this and also about western and soviet tactics with a ukrainian officer a graduate of the command and staff collegee us army, pavel palysa, the commander of the 93rd separate mechanized brigade that defended bakhmut at the height of the battles for the city since february of this year , after graduating from the lviv academy of ground forces, you then studied at the american command and staff complex , how did it turn out how did you get there i served as the head of the operational department of the 58th brigade, and one of my colleagues received a telegram containing a list of courses with requirements to the candidates and so on. well, i didn't really take it seriously and there. well, write me down. write me down there somewhere and i was actually very surprised. it was, well, probably some element of luck or something. that's how i know that you met a full-scale war there in the states , can you remember that day, that morning, what were you doing, how did you find out that a full-scale war had started, yes, i can, and i will certainly not forget this day, but on february 23, in the well of ei