“You can feel the air vibrating. It’s like being inside a drum”: on the frontlines of the battle for Bakhmut. From 1843 magazine
are among those currently fighting to hold the city of Bakhmut. The unit grew out of a volunteer militia that was established when Russia invaded eastern Ukraine in 2014, though it’s been reconstituted since then and brought under the control of the Ministry of Defence.
. Now, as the battle in Bakhmut drags on, they seem tired. They have seen people die, they have killed, they have lost brothers. I can see their hearts are heavier. But they have also become more skilled.volunteers One night when I was in the city with the Chechens we got an order to evacuate. The street lights don’t work any more and we had to drive on the dark roads without headlights: to be seen would mean getting shot.
It rained all day yesterday, so the trenches will probably be flooded now. The wet soaks everything, your clothes, your shoes. Carrying my camera, my bullet-proof vest and my backpack – much less than a soldier’s load – I sometimes found it almost impossible to move through the mud. But when you’re told to move you have to do it quickly. Between different positions there is little to protect you from the Russian snipers a few hundred metres away.
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