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Stuart Ramsay

Letter from Ukraine: ‘The sounds of rockets firing and landing chills you to the core’

Stuart Ramsay on the frontine in Ukraine

(Picture: Dominique Van Heerden)

There was a change, something about the eyes, something about their gestures. Ukrainian soldiers who had displayed remarkable bravura for weeks now, seemed suddenly less enthusiastic about life – being bombed for two days does that. Especially when there is more to come.

In the trenches of the frontline in eastern Ukraine, cold, wet, and muddy, it’s difficult to imagine how things are going to get worse.

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