Ingot The car turns to the Kuhmurainen road and stops. The quiet jockey steps out to put his jeep on the roof electronic harassment system.
We are on our way to the back of the forefront north of Karkova. All risks are minimized. Cell phones are already in flight mode, and now this precaution.
– A week ago, the droon exploded on the same path, the driver explains and shows the car’s windshield.
The windshield is through the middle.
The journey continues. Many cars would not withstand such a rumble on a bumpy road. We have to hope that this car will last, as the center of standing in the middle is an easy destination for Russian droons.
The lights of the city of Belgorod in the Russian side are reflected over the field to the sky. On the other side, the lights of the second largest city in Ukraine are shining. We are only ten kilometers from the Russian border and the nearest Russian troops.
Arriving in a dugout in sack darkness
After about half an hour’s drive, we arrive in the wooded area. We step out of the car, is sack dark. Even a cellphone flashlight should not be lit. It alone could reveal us to the Russians.
We pull the door to the side of the blanket and descend into the dugout, which is a couple of meters deep. Two Ukrainian soldiers receive us.
– Can you be cheap for tea and Uzbekistan? Rock-The soldier who uses the fighting name asks.
Maybe a three -square -meter dugout has three bunk beds and a small gas stove. The walls and ceiling are lined with white plastic, which is glued to children’s wishes. The tight dugout is warm and surprisingly cozy.
One of the soldiers is the battle name, Bilyj That is, “white”. Roks and Bilyj’s mission is to be ordered to protect your fighting friends with a rocket launcher.
The enemy’s droons are in constant fear. Roks and Bilyj ask the radio “weather above the area” at regular intervals.
– The sky is clean at the moment, but be careful, the sound from the radio is responsible.
A moment ago, the Russian Orlan intelligence was flying over the area.
“We are constantly being searched,” Roks says, and says there are tremendous droons in the area.
Once hit the station. Soldiers point to the end of the grape shooting from the floor. The projectile came through the roof. As a miracle trade, the metallic part hit the beds and there was no personal injury. The roof is now patched on a plywood board.
The technological race between Russians and Ukrainians is hot. The Ukrainians are qualitatively above, but Russians are increasingly using fiber -optic indoons, which are known to have not yet been invented by the control mechanism.
Bilyj introduces a device to capture enemy droon view:
The device described in a video in a video gives you the opportunity to react to the enemy’s attack, but in the worst case, it can allow for a situation where you will follow the last moments of her life from the enemy’s point of view.
This is how soldiers think about war and the future
When talking to Roks and Bilyj, there is no impression that Ukraine would now have to agree to any agreement to end the war. According to them, the shortage of soldiers is real, but there is no immediate shortage of weapons. The war has become more and more into airplane war, and Ukraine makes a lion’s share of its droons.
Neither believes in the ceasefire. The only way to go peace goes through power, Bilyj says.
According to him, power does not only mean fleet and staff, but also the spirit of fighting.
“We will definitely win,” Bilyj says as Roks compass next.
What about the unpredictability of the United States affected the spirit of fighting?
Roks points out that the United States is still an ally of Ukraine. He finally believes that Trump will notice that there is no trust in Putin.
However, Trump’s decision to break the reconnaissance a week immediately affected the activities of Roks and Bilyj, as the maps changed. For example, many in Ukraine accuses the United States of the loss of the Kursk region, as Russia took back most of the area during the intelligence break.
And do men believe that Ukraine will be able to conquer the occupied areas?
– I want to believe it, Bilyj says after a moment of silence.
Men do not know how to recover, but they are sure that Zelenskyi refuses to surrender the areas to the Russians.
– Why have all the sacrifices been made if the areas are only given to Russia? After all, everything would have been useless, Bilyj says.
Another motivator is their own children. The father of six children Bilyj hopes that his sacrifice will have a little effect on the future of his children.
– I don’t want them to experience this again. That’s why I’m here, Bilyj says.
One thing is certain for the two: they never forgive the Russians. Roks suggests that the Ukrainians collect the ruins of the villages and cities destroyed by Russia after the war and collect them on the border so that Russia is not even visible.
Then the soldiers wear the equipment and take the rocket launcher. We descend from the muddy road to the pit where the gun is hidden. The light of the flashlights is red.
The rocket launcher is fully charged, with twelve rockets awaiting a launch cabin.
– First we shoot a couple and the whole package is followed. It’s beautiful, says Roks.