"30 people held two kilometers of the front": Ivan Bilyk quit his job abroad to go to the front

Now the defender is the squad leader in the mechanized battalion of the 24th brigade named after. King Daniel. In civilian life, /1
Ivan had a small company and lived between Poland and Sweden. In 2014, having quit his job, the man joined the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

The defender fought in almost all points of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions.
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However, a year later he was demobilized and went abroad. A full-scale invasion forced him to return to his homeland again.

With his brothers, Ivan Bilyk ended up in Popasna, where difficult battles went on for several months. In one of the battles,
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the Defender was crushed by a piece of the wall, after which he spent several months in the hospital.

Soon he returned to his brothers, who were already in the Kherson region. During this period, the counteroffensive in the Kharkiv region was just continuing.
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Ivan recalls that at that time the enemy concentrated huge forces on the positions of the South, expecting an offensive.

“Remember the period when our media said that the first mass strike would be in the Kherson region? The Russians believed it. Therefore,
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they did not expect us in the Kharkiv region. The enemy began to transfer troops, and then the same blow was in the Kherson region,” he says.

During the counteroffensive, Ivan participated in the liberation of settlements in the Kherson region.
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Despite the enemy's advantage in weapons and men, the fighters could hold fairly large sections of the front.

“In the amount of thirty people, we held two kilometers of the front. It’s hard for such a number, but we succeeded.
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There is a desire to hit the Russians in the teeth so that they roll back to their steppes and don’t poke their nose at us,” Bilyk said.
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