One Soldiers War in Chechnya - Download free ebook

the yard. There are no more tripwires -
Malakhanov has taken care of them all.
The yard has an apple orchard, a barn
and a house, which despite six hours of
shelling is oddly more or less intact
apart from a few broken windows. We
go inside and find two rooms, a large
working oven and a load of beds with
pillows and blankets. Yes, today we
will sleep like people, in the warm and
on beds.
The company commander says we’ll
set up the command post here and orders
us to comb the remaining houses, just in
case, although it’s clear they are also
empty. We split up in the yard, half of us
to the left and half to the right. We only
take a few steps before mortar shells