On the morning the war begins, Lieutenant General a. D. Volker Halbauer on his cell phone again and again. The breaking news about the Russian all-out attack on the Ukraine are a shock for him, an “emotional, difficult moment”, as he says. On the morning of February 24, 2022, however, he gave little attention to the forecasts then heard that the Russian superiority would now prevail very quickly, and that Russia would even take Kiev.