The border guard from Chongar said that they were handed over on the first day of the invasion

The border guards reported to the superiors about the military activity of the enemy in the Crimea, but they assured that “everything is fine, it's their training, nothing so terrible.”

Ukrainian border guard Oleksiy Ruzhynenko, who served at the Chongar checkpoint on the administrative border with occupied Crimea, spoke about the beginning of a full-scale war. He explained why the enemy succeeded in blitzkrieg in the south.

The border guard told about this in an interview with “Crimea Realities”.

On the night of February 24, 2022, Ruzhynenko was on duty at the Chongar checkpoint in the Kherson region. He witnessed the first minutes of a full-scale war. I saw convoys of Russian military equipment entering from Crimea. On the day of the full-scale invasion, Ruzhinenko was captured.

The border guard noticed the first signs of invasion on February 23.

“Somewhere in the afternoon, people were already arriving, that is, they were going to Ukraine from the territory of Crimea, and…