Artem and his fellow soldiers have been living in trenches and bunkers near Ukraine’s southeastern frontlines for months. Despite the regular thud of artillery and the whirring of a helicopter overhead, they have lost the fear they once felt.
Artem is a 30-year-old volunteer from a small town near Chernihiv, in the north of the country that came under siege early on in Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine more than a year ago and was briefly occupied. Currently, the war ebbs and flows for his unit located close to Russian positions. …