Mariupol defender breaks down his famous Azovstal photos
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- Опубліковано 5 чер 2024
- Dmytro Kozatskyi, call sign "Orest," is a Ukrainian soldier who formerly headed the press service of the Azov regiment. He was based in Mariupol when Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022, and soon ended up at the last Ukrainian stronghold in the city - the Azovstal steel plant. Thanks to the photographs he took inside the bunkers of the plant, the world was able to witness the horrors in which both soldiers and civilians had to endure almost non-stop Russian bombardment.
In this video, Kozatskyi breaks down his famous photographs and shares his memories about the Russian siege of Mariupol.
00:00 - Meet Dmytro Kozatskyi
00:49 - Beginning of the full-scale invasion. Seige of Mariupol
02:06 - Photo from the makeshift hospital
04:07 - Photo of Azovstal medic Valeria Nava
07:17 - Living in the basement of Azovstal
07:44 - "The light will win"
09:05 - Azov fighters surrender. Russian captivity
09:58 - FreeAzovstal. Defenders in the captivity
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So heart wrenching to listen to this my thoughts and prayers go out to all who were there. Slava Ukraini! 🇺🇦💙💛
Thank you kindly KI,, 🇸🇪💞🇺🇦
Thank you for watching!
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It is painful to witness these again and know the brave defenders are still in russian captivity being treated horribly.
#FreeAzovstalDefenders 🙏🇺🇦
Good Point... we should always remember .🙏
Very very important event in history. Thankfully documented so the rest of us can know how it felt. Those photos are so so valuable to the world. ❤❤💛💙
couldn't agree more. thank you for watching!
I always wondered what has happened to Orest and finally today, watching this interview, I'm releaved and happy to know that he is still alive and kicking. I can see in his eyes all the pain and suffering he've been through. Keep it strong man 💪
thank you for watching!
I thought so too!
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Massive love and support to you amazing Ukrainian people❤
Thanks for telling your story. It means a lot to many millions. God save Ukraine.
Thank you for this interview, I will never forget those photos.
thank you for watching!
Thanks for making this video 😢😢
Most I knew are gone from #2014. We still need to know who's responsible. No matter who it is!
Thank you for sharing...... very important images..... the light will win.💙💛
The Azovstal Defenders are the most courageous heroes of all time -- the represent courage, sacrifice, resilience, and humanity at its very best! I pray that all Ukrainian soldiers and POWs will return home safely to their families soon and get to grow old in a free, independent, victorious and peaceful Ukraine. As an American, I believe that every free citizen in the West owes Ukrainians a huge debt of gratitude for standing up and fighting for all our democratic values. Stay strong and safe, brave defenders of the free world. Thank you for this valuable, truthful and accurate reporting. Slava Ukraini. Slava Azov Heroes. Free Azovstal Defenders
They are Nazi’s 🤡
Heartbreaking. Thanks for publishing.💛💙🇺🇦❤️❤️❤️❤️
Thank you. Not only for fighting for freedom, but for bearing witness.
Thank you ❤
Famous picture is when yall got “evacuated” XD
Thanks!
Thank you for your support.
Beautiful documentary!
I'm glad the photos were published. The world needs to know. I'm sorry these photos had to be taken. But the world needs to know. I look forward to photos of healing and restoration. It will be a mix of grief and joy, but the world needs to see.
Slava Ukraini !!
Sending love
¿Nazi?
Astonishing people. I never thought I would be proud of my homeland
Thank you. Continual praers for all the people of Ukraine. Prayers for the defenders...❤❤❤
Keep up the great work!
Thanks for your support.
A report delivered with unabashed honesty and sincerity. Love the absence of drama and hyperbole. Just the facts tell the truth!
I only listen to Sarah Ashton-Cirillo... everyone else is just white noise ?
Danke!
Danke für Ihre Unterstützung!
SLAVA UKRAINI❤🔥
The heroes of Azovstal made themselves immortal.
Historians will still talk about Azovstal in 300 years
Nobody significant remembers them already lol very wishful thinking to compare them to Spartans. How about ghost of KIEV?
My warmest greetins to all of Azowstaals defenders and their loved ones.
Rest in peace to those who died. My condolences to those who lost a loved one. 🌹💙💛
Thank you for your support!
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They were told many times to surrender but they refused so now why all the crying stuffs ...??
Mariupol is a nice Russian town now. Painted new. Rebuilt. Not as rotten as it was under Kiev's regime.
