slovaks had 261 human casualties: 75 killed, 167 wounded, 2 pows and 17 mia; while the soviets had 600 between killed and wounded. the rychlé brigády has not the enough force to defeat a strongest enemy positioned in pre-prepared. the dislike of the slovak soldiers of fight the soviet union was too the first defeat of the soviets, and it was informed that this was absent in official reports. the automotive workshop staff had enough technical means to repair all of the battalion vehicles, but under the command of anti-fascist officers and of czechoslovak orientation, they withdrawn all the vehicles and the whole battalion to slovakia on the pretext that they can not be repaired under field conditions. the rest of the brigade was annexed to the german . general josef turanec wrote in his diary: "the creature is essentially coward, once the russians start shooting, they run away, the officers are on the offensive, but on the first line retreat. in the same way, the germans themselves note that the slovak soldiers were too sensible to artillery fire and were running away".