of the brigade, and was threatened with a new arrest. Capture and Service in the Russian Liberation Army In December 1942, Bunyachenko was captured by a reconnaissance group of the 2nd Romanian Infantry Division, 25 km west of Vladikavkaz. He was held in a concentration camp in Crimea and Kherson from his capture until June 1943. In May, he applied to join the Russian Liberation Army, a collaborationist anti-Communist force led by General Andrey Vlasov. By September 1943, he had been approved to serve as a communications officer in the headquarters of the German 7th Army in Le Mans, in the Sarthe department. In June and July 1944, he led a combined regiment of two Eastern battalions in a defense against Operation Overlord in an unknown portion of the French coast. He was awarded the Iron Cross 2nd class for his actions on the Western Front. On 10 November 1944 he was promoted to commander of the First Infantry Division of the ROA, leading a total of twenty thousand soldiers and auxiliary personnel. In February 1945 Bunyachenko was promoted to Major General, and was rotated to the Eastern front in March. In Mid-April he participated in Operation: April Weather, an effort to defend the Oder River, which today marks the German-Polish border, from the encroaching Red Army. When Operation: April Weather failed, General Bunyachenko ordered his troops to withdraw from the river into Czechia on 16 April. One source alleges that Vlasov and Bunyachenko together intended to muster the ROA in Slovenia and strike against Jozip Tito's partisans. This source states that the ROA intended to retake Slovenia and portions of Croatia and Northern Bosnia and establish a "White Yugoslavia" which would be friendly to the Allies and particularly America in the war's aftermath. This source is not corroborated, and should be treated with skepticism. It is, however, a matter of historical record that the ROA and Bunyachenko defected from the Nazis and attempted to align themselves to the Western Allies as Endsieg approached. The Prague Uprising As Bunyachenko's division marched from the front lines, the commanders signed an agreement with the partisans who led the Prague Uprising on 4 May 1945. Bunyachenko's soldiers entered open battle on 6 May, and were ordered to attack again on 7 May. By that evening, the Czech National Council requested that the ROA leave Prague due to the influence of Soviet-aligned Communists on