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Opposite a military barracks, located about ten kilometers from Maidan Square, Victory Avenue is strewn with debris from the night's fighting.
Near a bridge where three still smoking charred carcasses of troop transport trucks lie, Ukrainian soldiers collect human remains mixed with shrapnel and grenades and Kalashnikov casings, which they place in plastic bags .
In the distance, dull shellfire punctuates this early morning under a cold sun.
Near a bus shelter with windows shattered by shrapnel and gusts, three Ukrainian soldiers guard the body of a comrade killed in action, wrapped in a piece of carpet.
Soldiers dig shelters and trenches in anticipation of the new fighting to come.
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“
It was hard
”!
says a Ukrainian officer, his features drawn by a restless night.
The Russian soldiers arrived at two o'clock in the morning on his position.
The fighting lasted an hour and a half...
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