Jamie Roberts, reporting for the BBC, witnessed the ferocity of the fighting up close in eastern Ukraine. Here is his account of ordinary people turned fighters, holding the line against Russia
Natalia, a 27-year-old combat media from Kyiv, told Jamie Roberts she can’t relate to the lives of her old friends any more KUPYANSK – “Stop the car, put on body armour.” Zak, an ex-British Para and machine gunner, directs us towards a wrecked petrol station. Explosions thunder in the near distance as we don helmets and flak jackets. We drive on into Kupyansk; a frontline town nestled in a valley in north-east Ukraine, a hotspot in the.
Commander Dmytro shows me a live drone feed that relays images of a nearby forest and explains the situation. The Russians want to take control of a railway line that cuts through the forest, to use it as a resupply route in their intended advance towards Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second biggest city. Commander Dmytro and his men are here to stop the Russians.
The soldiers here are either very young, 19 to 20 years old, or considerably older at 40 to 50. Many fighting age men have been killed or wounded, hollowing out the median-age range of soldiers who’d usually be expected to fill the core infantry . “Here we have a completely different reality. You meet up with your friends, and you have nothing to talk about. They are not interested in listening to some of my stories. I’m not interested in hearing about their new phone or new car,” Natalia explains.
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