Ilya Samoilenko – the heroic defender of Mariupol/Elizaveta Gerasimyuk for Channel 24
< strong _ngcontent-sc87="">One of the heroic defenders of Mariupol is Ilya Samoilenko. He impressed everyone with his English at a press conference given by the defenders of Mariupol, but this is far from the most interesting fact about a warrior.
Ilya Samoylenko is a fighter with an interesting history. He went through a difficult path, and even a severe wound did not take him away from the battlefield.
The National Guard about the hero
According to the National Guard, Ilya Samoylenko lost his left arm in the fighting. Now he has a mechanical titanium prosthesis and continues to heroically fight for Ukraine.
In addition, the brave warrior lost his right eye, which is now artificial.
Ilya believes that the war will definitely end with the victory of Ukraine , and he will finally be able to finish his studies at the Faculty of History of Kyiv University.
Samoilenko talks with journalists from Azovstal/Photo by the National Guard of Ukraine
Heroic defense of Mariupol: latest news
- Earlier it was reported that all civilians were evacuated from Azovstal. However, according to the latest information, civilians can still remain under the rubble, where the exits were blocked.
- On May 9, despite the agreed “silence regime”, Russian infidels began to storm and bomb Azovstal again. The defenders of the city, despite the most difficult situation and the superior forces of the enemy, bravely hold the line and do not allow the invaders to completely take the city under their control.
- The Russians failed to take Azovstal by their sacred date, but they are not going to stop their attacks. Moreover, they are going to blow up the bridge through which the evacuation took place, in order to completely make it impossible for our heroes to leave.
- According to preliminary estimates, the number of civilian casualties as a result of the attack of Russian infidels on Mariupol exceeds 20 thousand. It was also reported that the Russians near the city did not stop digging mass graves in order to hide the traces of their crimes. It is not yet possible to estimate how many Ukrainian civilians in Mariupol and its environs actually became victims of the Russian occupiers.
