andriy malakhov, a special forces officer. he claims that deception was the key to success.my main maneuver was a decoy attack in the south of balaklia , while the main offensive took place from the west, our intelligence spread the information that the attack would be carried out from this east, a lot of troops were sent, on the first day we killed about 200 russians and blocked their counteroffensive several attacks, they remembered it for a long time, according to the offensive tactics, those who carry out the attack must be three times more numerous than those who hold the defense, and there were more or less of us to continue moving forward . rssb we received the plans , we were shocked. i had such mixed feelings, i understood that they didn't take it from the air. despite this, i felt that, in principle, the plan was real to implement, but he was such a bold plan and i came to my people and joked like that, rather half-jokingly, i say, we take it at his word, now they can't wait for the next stage of the offensive