A shovel and a blue bucket in hand, a Ukrainian soldier climbs out of the trench he was digging, which would be part of the new defense line if Bakhmut fell to Russian forces.
After around nine months of fierce combat, Russian troops including Wagner paramilitary fighters hold about two-thirds of the eastern city.
"We are on the second line of defence. That's where our guys would take position if the enemy launched a massive assault," explains 23-year-old sergeant Andriy. Poplar trunks held together by wire and coated with mud and tires reinforce the roofs of the trenches' shelters. So Russian troops have dug miles and miles of trenches behind the frontline in the south and in the east."These orcs constantly shell us," says Andriy, using a Ukrainian term for Russians.
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