Today I will say something I never said before and that I will never say it again.

If the GS had no reserves and the opportunity to break through the ring of encirclement near Ilovaisky, there was only one possibility to get our battalions out of the encirclement - along a certain "corridor". Naturally, no one on the other side (in this case on the side of the Russian aggressor) will not let the armed people leave the encirclement! The price of that weapon, in fact, two kopecks and it, in the end, our still lost, but, armed people - representatives of the opposing side, I repeat, none of the real military will not miss! Never! Only if the latter lay down their arms and raise their hands up! - And this is true only for professional military, not hired dogs, "L / DNR", who shot my seriously wounded twin "Fyodor" in Karlovka!.

There was no "green corridor" for the passage of the armed columns of the Ukrainian military! There were no agreements on this with the enemy. "Green Corridor" if it was, then, only for unarmed and demoralized Ukrainian soldiers, which, in fact, among ours was not found.

Our went with weapons! Let's go to the breakthrough! But they went COLONEL and on the "agreed" with the enemy route! We went with small arms against the entrenched tanks!.

Bloodless, the way out of the environment could only be in two cases:.

When an organized column leaves without a weapon (which is not a fact in our case, for it did not give any guarantees from someone "not there") and in direct negotiations by the commanders of the parties there, on the spot, after confirming the "good" from the GSh.

With the direct involvement of international organizations and international media, which would physically (from all sides) accompany the columns with military escapes from the encirclement.

Ilovaysk in August 2014 is a fatal sequence of tactical and strategic mistakes of a poorly trained Ukrainian army from the Chief of the General Staff, to the last soldier.

Dmitry Babkin Platoon Commander in the tank battalion of the rapid reaction brigade of the National Guard of Ukraine Observer.