In the eastern Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk, mechanic-turned-soldier Artchk helps shore up defences against imminent Russian attack while, nearby, farmer Vasyl Avramenko laments the loss of crops supplanted by mines.
Shells are raining down steadily on Kramatorsk and its twin, Sloviansk, and they are poised to become the next frontline in Moscow's offensive in the heavily industrialised Donbas.
Once hubs of the Soviet machine-building industry, they are located in the Donetsk region, and fully in Russia's crosshairs after the Kremlin's forces claimed control of the neighbouring Luhansk region - also part of Donbas - last weekend. "We shoot one time and then they respond with cluster bombs," said one artilleryman who declined to give his name.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has made capturing the Donbas on behalf of separatists a main war aim after an abortive assault on Kyiv beginning on Feb. 24.Kramatorsk and Sloviansk could be the last major obstacles to achieving that goal, and many of the civilians who have decided to stay in the cities are thought to be Russian sympathisers.
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