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Understanding the fighting in the Donbas

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The Battle for the Donbas - What Would It Feel Like for a Conscript?

Am, one of the qualities of the battle for the donbas at the moment is that it seems to be incredibly fierceand and vicious fight in the region. Could you give a sense of what that would feel like to a sort of normal infantryman or potentially a conscript? How would they know where to get their orders from? Would they be aware of the of the greater strategy at play? What might it be like for the soldiers out there? Ye, so most of the time ar operations, an combatis fairly dull. Combatis is large periods of not a lot happening, punctuated by short, short moments of absolute terror. It's amazing that you can find humour in these

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