Special envoy between Mykolaiv and Kherson
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The night was quiet for the first time in months.
The Russian artillery remained silent.
But no one draws the slightest conclusion.
“They will start again soon enough”
, philosopher Vassili.
The soldier's face, marked by the years, the sun and a life that has probably never been easy, creases with a smile.
Behind him, the earthen wall of the casemate is crumbling without his noticing it.
Ahead, a trench runs along a hedge of poplars, then advances into a dry field.
Regularly in this little gut, which inevitably brings back images of the 1916 front, men wait.
In this corner of the countryside, somewhere between Mykolaiv and Kherson, the neighboring town about forty kilometers away and under Russian occupation since the beginning of March, the unit of this motorized infantry brigade is waging war.
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The plain is perfectly flat, and empty up to the first Russian lines.
Only a few forward positions…
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