41 days under the rubble at a captured position: Ukrainian Air Assault Forces told a unique story of a paratrooper

5 February, 2024 Vladyslav Molodykh, soldier of the 71st Jaeger Brigade of Ukrainian Air Assault Forces Vladyslav Molodykh, a soldier of the 71st Jaeger Brigade of Ukrainian Air Assault Forces, spent 41 days in a collapsed basement on combat positions. The Public Relations Service of Ukrainian Air Assault Forces Command reported on this case.

The Russian assault attempts were unsuccessful every time. Invaders used grenades, drones, and RPGs. "They were constantly storming us, throwing grenades, and those f@cking drones were everywhere," the paratrooper says about the difficult month of holding his combat position. "One Russian tried to get as close as possible to the basement, I killed him, and he fell right at the entrance.

That's how he burned to death there because of the large number of grenades Russians kept throwing, and drones," the soldier recalls. However, Vladyslav and his wounded comrade Ihor bravely held the line. "For the first three days, I did not sleep, I was constantly on guard at the entrance. Ihor, a fellow soldier, was wounded in the arm and leg, and could not shoot.

Later, after constant hunger, he decided to get out. He wandered around that sector, but our drones found him," Vladyslav recalls. The basement, where the Ukrainian paratrooper's position was located, was constantly covered with garbage and debris from a nearby house that had been destroyed.

Later, after unsuccessful assault attempts, Russians simply covered the basement with garbage. "For some time there was still a small window, from there I could still shoot at Russians. I killed at least six of them.

They were constantly shouting for me to surrender," Vladyslav says. Last two weeks in the basement were the hardest. Dry rations are over.

But most of all, I was thirsty: "I was very thirsty. I drank melted snow. That's how I survived."

After 41 days of underground captivity, Vladyslav's comrades managed to get to the position. He was considered missing for several weeks. "At first, we shouted to the basement through the garbage.

The first thing he asked for was water and a cigarette. He said he was not planning to surrender and was shooting to the last. He is a real man," Ukrainian Air Assault Forces said.

"I waited up," the man laughs, "when they took me away by ambulance, they let me call my mom. She immediately recognized me, crying and screaming. The main thing is to never give up.

You can survive anything."