Volunteered at 69: Volodymyr Butenko's story

The video features an interview with Volodymyr Butenko, a retired lieutenant colonel and journalist at the Khmelnytsky Regional TV and Radio Company.

In 2022, at the age of sixty-nine, Volodymyr became a volunteer in the Armed Forces of Ukraine. He is a third-generation officer. After the start of the full-scale invasion, he learned about the need for artillery training and joined the Twenty-third Separate Special Forces Battalion under the Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky Presidential Brigade. His son, grandson, and son-in-law also serve there.

In November 2022, he and his battalion took up combat positions in Bakhmut, Chasiv Yar, and Druzhkivka. In two years, Volodymyr Butenko trained 180 artillerymen.