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By Marc Santora and Liubov Sholudko

Photographs by Finbarr O’Reilly

Five months after the Ukrainian forces swept the border in the first invasion of the land of Russia since World War II, the two armies participate in some of the maximum confrontations of the war there, fighting for the earth and the leverage in the conflict.

The intensity of the battles remembers some of the worst seating east of Ukraine in the beyond 3 years, adding villages such as Bakhmut and Avdiivka, names that now evoke massive blood bath memories for two -sided infantry men.

The fight, in the Kursk region in Russia, gave importance to the perspective of the territory to play a role in any negotiation of high fire. Faced with the perspective of a new unpredictable US president, who has promised to end the war quickly, clarifying the terms, Ukraine hopes to use the Russian territory as a negotiation currency.

Russia, founded on North Korea reinforcements, expects this territory from the reach of Ukraine.

“Here, the Russians will have to take this territory at all costs and pay for their entire strength there, while we give everything we have to hold it,” the sergeant said. Oleksandr, 46, leader of a Ukrainian infantry platoon. “We sustain, we destroy, we destroy, we destroy, so much so that it’s hard to understand. “

He and other soldiers, asking to be identified by only a first name or call sign in accordance with military protocol, said that attacking North Korean infantry had made the battles far more ferocious than before.

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