stopped with his brigade, which was 10 times larger than the enemy detachment and brave, but ivan khetsenko, forgotten today, his only one tank, he maneuvers, that is, people saw this battle. we do not lie, in fact, completely destroyed a column of enemy tanks, a tiger of heavy enemy tanks of one of them koran, but nevertheless, an enemy shell overtook our tank, uh, and it caught fire and it seemed that the germans were moving further and at that moment the tank suddenly, burning our tank was 2. and started to shoot already stood up at the german tigers, knocking out three more tanks, defending kiev in hand-to-hand combat. the commander of the southwestern front, a native of the chernigov province, died. colonel-general mikhail kirponos, in general the stubborn defense of the ukrainian capital broke hitler's plan for a quick assault, and, as the german generals later claimed, became the reason for their subsequent failure near moscow, just like kiev , odessa also received the title of hero city for the defense. this is an example of a successful defensive operation against a general negativ