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A concertina of barbed wire shines like a silver garland unrolled on the green grass.
Ukrainian soldiers stand guard in a freshly dug zigzag trench in the prairie.
An orange excavator clears a location for an armored vehicle in the loam.
From time to time, invisible cannons fire with a loud crash that sends the birds flying.
On the sunny banks of the Bug, near where the river empties into the Black Sea, Russians and Ukrainians engage in what increasingly resembles a war of position.
"
The front has stabilized between
Mykolaiv
and Kherson
," says Ilya Shpolianski, who directs Ukrainian territorial defense supply operations in the area.
“
Militarily, the activity of the Russians makes no sense.
They launch small attacks almost every day, but we repel them.
These are more attempts to test our system than real offensives.
They…
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