Batalyony prosyat ognya (1985)

Two battalions of the 85th Rifle Regiment under the command of Major Bulbanyuk and Captain Maksimov should force the Dnepr in order to create a bridgehead in the area of the villages of Novomikhaylovka and Belokhatka for the subsequent attack of the division - this was the combat mission. The battalions were ordered: having strengthened themselves on the bridgehead and started a battle, to signal the "ask for fire" division - and all the division artillery would strike at the enemy, and the division itself would go on the offensive after artillery preparation.