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Joshua Yaffa: "The toll on Ukrainian forces in recent weeks has been immense. The country’s President, Volodymyr Zelensky, has said that as many as a hundred soldiers are killed each day, and five hundred wounded. On a highway in the Donbas, I passed a convoy of trucks with signs that read “Cargo-200” on their windshields, military parlance for soldiers killed in action. Still, Ukraine’s military doesn’t lack soldiers; mass mobilization efforts and an influx of volunteers have doubled the ranks of the armed forces since February. The more pressing shortfalls, Tarnavskiy told me, are of experience and skill. “A lot of regular military personnel have been killed,” he said. “They are replaced by doctors and mechanics. We have manpower, but much of this core”—those with combat experience who could lead and motivate new recruits—“is either dead or wounded.”"

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June 7: Donbas region - Kramatorsk mayor Oleksandr Honcharenko.--- "Honcharenko had just come from a meeting with local military officials, who updated him on the situation at the front. Some positions were holding, others were vulnerable. The arrival of warm spring weather had dried the fields, which made it possible for tanks and other heavy armor to drive through; Ukrainian forces had dug a vast patchwork of trenches to slow the assault on Kramatorsk. I asked Honcharenko how long it might take for Russian forces to reach the city. “We shouldn’t expect any miracles,” he told me. “It’s clear that the longer this goes on, the more territory Russia will gain.” His voice was both jovial and grave. “Let me give you my professional opinion as mayor: if we don’t get heavy weapons in two or three weeks, we’re f***d.”"

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The Fight to Survive Russia’s Onslaught in Eastern Ukraine

The war has become, as one Ukrainian soldier put it, a game of “artillery Ping-Pong.”
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