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‘We Have to Defend Our Motherland’: On the Front Lines of Ukraine’s War


NOVOMYKHAILIVKA, Ukraine—In the woods outside this front-line town in eastern Ukraine, a battle-worn unit of Ukrainian soldiers have hunkered down for the winter.
The troops live and fight sometimes only a few hundred yards across no man’s land from their enemies, a combined force of pro-Russian separatists and Russian regulars.
Some of the Ukrainian soldiers here have been fighting since March 2014. They belong to the Aidar Battalion, a former paramilitary unit now incorporated into Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense as a volunteer combat unit.
Ukrainian civilian volunteer Edward Kulinich, left, speaks with Moscow. (Photos: Nolan Peterson/The Daily Signal)
After nearly three years of constant …read more

Source: The Daily Signal

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