Special Envoy to Zaporizhia, Nikopol, Novoolexandrovka, Dudtchani, Novokairi and Kherson
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If they had binoculars, Lvov and Andrei could see the Russian forces hidden in the vast carpets of thickets, less than a kilometer away, separated from them only by a bend in the Dnieper.
Otherwise, they hear them.
Here, near Mylove, a ghost town,
"the artillery strikes often"
, observes Lvov, 47, a volunteer with his only experience of military service.
At 51, Andrei is a veteran of the Yugoslav and Iraqi wars.
Both hold a position, among the countless that dot the new front line following the curves of the river.
A bunker, and a trench cluttered with rubbish that leads further back to another shelter.
Shifting, these posts now spread out and were reinforced over some 300 km of the lower course of the river between Zaporijjia, to the north, and Mykolaiv to the south.
The movement has accelerated since the withdrawal by the Russian army from its western bank…
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