[烛光生存狂]-俄罗斯第58集团军最初的战斗

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by Irina Kuksenkova, MK

Day One (August 8th)

Friday night (8th) everyone was sitting on the floor of peacekeepers HQ. Soldiers and officers are along the walls. I am under the door of general Kulahmetov. After each explosion the ears are deaf. Arty fire is very heavy. Nervousness in HQ situation room. Orders are shouted alongside heavy swearing.

- All personnel in barracks into the shelter now, to arms! - Shouts HQ

- get a vest and helmet for the journalist lady!

I am getting a bulletproof vest, smelling with heavy body odor, can't save from the bullet but against Grad (MRLS BM-21) or mortar shell its ok.

Shelling stopped a bit. - They are reloading - comments one officer. - We have to hold until morning, ads another. Where the hell is our air support? - Ads the third.

With eyes full of despair battalion dog Betty runs into the HQ and finds a spot among the peacekeepers. She always feels when the most intensive shellings are about to happen - comment the soldiers.

There are 1700 peacekeepers here. Too few for the whole safety zone. They are on guard duty for 24 hours, and sleep for just 3 hours.

- we need more men -says general Kulahmetov - You can see that we are short of men.

The most astonishing is that after this monstrous shelling of a city official Tbilisi (that’s Georgia) calls the action - "retaliation for South-Osetian provocation and Russian aggression"

Shelling re-starts. We are standing near the HQ entrance, A shell hits nearby. The peacekeepers commander and his HQ remove dust and debris from their uniform and go off to continue commencing the war. Extremely calm people they are.

By 6 am Georgian forces repeat the shelling. Grad (MRLS BM-21) start hitting our position. We are getting first wounded by fragments. We are getting shot like targets at the range. Peacekeepers have no right to return fire. A one basket game.

By 8 am the city of Tshkinvali was in flames and ruins. Houses destroyed, windows blown away. The presidential administration, MOD, parliament, university, hospital, school #3 buildings are destroyed by direct hits. Every second residential house is destroyed. The city is no more - just like Stalingrad. Communications are down. The cellular masts around the city are hit. Just before the mass attack organized caravans of women, children and elders left the town. Those remaining in town are hiding in the cellars, yet a lot of people just did not have time to find cover.

Where is Moscow? We are getting butchered here, where the hell is our air force? - By morning it’s an ongoing talk among the officers.

Suddenly a SU fighter jet turbine noise is heard in the distance. Hurrah! - The air force is here! Only after the fighters drop bombs on the town, everyone understands that those were Georgian fighters. Running from cover to cover we reach the mess hall. War is war, but breakfast is on schedule - puts the intendant.

If anything duck! May get hit by burst wave, anyway - bon appetite!

By 9 am info arrives that Georgians captured 2 South-Osetian villages and about to invade Tskhinvali. Which means that they are moving towards us. We also receive info that from Vladikavkkaz (Russian capital of North-Osetia) elements of the 58th Russian army are on the move to help us.

The shelling continues. 10 am the HQ is hit by Grad MRLS salvo. In a blitz of a second all windows and doors are blown away. We got more wounded. I am sanding up from the floor and notice that one of the officers has blood running from his eye. The MRLS hit the communications vehicle, jeep, HQ building, barracks, sports hall. From now on the Georgians were carefully aiming for the peacekeepers.

Peacekeeper stations report that Georgians are finishing off wounded and South-Osetian village of Hetagurovo was run over by tanks and leveled to the ground. No info on losses on our or Georgian side. We can only evaluate based on destroyed houses and bodies on the streets.

The shelling goes on and on. By dinner time (in Russia around 1400) a stream of women, children and elderly starts arriving at the base. They are escorted to the bomb shelter.

At some moment the military at the base understand that we are cut off. A fire is set near the HQ, with haste secret documents are burned with the help of gasoline, next step - from a PM pistol a secret suitcase is shot and coded comm. equipment is destroyed by a sledgehammer. Osetian militia takes the Georgian flag that along with Osetian and Russian flags symbolized the peacekeepers units and throws it into the fire.

By 1500 Georgians stop the fire and declare safe passage from the city for civilians and journalists.

-This is a lie. After the Georgian president Sakashvilli declared ceasefire and promised not to open fire we are under attack for 15 hours! – answers my question on safe passage one of the officers.

And he is right. Less then in half and hour the Georgian artillery resumes shelling. A steady feeling that no escape is possible builds up. The only option left is to be captured by Georgians.

Georgian tanks drive pass the base gates. One is destroyed by South-Osetian MOD minister general Barankevich.

A recon team is planning to leave town. I asked to joint them. We leave Tskhinvali running from cover to cover around 19 pm. Georgian snipers are all around the town. By luck we reach the north outskirts of the city and enter the forest. We walk on for several hours. Legs are wet and knee deep in mud. We take a short stop. Shells are flying overhead. The most dangerous now are the Georgian diversionary groups. Recon guys tell that they have ammunition only for 1,30 h firefight. We were walking in the direction of Djawa, where our units are stationed and from where our arty is firing. We took a round-about to evade own shells. Road is covered with destroyed BMPs, Ural trucks, APCs. It took us 9 hours to reach Djawa. I am totally exhausted, the recon guys are used to this, I am not. The first 24 hour of war pass.

In the morning 58th army set up its HQ's in Dhava. We are preparing for the assault on Tshinvalli. 693rd regiment under the command of the Lt.General Hrulev starts to move towards the town. After him come the fighters of the Chechen Battalion Vostok and 22nd brigade(GRU Spetsnaz). I follow after the Spetsnaz towards Tshinvalli. There is a panic on the road, from the town a large amount of refugees flee south. It means that assault have failed.

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But everything started very well. Our force closed onto the Tshinvalli and in the morning they were supposed to go into the town, but it dint, Georgian indirection was heavy. Su-25's, artillery, tanks and snipers. Its hard to pass throught that. General Hrulev was cautious, he was sending recon, tank groups, attacked firing points, but he dint advance because he had a minimal force. Meanwhile press was reporting that Russian troops captured Tshinvalli, while we dint.

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During the first few morning ours we lost 2 trucks and one BMP because of the Georgian mortar fire. Every time we moved forward we received a heavy amount of fire on us. It was then the General gave the order to flank the Tshinvalli from South-East. It could be seen that he was not comfortable with the decision. But an order is an order.

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An motorized battalion was sent forward, 30 BMP's, 3 BTR's and 2 tanks together with General Hrulev. We were promised that we would receive artillery fire from our old positions. Mission was to break the siege of the peacekeepers in Tshinvalli and to take control over a part of the town. We went ahead.

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Tshinvalli met our battalion with silence, which is often "false". First kilometers were calm, recon went first to check the roads. They moved to the edge of the town and got into an ambush. A

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