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‘Here, people fight for their lives, for every manifestation of it’
In the trenches near the front line, a Ukrainian soldier reveals his full potential
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Near the front lines, everyone sets up their trench like it is their little home away from home.
PHOTO: NYTIMES
Yegor Firsov
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An infantryman’s least favourite weather is a temperature of 1.6 deg C and pouring rain, when the trench floods with knee-deep, near-freezing water. Surviving in such conditions is truly an art and it is at these moments in particular that a trench has a special energy.
Here, people fight for their lives, for every manifestation of it. Here, communion with God is sincere and more frequent than in any church.
