How Ukraine’s Volunteers Are Beating Fear And Seeing War As Just Another Day at Work

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. …

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