While seizing control of a dam, first lieutenant Ilya Pakulov discovered one of the enemy’s crucial lines of defense. He moved towards it in his armored vehicle and drew the enemy fire on himself. As he did so, he identified the nationalists’ firing points and relayed their coordinates to Russian army headquarters. He was wounded in the attack, but still managed to get his group out of danger. He has been awarded the Order of Courage.
Major Dmitry Lysenko adjusted the direction of artillery fire while our troops were liberating a village. Nationalists had hit his post with mortars. Lysenko was wounded by fragments of the shell, and suffered a concussion, but moved to a back-up position and continued to perform the tasks required of him.
Soldier Ilya Kochengin also stayed in his position after being wounded. Together with his group he blocked an advance by radicals in one of the enemy’s villages, opened fire on them with a grenade launcher, and didn’t let the enemy breach their defenses to mount a counterattack.