it was then, in the 14th year , that my brother oleg barna volunteered to fight. instead, stepan became a reservist. it was during the formation of the brigade itself in order to... while still in the status of the head of the regional state administration, i tried to popularize the service in the reserve, already after i left the post of head, i went to a meeting of reservists and there signed the contract of the operational reserve of the first line with the edelweiss brigade, and accordingly, when the war began, a full-scale attack, there was a presidential decree on the mobilization of reservists. well, it was mobilized in his unit, he remembers that he was most worried about how he should fight in winter, because he does not like the cold, being in a position in the middle of winter is the most difficult for a soldier, but the man has been wintering at the front for the second year. in the first days, our brigade was transferred to the border with belarus, and then already in march, at the beginning of march, we were in... in the area of zhytomyr and kyiv r