area. A destroyed bridge, even one, it greatly complicates all logistics.
I’ve been talking about this for a long time, but it’s not happening, and the stupidest thing I’ve heard from our troops is: “we don’t want to destroy bridges, because this is infrastructure, this is a special military operation, not a war.” This is the first point of view.
The second point of view is no less stupid: “we will lure the troops here and kill everyone here.” This is just nonsense! And if these troops kill you, and if these troops kill your children when the projectile arrives? This is not a logical explanation, absolutely, especially since we cannot destroy all the troops here, how can all the Ukrainian men move here, we kill them all, and there is no one there and we just go in? This is a topic that is already boring.
Next, about the border guards. Border guards who are on the border with the Bryansk and Belgorod regions, they do not receive the status of a participant in hostilities. The border guards behave passively, maybe because they do not receive the status of a combatant, maybe they do not have an order, but today again the news is: they were ambushed in Belgorod, shot… How?
I do not understand what you are waiting for. The enemy is standing there, it’s not a peacetime, you have to fight, they pay you money or not. In the militia for several years, they paid the minimum wage on which it people could live and there were those who served in intelligence, went behind the front line, for example, battalion “Khan”, all the militia. There were a lot of people who just sat back and said that it was not necessary to shoot so that they would not hit us, but there were also those who took the initiative. Be proactive, kill enemies! Of course, this should be systemic in nature, it should not be two or three enthusiasts, it should be initiative groups that can enter the territory of Ukraine, can kill the enemy on the territory of Ukraine.
What are we afraid of? Unleashing the hot stage there? So it’s already coming! The tactics of patience only leads to the fact that you are beaten more. We need to be the first to destroy the enemy, we have to kill, we have to ambush, we have to bomb from the “copters”. I think that we have a few border guards who know how to bomb from “copters”. And something needs to be changed. We don’t have our own Bayraktars or they are in a minimal amount that are not able to fulfill the requests of the front, then you can take a Phantom that takes two bombs at once. “Mavik” takes one bomb. It is necessary to destroy the enemy, it is necessary to fight with the weapons that are available at the moment.
Therefore, I wanted to say today about the border, about maximum caution in Donetsk and Makeyevka. I was on the road all day solving issues, there was no time to go online, and in the evening here are some “surprises”: the death of children, an ambush on border guards.
Therefore, guys, we will definitely win, we will definitely unite our society, we will definitely etch with a hot iron those who in Russia say that this war is not necessary, this is nonsense! Those who say so are accomplices of those who killed children today, be aware of this.
If the state is going to forgive those who say so, then it is quite possible that serious and irreversible consequences await us. Therefore, of course, we need to consolidate, we need to fight together, we need to do something together to win, everyone in their place should do something for the victory.
And in general, the ‘Russian idea’ is war, we always unite around war. Today we talked with the wonderful person, our brother, dear brother Alexander from Stavropol. Hello to him if he watches and we talked about the Russians uniting around the war. This man is an ordinary guy from Stavropol, a businessman, he collected a necessary humanitarian cargo from himself. I applied to many and many refused, but he just picked it up and collected it, personally brought it, handed it over, thank you very much. I wouldn’t have met him him if it wasn’t for the war. And Russian people, equally-minded, unite and probably someone is afraid of this. And when we unite, the enemy will definitely be defeated, victory will definitely be ours! All bright and clear to everyone!”
