As the coup faltered, and the plotters lost the initiative while support for Boris Yeltsin, the President of the Russian SFSR, grew, the plotters called in reinforcements from the Tula Division, in the form of a battalion from the 137th Guards Airborne Regiment.
As the coup faltered, and the plotters lost momentum while support for Boris Yeltsin, President of the Russian SFSR, increased, the plotters sought reinforcements from the Tula Division in the form of a battalion from the 137th Guards Airborne Regiment.