guards tank brigade of colonel blygin.icle was hit, its crew was wounded, and the commander of the vehicle, captain pavel korovnikov , had his leg torn off; the following tank, junior lieutenant frolikov, jumped straight onto the enemy battery and destroyed it. without slowing down, the combat vehicle continued to move forward, destroying the german self-propelled gun ferdinand and an anti-tank gun. soon the famous phrase was heard on the radio: “i i am in frolikov." on the north-eastern outskirts of minsk, the defensive positions are not completely occupied by the enemy. i continue to carry out the combat mission. general burdeyny gave the order to begin the assault. combat vehicles burst into minsk behind frolikov's tank. having destroyed the enemy group near the town of ostroshit, from the north units of the third guards kotelnikovsky tank corps under major general vovchenko also moved to minsk. soon, the advanced units of the fifth guards tank corps reached the northern outskirts of minsk. army of marshal rotnistrov. t