‘Their human resources are unlimited’: Russia’s advances signal bleak spring for Ukrainians
www.theguardian.com
Thu, 16 Jan 2025 06:00:01 +0200
If Moscows forces manage to take all of Donetsk oblast it would be a symbolic moment for Putin and Kyiv In an underground command post in eastern Ukraine, a Ukrainian soldier peered at a map.
Russian positions were marked in red.
A year ago enemy troops were at least 35 miles 60km away from the administrative border between Donetsk oblast and the neighbouring Dnipropetrovsk region.
Now they were on the doorstep a mere 5 miles away.The situation is pretty bad, Valerii callsign Oves admitted, sitting in front of a bank of screens showing live footage from the battlefield.
Reconnaissance drones zoomed in on Russian positions under a snowy treeline.
If a mouse moves, we can see it, he said.
His brigade, the 110th, spent a year and a half defending the eastern city of Avdiivka.
It fell in February 2024 after a long and brutal siege.
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