VIDEO. In Ukraine, soldiers brave the cold of the trenches in the face of the Russian threat

The frame comes out of another time.

The soldiers are bundled up in their military vests, rifles in the arm, in the heart of trenches buried under the snow.

The interior is even more rustic: stone, wood, ammunition everywhere.

These Ukrainian soldiers were stationed here in Krymske in eastern Ukraine to guard their border.

A few weeks ago, Russia moved nearly 100,000 troops across the road.

Ukraine has since feared further aggression.

The last dates back to 2014, when Russia annexed Crimea.

This had led to a conflict that still takes place today, between the pro-Russian separatists of Donbass and the Ukrainian army.

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The soldiers present in the trenches feel their presence in this quagmire as a duty.

“We are determined to stand,” said one of them.

We will not abandon our country.

We have fought for independence for so long.

Ukraine has been independent for 30 years and will remain so for hundreds of years.

So Russia's aggression is nothing to us.

Another explains that even though his family is worried about him, he won't stay there indefinitely: "My plan is to push back the Russians and go home, so my daughter can say later, 'Wow , daddy, you fought off a superpower with your own hands ””

The West denounced the Russian maneuver and gave support to Kiev.