The new line of defense in Donbass disfigures the snowy rural landscape as far as the eye can see, like a scar. Multiple rows of barbed wire, anti-infantry traps and anti-tank ditches follow one another over a width of 120 meters. A few dozen meters to the rear, hidden under a hedge of trees, is a second line of trenches and buried fortifications, from which the Ukrainian soldiers are preparing to hold the Russian invader under their fire.
Built in the Dnipropetrovsk region, now located 35 kilometers from advanced Russian positions, this section is part of an expanding network of several hundred kilometers of lines echeloned in depth, intended to contain the thrust of the Russian army westwards, towards the Dnieper. A colossal project testifying to the conviction, within the Ukrainian general staff, that the aggression of Moscow’s troops is not about to stop.
“We are in for five or ten years of war, until the Russians find another bone to gnaw, says Oleksandr, a press officer from the DSST, one of the two branches of Ukrainian military engineering, somberly. What will stop Putin is not a so-called peace agreement or a ceasefire, it is brutal coercion. A disintegration of Russia or a fall of the regime »continues the fifty-year-old.
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