Crying all the way through this. Tears, tears, tears, 😭
Are you Ukranian?
I am Chinese and feel ashamed that Putin is in Beijing now. Many of us r disgusted 🤮 🤢
May every community in our world be blessed with the presence of a man of profound humility and integrity: Dmytro Kozatskyi, call sign "Orest,"
Peace to Ukraine!
Blessings from the US...the light will win!!!!!
Ah the Azov battalion. The notorious Neo Nazi unit with the Wolves hook as their unit insignia😂😂
Les russes de 2024 sont les nazis de 1940, car ce sont bien les russes qui envahissent l'Ukraine comme Hitler envahissait l'europe entière!!! Facile à comprendre pour un troll payé en rouble.
The matter-of-fact honesty, and sheer goodness of this photographer and those who fought in Azovstal, many of whom are still in captivity, are the reason why Russia won't win. This is something that can't be defeated. There will be both highs and lows, but I still see light at the end of the tunnel.
Those in Azovstal also saw the light at the end of the tunnels, but they were mistaken, they were run over by a Russian train.
It is the same with Ukraine now. It is better for them to realize that the light at the end of the tunnel is not the exit from the tunnel, but the Russian train that is already trampling them.
@@antebratincevic6764 Typical Z-patriot reply. "Just lie down and let the Russians erase Ukrainian culture and people". Even if it is the end, which I don't believe, it's better to go down fighting.
Popularity dous not equal value: wise words
Thank you for this report. I really love your content.
Beautiful video. What a kind and thoughtful chap.
thank you!
#SLAVAUKRAINI STILL sacrificing and fighting for all OUR tomorrows to be safe and free xxxx honour, respect, gratitude and love always xxx #HEROYAMSLAVA Putin does not deserve to breath the same air as this noble, humble, wonderfully typical Ukrainian man xxx
This brave soldier and amazing photographer won't have any difficulty in get a job with big media outlets as a photo journalist.
I'm happy he's alive and doing well. In true the infamous place....the Putin horrible crimes against the Ukranian people....all this is acceptable to say the minimum. I hope the survivors can cope with their PTSD and live their lives in peace in a prosperous Ukranian nation. All the best for you all. The humankind will win the barbaric ones and I still do believe in the humankind because ppl like this Ukranian brave soldier as well as ppl all over the world trying to bring the best of their good hearts. Thank you The kyev independent staff.
The light will win against the Antichrist!
Heroes.❤️ Slava Ukraini.
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Thank you for telling us your story. I really liked you saying it was teamwork!
Thank you for watching this video!
Does anyone actually know what is going on in mariupol? Since the invasion it's like the city has ceased to exist in western media
Been largely rebuilt by Russia. Kid there documents the rebuild. (Videos from Mariupol) on YT.
All those sacrifices could have been avoided if the peace talks back in 2022 had been completed. Ukraine walked out after Boris Johnson's visit.
💛🔱💙 Slava Ukraini! Heroyam Slava! ❤️🖤
It’s sad to see how kids of poor are made to die while kids of rich enjoy their lives .
ammmmmmmm heyyyyyyy, youuu kindaaaaa sooundddd like aaaaaa RUSKI BOT!
I have his book with the photos from Azovstal ❤
His book of lies
From this British Veteran... Absolute Respect, you were Warriors on a par with the 300 Spartans!
Go on Ukrainians!
“The idea of the Ukraine, one of the main national ideas of the Ukraine, is to lie as much as possible to oneself and to others. Because if one tells the truth, everything will collapse, and it would be necessary to invent something else. That’s our fundamental imbalanced contradiction.” - Aleksej Arestovič, some time before 2022.
Therefore we say WAR is ugly. Humanity suffers
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Ukropi su pobjegli kao štakori pod zemlju.
I držali žene i dicu ka taoce da ako ih puste da Rusi nji puste . . . šljam najgori sa Baphometima , Banderama i Hitlerima istetoviranima.
who stole the money ? why were the fortifications not built ? who is responsible for this ?
Stepan Bandera and Biden approves this message
Thanks. I regret that i am unable to do more to help you.
Thank you for your support! Even this comment means the world.
AZOV👊🏼🇺🇦💙💛
The heroes of the free world!
What free world are you talking about? Where is it
Heroes of bandera... Nazy!!
