not long before that, Cap, commandant of the Semyonov garrison, appointed me commander of the rapid reaction grupa. It then served many later famous heroes of this war - Noil, Viking, Botzman. A group of Bears got into a brawl, we in a group of 27 people went to strengthen and faced the Alpha. The power ratio is roughly one to three, not in our favor. We beat them tactically: our unexpected movements along the line of fiery soprikos - innovations made them believe that we are superior to them many times. And they went away with more losses. It was our little Borodino: we won the fight, but in the end, both we and the enemies retreated to their positions. The witness of this battle from the Ukrainian side is a certain Lieutenant Colonel T., commander of the sniper group of the Alpha unit, who was not in that battle. Here is what he said later in an interview with a Ukrainian website: Unfortunately, the planning of what then turned into the battle on May 5 and the conduct of the fight itself did not become a model of the military wisely - "the individual leaders of the ATO." Alas, the most favorable time for conducting anti-terror activities in Slavyansk immediately after the capture was missed. But, look