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By Marc Santora and Liubov Sholudko
Photographs by Finbarr o’Reilly
Five months after the Ukrainian forces swept the border the first invasion of the Russian box since World War II, the two armies are dedicated to some of the maximum confrontations of the war there, fighting on earth and lever in the conflict.
The intensity of the battles is reminiscent of some of the worst seats in eastern Ukraine in the years and beyond, adding towns like Bakhmut and Avdiivka, names that now evoke mass memories for infantrymen on either side.
The fight, in the Kursk region in Russia, gave importance to the perspective of the territory to play a role in any negotiation of high fire. Faced with the perspective of a new unpredictable US president, who promised to end the war quickly, clarifying the terms, Ukraine hopes to use the Russian territory as a negotiation currency.
Russia, founded on reinforcements from North Korea, awaits this territory from Ukraine’s reach.
“Here, the Russians will have to take this territory at all costs and pay for their entire strength there, while we give everything we have to hold it,” the sergeant said. Oleksandr, 46, leader of a Ukrainian infantry platoon. “We sustain, we destroy, we destroy, we destroy, so much so that it’s hard to understand. “
He and other soldiers, asking to be identified by only a first name or call sign in accordance with military protocol, said that attacking North Korean infantry had made the battles far more ferocious than before.
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