olga kachura, colonel of the dpr people's militia, she has been fighting since 2014 .he heroes of the great patriotic war well from history textbooks, everyone knows them, but we don’t know much about those who are now performing the same feats, sometimes at the cost of their own lives, so that the memory of the people preserves their names. on defender of the fatherland day, a radio satellite launches a video chronicle of our heroes. about how the russian army has changed about those who today are called defenders of the fatherland, we will talk with our regular expert, historian, political scientist, rastislav ishchenko. rastislav, good afternoon, good afternoon. rastislav, indeed, probably the most interesting and important thing is the understanding of how the russian army has changed during the special war. in the course of real combat operations it will be useful or not useful, real combat operations are a test of this experience, the army has passed the test of this experience, yes, in 2 years of combat operations it has seen the shortcomings of its preparation