A clamor rises in the sky, from the clearing of an undergrowth at nightfall.
It's a hot late summer day.
Through a cloud of dust, about fifty men run around a fire.
Rising in the center is a totem representing the Slavic god of war, Perun.
Facing the flames, a man.
The top of the regulation military uniform is replaced by a khaki cotton shirt with a collar embroidered with traditional Ukrainian motifs – a vyshyvanka.
He steps into the arena.
The face marked by a birthmark, the intense blue gaze, Trainer, commander of the 3rd regiment of the 98 Azov battalion of the Territorial Defense Forces – or Terytorialna oborona, in Ukrainian –, is distinguished by his long hair standing on top of his skull .
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Face of fire, neck of a bull, Trainer is a devout pagan, like the majority of the fighters here present.
While each soldier brandishes his AK-74 automatic rifle and, sometimes, his combat dagger, Trainer, a basin of water...
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