By Steffen Schwarzkopf (
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)
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Life or death is just a matter of speed.
Three, maybe four minutes ago, the rocket launcher appeared on a path not far from the village of Pisky, and now it's right in the middle of a field of sunflowers.
“
We just got the coordinates of our scouts
,” Andrei said, shouting “
Dawai!
(quickly!) to the two soldiers who manage the artillery.
At 52, he leads a four-soldier unit of the Ukrainian 80th Assault Brigade.
When we accompany him at the end of July, his mission is as follows: to eliminate the Russian positions located twelve kilometers away.
Until then, Russian forces had advanced from the city of Donetsk over the weeks, slowly but steadily gaining ground.
Moments later, the first salvo is launched: five 122 caliber rockets are fired with a mixture of deafening hiss and roar.
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