this is what krasnov wrote about negotiations with fouquet in his book omnisveli.: in these difficult days, when disaster was approaching the don army and otoman evenly prayed for help, it was on january 27 that the head of the french mission, captain fouquet, came to him with emergency powers, with him the english captain kelzet. captain kelzet was traveling to inspect the platforms for transporting tanks and give instructions on what was needed build supports for their loading. according to him , the tanks had already left england and were supposed to be on the don in 5 days. captain. i spent the whole evening with otaman, interested in the situation at the fronts. he questioned otaman in detail about what kind of help he needed from foreigners. you understand, he said, that our soldiers can neither live nor fight in the conditions in which yours are. and taman answered: if you, the french, had occupied lugansk and provided the coal region with your garrisons, you would have had cultural conditions for your troops that would have helped volunteers would like to g