The body of a Russian soldier, dusted in a light coating of snow, lay next to an armored vehicle near Kharkiv, Ukraine, on Friday as Ukraine’s military was waging a fierce battle to push Russian forces back from the city a day after a vicious fight in Ukraine’s second largest city.
The empty shells of burned-out Russian armored personnel carriers and a Ukrainian police jeep littered the roadway, along with the scattered belongings of their former occupants — water bottles, a soldier’s boot, camouflage clothing. The position was held, as of Friday, by a group of lightly armed Ukrainian soldiers who had hastily dug trenches into the wet mud beside the road, diving into them periodically when the artillery boom was especially loud.
Culled from NY TIMES.
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