About the book: 2023 / September 2022... Russian paratroopers hold the defense in the steppe near Kherson. There are few of them, the Dnieper is behind them. And the answer to the question “Why are we here?” turns into the famous motto of the Airborne Forces “Nobody but us!” This front-line story is the first example of “lieutenant prose” written during a special military operation in Ukraine. The author, an eyewitness to the events described, talks in detail about the hard combat work of the soldiers of the Airborne Forces of the Russian Federation, fighting for the future of the Russian world.