Guards, into the Fire!

Lieutenant Ilya Mironov, an officer of the Russian Guard (Rosgvardiya), rides with his special unit to a training ground to practice throwing live grenades. One of the young soldiers drops a grenade at his own feet, and the lieutenant shields the boy from the shrapnel with his body…

After the explosion, Mironov comes to himself to the roar of engines—passing by him is a column of tanks with crosses on their turrets. What is this, are they filming a movie? No, Ilya finds himself in June 1941.

The Red Army is retreating under the pressure of superior forces, and the guardsman begins his war. There is no single line of the front—German armored wedges have deeply split the positions of our units. Why break through to their own, if the enemy is all around? Guardsmen—into the fire!