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9th Company: A Story of Sacrifice and Survival

In 1988, at a recruitment base in Krasnoyarsk, young Soviet Army conscripts say farewell to their families and loved ones before preparing to leave for military duty. Fellow recruits Lyutyi, Chugun, Gioconda, Ryaba, Stas, and Vorobey are assigned to the 345th Independent Guards Airborne Regiment for eventual deployment to Afghanistan.

Training and Camaraderie

Arriving at their bootcamp in the Fergana Valley of Uzbekistan, the recruits meet Chechen conscript Pinochet and their drill instructor, Senior Warrant Officer Dygalo, a traumatized Afghanistan veteran. He trains the recruits hard and treats them harshly, during which the recruits are indoctrinated, overcome their differences, and build bonds. The friends celebrate the end of their training with a local prostitute nicknamed “Snow White”. Dygalo is heartbroken when his request to deploy with the recruits is refused. The recruits eventually board a transport plane bound for Bagram airbase.

Deployment and Loss

At Bagram, a fellow paratrooper heading home gives Lyutyi a lucky medallion, which he claims kept him safe through several tours. The veteran boards a transport plane that is hit by a missile on take-off, and it crashes, killing everyone on board. The soldiers are assigned to the 9th company; Pinochet and Ryaba are assigned to the 4th company, separating them from their friends.

The friends meet Warrant Officer “Khokhol” Pogrebnyak, Sergeant “Afanasiy” Afanasiev, and medic Sergeant “Kurbashi” Kurbanhaliev, who all served with Dygalo before he was medically evacuated. The veterans gradually teach the recruits about the realities of the war. The company, led by Captain “Kagraman” Bystrov, leaves the base to deliver supplies to an isolated Soviet Army outpost. They encounter a group of Mujahideen led by Akhmed, who engages the outpost in a short skirmish. The next day, Vorobey shoots and kills Akhmed after discovering him by accident.

Final Stand and Reflection

The company is deployed as part of Operation Magistral and establish an outpost on a nameless hill, designated as Hill 3234, to protect passing convoys. Ryaba reunites with the friends as the sole survivor of a Mujahideen ambush, which left him wounded and traumatized. Stas falls asleep on guard duty and is beaten by the veterans as punishment. The next day, Khokhol orders Gioconda to find matches, who fearfully enters an Afghan village alone to trade food for them.

Months later, the 9th company remains deployed on Hill 3234, seeing little action. Pinochet is reassigned to the company, reuniting with his friends, and the men mourn their lost comrades while celebrating New Year’s Eve. Days later, Gioconda is immediately killed when an army of Mujahideen attack the hill. Over the course of the battle, many soldiers die on both sides, including Khokhol, Kurbashi, Chugun, Vorobey, and Pinochet. Surrounded and low on ammunition, Lyutyi and Afanasiy lead the remaining men in a final defense, until Mi-24 helicopter gunships arrive and kill the remaining Afghan fighters. Lyutyi emerges as the sole survivor, but learns from an arriving colonel that the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan already began, rendering the battle meaningless. Distraught, Lyutyi tears the lucky medallion from his neck and weeps.

On February 9, 1989, Lyutyi is seen on a BTR-70 convoy departing Afghanistan. In his narration, he tells of the eventual dissolution of the Soviet Union, Dygalo’s eventual death from a stroke, and the futility of the war itself, but declares that the 9th company earned its own personal victory in the end.

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