-Well Moshchun is a small village a bit north of Kyiv.
Situated on the bank of the river Irpin.
It's just a small village.
But, what can I say?
It was important for them to took it.
And that means that it was important for us to defend it.
You can see the fighting here was very, actually, intense.
But we won.
And they retreated.
Ooh, look at that.
That's the backpack of Russian soldier.
Former, looks like former Russian soldier of course.
Here, you can see it.
Ooh!
He forgot his ammo when he was running.
And the scissors.
Well, that's not very useful.
Whoa, he was a machine gunner!
Yes, he was a machine gunner.
You see, I'm just looking for something useful.
Because that's how war works.
That's useful.
You see, the forest over there,
the forest is actually the bank of the river Irpin.
The backside of forest is river
and the bank of that river over there is Russians.
So, it's like, the closest to the front line.
[dogs barking]
[speaking Ukrainian over radio]
That's the Russian RPG. [speaks Russian]
You see, it's Russian colored.
We have fully green and actually it's new.
We don't have such things.
-So that's Russian written on it?
-Yeah, that's Russian.
And I guess, that he was fired.
And, uh, I can show you the guys who did it.
They are over there.
We fight for every inch of our territory.
Every village is important.
Every city is important.
Because every fight that continues destroys
Russian soldiers and Russian armors and Russian tanks.
And every fight every Russian soldier that dies here,
it's a huge problem for Russia and Russian propaganda.
-I wasn't that willing to fight, but the circumstances forced me
me to take up arms and go to war.
When you see murdered civilians here, you start feeling
hatred towards Russians.
It's the first time I have this feeling, it's both disgust
and hate for them being here all mixed together.
I can't describe it in one word.
Being at war is like running around playing war as a kid,
but it's a bit more real here.
My daughter and her mother went to Portugal.
My mom stayed in Kyiv, and my girlfriend is in the Sumy
region, at her mother's.
My daughter is a smart girl.
When there's network, yes, we call often and we text,
with smiles and kisses.
We used to communicate and express our love for one another
much less.
I have my birthday soon, so I promised my mom and my
girlfriend, that the wear would end on my birthday and I'd bring
them matryoshka dolls from Red Square.
So I think the end is near.
I'd like fewer people to get killed, even fewer Russians who
just repulse me at the moment.
-I don't believe in any negotiations with Russia ever.
I saw this war from 2014.
I know that no one can trust Russians, never.
The only language that Russian understands
is a language of force.
It's terrible to understand that those people whose families
who lived, you can see the parts of their lifes they have there.
They are lying on the ground.
The child's bicycles, some toys, books.
You can understand that you are walking through the lives of
people who never expected the war, but still the war just
destroyed everything.
We had a dream that when we will be victorious and all the war
will end that we will create a building company,
and we will rebuild everything.
But, that's like a small dream of Ukrainian soldier,
to go back, for example to Moshchun.
And to build some houses there.
That, I think that will be great.