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I'd like to see all of this guy's tatooes :)
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You looking for a Baphomet . . . :)
Gay
Well, you now know his name, his face, maybe you contact him if this is really your fetish? He might like it too. Come check it out
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Heartbroken for all Ukrainian defenders who are still in russian captivity. Amnesty International and the International Red Cross do absolutely nothing to help return POWs back to Ukraine or even visit them to protect them from torture and inhumane conditions of detention. Useless organizations that only collect money and do not fulfill their duties.
Slava!
Ukrainian soldiers are so brave 🇺🇦
They're cowards
Ukraine is making history and Russia is repeating the history many would like to forget. Russia will go further back in history to medieval times, a path they chose themselves.
What?
Stop smoking crack
@@danielborja9109 is a unit of electricity
@oggierock So true 💕
@@oggierockUkraine winning in Medias but they aren't doing good at the moment on the frontline. It's downhill after the initial counter-offensive success.
They literally surrendered, how is that iron resistance? There Chechens were able to drive Russian into a 2nd war before they ultimately surrendered as well
Merci !
Merci beaucoup pour votre soutien!
What Ukraine?
😔 sorry
by sitting undergound while being bombarded for 3 months is a last stand???lmfaoooo
🔱HEROYAM🇺🇦SLAVA🔱
Странно, что против лопат сложно противостоять..
The ruSSians were not yet reduced to that level at that point in time.
Give it 3 days
@@bigolboomerbelly4348 No ill wait for next spring 😁
Iron resistance? They were holed up like rats being shielded by women and children. 🙄🙄
You shouldn't poke the bear
That bear invaded a Sovereign independent country and they signed an international memorandum to respect Ukraine. ruSSia has comotted atrocities on a daily basis. Who would support such a f@scist state?
Маріуполь це російське місто і залишиться з Росією
Long over due! ❤
I will never forget the heroes of Azovstal. What a beautiful and humble person this heroe is!
Thank you for watching!
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well, nazi azov lost, fortunately. eastern ukraine returns home. Not clear to me why people support nazism against Russians again.
The regime that much more similar to theNazis are your own regime. Killing women and children, filtration camps, killing or imprisoning those that the regime doesnt like. I pity you for reprating Stalin times of war and killing, when your country is rich with natural resources if you didnt have that nazistic and mafialike regime. Please use your time and resspurces to make Russia a god place to live, instead of attacking other countries with your hybrid warfare.
Stop spreading propoganda.....i saw mariupol is transform completely and look like a tourist destination....good work Russia.
Ah yes, the Russian troll propaganda😂
Obvious troll, but just saying that even if Russia rebuilt it and it looks beautiful right now doesn’t negate the fact that Russia is the one who leveled it to begin with.
La russie a détruit Marioupol comme elle va détruire Karkhiv.
Honte au peuple russe de soutenir cette invasion et ce massacre du peuple ukrainien.
Gloire à l'Ukraine et à ses héros💛💙💛💙
Who destroyed the city? Why has it to be rebuild? No one living there asked for all of this. Shame on Russia.
Mariupol has fallen, hasn't it? Iron resistance only exists in photo, I guess.
And on Yotube as well . . . :)
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can we see those tattoos in your body? if there is some swastikas or waffen SS symbols
He had a lot of pictures on his twitter account with 1488 on his clothes and drawing swastika on his food. He deleted everything after he got into focus of western media. That was before their surrender in Azovstal.
they gave up like cowards
Iron propaganda
davai, slava ukraine et gloire aux héros.💛💙💛💙
Don't you show your nazis tattoo?
Dying for someone else's interests is stupid!
Slava ukraini
Where is that guys with amputations now?
Funny guy . . . he went to war and he is talking about bombs and hard life . . . :)
Better hide the tattos
How could all this suffering be prevented? Here in western Europe we don't 1. have an issue with Ukraine joining NATO and 2. the Azov regiment. Zelenskyy rightfully had put sanctions on Putin and his cronies so we see this conflict as a war of conquest.
Ukraine, according to the constitution, did not have the right to join any military bloc, but with this condition it left the USSR, it violated the treaty, welcome back.
@@OniksR There has never been agreements for Ukraine not joining NATO or the EU. Here in Europe we consider this conflict a breach of international law. Putin completely screwed his country up and in return is waging these brutal wars of conquest.
Victoria Nuland said FEU . . . so you know that you are f . . . . . :)
you lost, and only an idiot would allow himself to be captured