“Drive!” shouted M. Drapatas, then commander of the 72nd Mechanized Brigade battalion, to the driver of the military transport vehicle, who pressed the accelerator pedal to the floor and almost jumped into the air with the 18-ton combat machine, thus leaping over the defensive barriers erected by pro-Russian separatists.
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A column of armored vehicles followed in his footsteps, pushing further along one of Mariupol’s main avenues past the puppet fighters. M. Drapatas’ mission was to rescue police officers from the encirclement of pro-Russian fighters.
