NEAR BAKHMUT: Shovels in hand and helmets on heads, Ukrainian soldiers jumped out of a military truck and prepare to dig a trench near Bakhmut, in the conflict-hit east of the country. The team leader gave instructions to the 30 or so diggers: 'You have to dig from there to there,' he said, pointing to a f
NEAR BAKHMUT: Shovels in hand and helmets on heads, Ukrainian soldiers jumped out of a military truck and prepare to dig a trench near Bakhmut, in the conflict-hit east of the country.
Russia invaded Ukraine in February last year. These days, most of the fighting is in the east, for control of the industrial Donbass region, in particular the city of Bakhmut, which has been almost completely destroyed. When calm eventually returned, the team leader ordered the soldiers to run back towards the truck, parked about 50 metres away under cover of trees.The soldiers ran to the vehicle, some with shovels still in hand."They were cluster munitions," Ruslan, a sergeant in the team, told AFP a few minutes later from a sheltered spot.
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