IF YOU IMAGINE that the entrance strains in Donbas are well-defined, you will have to assume once more. Oleksandr, an officer with Ukraine’s 79th brigade, watches the battlefield close to the frontline the town of Kurakhove on control-room monitors on a daily basis. The Russians are most commonly in entrance of Ukrainian positions, he says, however once in a while motive havoc kilometres in the back of them. For the wretched pairs of infantrymen in scattered positions on the fringe of what he calls the kill zone, it’s extra incessantly than now not a one-way venture. As many as 18 Russian infantrymen may die to dislodge two worn, hungry Ukrainians. However sooner or later, they’ll. “We’re exchanging lives and territory for time and the opponent’s assets.”
