Trenches

From prison to the trenches: Inside Ukraine’s attempt to turn inmates into soldiers

Central Ukraine CNN — Battalion commander Dmytro Kukharchuk speaks quietly but firmly. Holding his tattooed hands behind his back, he tells the men – all convicts – about his experience fighting for Ukraine in Bakhmut and Avdiivka. Kukharchuk, 34, is at a prison in central Ukraine, trying to recruit physically strong, healthy and motivated prisoners …

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Egypt Independent June 13, 2024

Rats and mice swarm trenches in Ukraine in grisly echo of World War I

CNN — The frontlines of Russia’s war in Ukraine have become infested with rats and mice, reportedly spreading disease that causes soldiers to vomit and bleed from their eyes, crippling combat capability and recreating the gruesome conditions that plagued troops in the trench warfare of World War I. A Ukrainian servicewoman, who goes by the …

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Egypt Independent January 21, 2024