About this "Observer" told the commander of 503 separate battalion of marines Vadim Sukharevsky with the call sign "Badger", who commanded the brigade.

"There were cases last year. We have a position that is as close as possible to enemy positions - just 60 meters. And in the fog of their DRG zaprygivala. We wounded three, one was killed. After that, we were no longer climbing. And there was a case for which six of my guys received awards:

one - the Order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky, the rest - the Order "For Courage" (two of them - posthumously), "said Sukharevsky.

According to him, during the counter-offensive, the soldiers jumped into the trenches of the enemy and entered virtually a hand-to-hand fight.

"As a result, 9 people were killed and 16 wounded. And they repulsed two tank attacks (close to the tank went 200 meters) and flank attacks from the BMP. So the four marines at the top fought. Because the two are still on the way, they were killed by a burst of machine guns, "he said..