 The same day, other elements of the division occupied the area around Camp Valdahon, about thirty kilometers southeast of Besançon.Subsequent events demonstrated the division's lack of loyalty to the Nazi cause.On 27 August 1944, under the direction of Major Lev (Leon) Hloba, a Ukrainian battalion of the division at Vesoul shot their German leadership cadre and defected to an FFI unit in the Confracourt Woods, bringing 818 men, 45-mm antitank guns, 82-mm and 50-mm mortars, 21 heavy machine guns, as well as large amounts of small arms and small-caliber ammunition.