If the Russians had managed to land and capture the airfield in Gostomel, Kiev would have been taken, said Kirill Budanov, head of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, in Dmitry Komarov's documentary "

However, the Ukrainian military, who, according to the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valery Zaluzhny, learned to fight in eight years, did not allow the Russians to land their planes..

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“Everything was mined, barricaded by vehicles, plus the entire take-off was flooded with oil,” Defense Minister Alexei Reznikov said..

The Commander of the Land Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Syrsky called the fourth and fifth days of full-scale aggression, when the enemy seized a bridgehead in the area of \u200b\u200bMoshchun, the most critical.

" The smallest distance directly to Kyiv, which provided passage to Shevchenko Square and the entrance to the city. The situation was getting really critical.. All measures were taken, we worked for almost a day at the command and observation post of the battalion. All the reserves that we had at that time were put forward. At the cost of incredible efforts, the situation was reversed. The situation changed in our favor, and the enemy could not break through,” Syrsky said..