in kozyatyn.hen we were in vinnytsia for three or four weeks. we were training at the training grounds . a year, if a lot of time had already passed, many things had already been forgotten, and on april 24th, at three o'clock in the morning, we were raised on the alarm and the battalion went to the combat zone in sloviansk ot, and we were there until april 26th, when we got to the front line, where the our first battle, the so-called combat baptism, was shelling from mortars, a mine went off, the guys fired, they saw the equipment moving in our direction. it was two grenade launchers, an assistant of a citizen, two young guys, and they fired two shots. well, the answer came, a mine flew and instantly we lost before dinner . days, as they always say , the most losses are in the first days, because people we are not, well, not fired upon, one thing is that we came from a peaceful life where everything is quiet and here the soviets are shelling from machine mortars, of course, and the first casualtie