my name is denis, i'm 30 years old, i 'm a military man, he defended odesa that day, captain denis didechuknow the chief of staff of the 21st division of the brigade that holds the lyman direction, and at that time the senior lieutenant commanded the jet artillery platoon of the 28th brigade. at our unit the task was set namely to cover the coast, where there could be... a probable landing of the amphibious assault, we were on duty there, er , our first battle was completely atypical for artillery, due to the fact that our first targets were ships. at the beginning of the full-scale invasion, the russians did not come, who were going to capture odessa from the sea, the city was setting up mine barriers, preparing for defense. there are only a few areas on the odesa coast where landing is possible , a platoon was located on one of them. i remember the morning of march 21 the next report to me is that guests are sailing to us, i just made myself some coffee , i go to the shore, look and start counting, i counted eight ships that were moving in our direction, and you drink coffee, drink ka, we