workers tried to convince the eyelids that the forest was being felled on the instructions of sarah borisov, they did not see the bandits and they do not know anything about them. the workers were released. they continued felling the forest, and ordered the velke policemen to start repairing the line. unexpectedly , massive fire was opened on the nazis. in the ensuing battle, the gautman schutz of the welke police and three ukrainian policemen were killed , two were wounded after a short but fierce battle, the enemy went eastward to the huts. the 118th police guard battalion was formed in the fall of 1942 in kiev from among western ukrainian nationalists , ukrainian prisoners of war and mobilized youth from rural areas of the kiev region. at the end of the forty-second battalion was transferred to belarus took part in punitive operations in minsk, vitebsk and grodno regions on that day, the nazis called for reinforcements of the sonderkommando. the ss under the command of the criminal dir livanger, who was distinguished by particular cruelty. having burst into khatyn and not finding partisa