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Ukrainian infantry men describe fierce clashes while Russian forces review to resume the territory in the Kursk region that can be key to imaginable fire conversations.

A Ukrainian reservoir destroyed Thursday a few kilometers from the border with the Russian region of Kursk. Credit. . .

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By Marc Santora and Liubov Sholudko

Photographs of Finber O’Reilly

Five months after the Ukrainian forces swept the border the first invasion of the Russian box since World War II, the two armies are dedicated to some of the maximum confrontations of the war there, fighting on earth and lever 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 fighting, in the Kursk region of Russia, has taken on a layer of significance for the territory’s potential to play a role in any cease-fire negotiations. Facing the prospect of an unpredictable new U.S. president — who has vowed to end the war swiftly, without clarifying the terms — Ukraine hopes to use Russian territory as a bargaining chip.

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

“Here, the Russians will have to take this territory to all prices and pay all their strength there, while we give everything we have to keep it,” said the sergeant. Oleksandr, 46, leader of a Ukrainian infantry squad. “We support, we destroy, destroy, destroy, so much that it is difficult to understand it. “

He and other soldiers, asking to be known through a first call or a sign of appeal according to the army protocol, said the Infantry attack of North Korea had made the battles much more fierce than before.

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