Ukrainian → English transcript

I was surrounded for sixty-two days, the enemy was already five kilometers ahead, we made a plan and managed to get out.

We discussed it among ourselves, that we would die here anyway, we could at least try to make an attempt.

And it turned out that the enemy did not know we were there, we had a secret position.

And when we were walking as a group, they thought it was their own guys.

And while they were there blah-blah-blah with each other, we had already run past.

I was in the most intense hotspots of the war.

You come out here from the position like this, and you just do not know what to do with yourself.

You start feeling so sad, scared, kind of like you are not needed by anyone.

You do not want to call anyone, do not want to talk, not even with your family.

I had not seen my feet for sixty days, I do not know what is going on with them.

In those same socks all winter.

No, these are clean, I put on clean, dry socks right up to the horn, so my feet would not suffer.

I put them on in the dark, I will show you, I had not seen my feet.

The sock is clean.

She’s no landlubber, seriously. In the kitchen she climbs trees, such a wild one.

Since I trust my commander, I trust him, my commander,

if he doesn’t rotate me out, it means that’s how it has to be.

It’s not a strain for me to stay there.

I understand that as long as I’m holding on, it’s better I stay than for some inexperienced guy to come

and give up the position, and then they’ll move the whole line because of that.

I’ve been at this position longer, I already control everything here.

This is my territory, I can tell by the sound where something is going, whose drone it is.

I control everything, and it’s better for me to be here than to have some newbie show up now,

do something wrong, and the enemy will pinpoint them, they’re not idiots either.

And when I was coming here, I was listening all the time,

getting in touch with them and telling them what’s what.

I want to hug my daughter, that’s what I survived for.

That is my goal.

And if a person has a goal, you cannot defeat them.

Out there on the positions, one hundred meters, it's so far that we practically do not move.

One hundred meters, that's very, very far.

If they drop a package one hundred meters away, no one will ever go to get it.

Ten meters, that's also far.