all major points of opposition must be eliminated.” On this day, the enemy attacked the restored post of the militia in the Yampol district with one tank, five APCs and five Ural infantry. During the battle, the militia were pushed back into the forest. After this, the Ukrainians moved more than twenty tanks from the north to the south bank of the North Donets through the built pontoon bridge. During the days, the enemy continued to build up forces at Ilyichovka and Kriva Luka. The Ukrainians expelled the population from their own homes, and in the very village they concentrated a few BMD, APCs and a large number of infantry. In the area of Ilyichovka, tanks and artillery reached. Here formed a shock flu, aimed at Slavyansk and Lisichansk. Around the very Sla, the enemy began to miniaturize the fields with anti-personnel weapons by us OZM-72.