Ukraine’s war-weary soldiers have fought a grinding trench war against Russia-backed forces for six years. By now, said Bohdan Petryk, a soldier in the 128th Mountain Assault Brigade based near the eastern city of Volnovakha, they know their enemy’s tricks, they can sense when an assault is coming, and they know how to defend themselves.
Russia's War Against Ukraine
RFE/RL: Ukrainian soldiers brace to fight a silent, deadly enemy
A Ukrainian border guard wearing a medical mask checks the temperature of a woman queuing to enter Ukraine from the territory controlled by Russia-backed militants at the checkpoint near the Novotroitske village in Donetsk Oblast, eastern Ukraine, on March 16, 2020.
