Peak hour №1 23.02.1995 (1995)

The guest in the studio is Captain of the Russian Army Dmitry Avanesov, who talks about Defender of the Fatherland Day as a holiday for all military personnel, talks about his injury, talks about the losses of his battalion, about his fallen comrades and the impressions of their deaths, about being sent to Chechnya for now, about the combat mission assigned on the spot, about the actions of his unit in combat, about the battles in Grozny, about the differences in military service in the USSR and in modern Russia, about the need for a military man to carry out an order, about the staffing of the regiment before the start of hostilities and the level of its combat training, about insufficient skills for this kind of combat operations, about the feeling of camaraderie during a combat operation, evaluates the level of training of Chechen units from a professional point of view, about the difficulties of storming Grozny due to the lack of necessary experience, about the army gaining the appropriate combat experience during the war in Chechnya, about his attitude towards the Chechens, about his psychological state during the hostilities, expresses his thoughts on the option of a peaceful settlement of the conflict, about the influence of events in Chechnya on the desire of young people to join the army, on the decline in the prestige of the military profession and the need to solve this problem, on compensation payments to servicemen for injuries, on a professional army and the conditions necessary for its creation, on the recruitment of contract soldiers into the army, answers calls from TV viewers about their feelings after shooting to kill at the enemy during military operations, on possible cases of looting by the local population and mistakes in sending the bodies of dead soldiers to their families (synchronously).

Profile: photos by D. Avanesov.