My first fight.
What will be discussed below happened quite a long time ago, so we can talk about these events in detail.
I received my baptism of fire as part of an assault group as a rifleman - assistant grenade thrower, two weeks of intensive training after arriving in the combat zone.
On October 30, during the day, our group (16 people) was told that we were going on a mission at night. Initially, it was set up like this: in the Glushkovsky district, they seized an old checkpoint where the Ukrainian border guards had dug into the ground, broke into the Sumy region, gained a foothold there in the forest plantations and waited for the company of saboteurs, so they could kill the hell out of there. In short, we were sent to create a sort of "sanitary zone" near the border. Then the first thought flashed through my mind: "You're in trouble, idiot." Any missions like "break and hold" are almost always a meat grinder, sometimes such that the loss of half your friends seems like a victory for the survivor. Not bad for a first experience, right?
Fortunately (as it seemed at the time), when we already reached Glushkovo to the company commander's fortification, the mission changed: now we only had to evacuate the village of Novi Pot (three rotten huts, almost abandoned before the war) and thus complete the liberation of Glushkovsky district.
No, so it quickly became clear that we were still in deep trouble, but on paper it was beautiful. "There are three people there, it seems they forgot to evacuate them, their radios are dead, and most likely all of them are injured," they said. In short, it is usually a humanitarian mission, to save some lost people from suffering. Uh-huh, yes.
That's what they always say. Always "in and out, a 20 minute adventure." " The motives are clear in principle: if you say to the group: "Damn it, guys, there's a reinforced platoon sitting there", then there is a high chance that the answer will be: "Come on, comrade captain... ".
oh well No sooner than done. wayfarer.
At the moment of the appointment, it became clear how much modern warfare, with its fixed eyes in the air, thermal imaging and night vision, resembles a game of hide and seek. The hardest part is getting there.