Ukraine gears up for a military push
Ukrainian soldiers are getting ready for a spring offensive, and the country is under pressure to show some measure of success in bolstering morale for soldiers and civilians, shoring up Western support and reclaiming stolen territory.
With fighting in the eastern Donbas region settling into a bloody stalemate, a patch of the Zaporizhzhia region of southeastern Ukraine could prove to be the next big theater, a focal point of the long-awaited counteroffensive. The Times spent two weeks near the front lines there, documenting life in the trenches.
The fighting there is intensely personal. My colleagues spent time with the 110th Territorial Defense Brigade, and most of its soldiers come from areas now occupied by Russia. “We just want to kick them off our land, that’s it,” a 32-year-old former teacher said. “We’ll have nowhere to return to if we don’t stop this.”
Strategy: Zaporizhzhia makes up the heart of a southern land bridge, which…
2023-04-30 15:59:07
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