About the book: 2024 / The fierce battle for Mariupol went down in history as the hardest since the Great February 24, 2022. Flurry of fire and onslaught! The Ukrainian Nazis clearly did not expect such a development of events. More than three dozen combat helicopters flew at extremely low altitudes. Transport-landing Mi-17MD were in the first wave of landing on Gostomel airport near Kiev. Attack Ka-52s immediately entered the battle, attacking anti-aircraft guns and MANPADS crews. Smoky and fiery arrows hit the target, and the onboard automatic cannons made short knocks if the fast-moving Alligators overshot the range of missiles. Lines of 30-mm shells plowed through enemy positions... The Gostomel landing operation is recognized as the best landing operation of our time and has forever entered the history of military art. 200 “Spartans” of the Russian landing force in Gostomel fulfilled their duty with honor! During the capture of a strategically important airport, they “sent more than 200 Nazis to Bandera” without losing a single one of their own. Thirty thousand Ukrainian fighters were pinned down near Kiev for more than a month while the battles for Mariupol, Volnovakha, Lisichansk and Severodonetsk were taking place, when the Russian Army was developing operational success in the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions. The heroic fighters of the Airborne Forces, the elite of our armed forces, not only survived in unequal battles, but also destroyed many Nazis - well trained, equipped and armed by their Western partners, Nazis - motivated to kill Russians.