Serpents, grass snakes, sun-baked plain — that is how the Ukrainian south from the Donbas and Sloboda — Ukrainian lands where the frontlines also lay.
On this sunburnt plain, where the possibility of life seems somewhat illusory, the Ukrainian military has been living underground for several months. Life, it turns out, can go on here. Someone managed to propose to their girlfriend, someone got a dog — right here, in the dugouts.
hromadske saw firsthand what it costs for the Ukrainian army to move deeper into the Kherson region. And what the Ukrainian counteroffensive is like here.
One of the fighters Nastia and Kolian met here was killed two days later in a battle in a new, recently taken up position.
Life here wins over death, even though death stands side by side – just in the next trench, in the next position, on the next task.
The material was created in frame of «Life in War» project with the support of Public Interest Journalism Lab and IWM.
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