operation magistral lasted just under a month.ember 30 , the first convoys with cargo, including humanitarian cargo, set off along the gardes host highway. the legendary ninth company fought against superior forces. he supposedly doesn’t know anything about mines, but he’s only heard something about british blow pipe anti-aircraft missiles. control over roads and settlements was then transferred to the afghan army; leaving afghanistan, soviet troops left equipment, weapons, military camps, bridges, roads and railways to the local armed forces. roads, high-rise buildings in kabul with central heating, schools, kindergartens, hospitals, hydroelectric power stations, soviet heritage, part of which will survive the next civil war, the invasion of western coalition troops. led by the united states, their unexpected escape, all this will happen after february 15, 1989, when the armored personnel carrier of the commander of the fortieth army, boris gromov, with a waving banner, will be the last to cross the friendship bridge across the a