it was then, in the 14th year , that his brother, oleg barna, volunteered to fight, while stepan instead became a reservist. it was during the formation of the brigade itself so that, while still in the status of the head of the regional state administration, i tried to popularize the service in the reserve. and after he left the post of chairman, he went to a meeting of reservists and there signed the contract of the operational reserve of the first line with the edelweiss brigade. and accordingly. but when the war began, a full-scale attack, there was a presidential decree on the mobilization of reservists, well, he was mobilized in his unit, he remembers, he was most worried about how he should fight in winter, because he does not like the cold, being in a position in the middle of winter is the most difficult for a soldier, but the man has been wintering at the front for the second year. for the first... days, our brigade was transferred to the border with belarus, and then already in march, at the beginning of march, we were in the area of zhytomyr and kyiv regions, that is, i met