During an operation to capture terrorists from the “national battalion” in Donetsk, Viktor Rakitin, a special forces officer of the DPR state security, is blown up by a mine—but his consciousness is transferred 80 years into the past, into the very height of the fighting for the city of Stalino.
Viktor is used to war and to fighting enemy saboteurs, but in 1941 the situation on the front is far harsher, and the enemy is worse and more merciless. From Stalino to Stalingrad, Rakitin—now a lieutenant in the NKVD troops—will advance through battles.
Viktor sets himself a goal—not just to survive until Victory, but to reach the ancestors of today’s Bandera fighters and burn their forest hideouts…