—I immediately warn commanders and political workers: there will be no help, and there is no point in discouraging the division’s personnel with the empty hope that fresh units will arrive and defeat the aggressor. Every commander, every Red Army soldier must know that the task of our division is to give time to those who are preparing the defense to the east of us to prepare to repel the onslaught on their own lines. Wear down the advanced units of the Germans with a flexible defense and, having retreated with battles to Belovezhskaya Pushcha, use the remnants of the personnel to strengthen the defense line along the Narew River. “Suicide bombers,” one of the battalion commanders grimly muttered under his breath.