About the book: 2015 / Evgeniy Polozhiy (Sumy), 47 years old - a famous journalist and writer. The publishing house "Folio" published his novels: "Potyag", "Merita ї ї Airport", "Uncle on God's Name", "Vezhi Movchannya", "Yuri Yuriyovich, Wives' Lover", "Fish Children." Ilovaisk" is a book about the courage, incredible heroism and humanity of Ukrainian soldiers and officers, fighters of volunteer battalions, military defense battalions, all those who found themselves in the “Ilovaisk cauldron” at the end of August 2014, which became the largest defeat of the Ukrainian army during the war in the east . This is an honest book about the war, which, as we know, has never made anyone better, and yet, among blood, fire and iron, people remain people. The author heard the stories of about a hundred participants in the Ilovaisk tragedy, the book is based on real events. However, please consider all matches of names, surnames and call signs to be random.