Most of the men are freshly called up. The casualty rate of some counter-offensive operations is so high that new recruits are being readied to replace the lost soldiers
in a bloody struggle for every metre in their attempt to punch a way through their defences on the southern Zaporizhia front.
Ukraine’s push south is proceeding painfully slowly. Russian troops have prepared formidable defences which the Ukrainians are finding hard to breach. These include drones transmitting live pictures back to their operators, minefields and lingering munitions. They have hugely increased the challenges that Ukraine’s soldiers are facing compared with last year.
With a prominent beard and hair done in wartime-fashionable Cossack style, with shaved sides and a topknot, Karp is a grizzled veteran who took shrapnel to his head and neck during the Kherson offensive last October. He is only 28, but has been in the army since 2014. What annoys him more than anything are the back-seat drivers of the war. One soldier complains: “Everyone is saying ‘Go, go, go’ but these sofa-experts don’t understand the war’s reality.
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