Drones have become a serious problem for Yurii, a commander in a village just outside the city of Bakhmut, who says his soldiers are coming under attack 24 hours a day.
When soldiers in Ukraine's 93rd Mechanised Brigade do their work, most tasks are performed under trees.Members of the brigade's Oril Company stack their munitions under a stand of gnarly-looking trees. Their mortars are hidden in the bushes.Best to try and look like an ordinary civilian if the Russians are watching from the sky."Quadcopters , it's quadcopters. They can see us. Everything we do needs to be masked," says Yurii, the commander of Oril Company.
A former carpenter, Yurii is now military commander in a village just outside the eastern city of Bakhmut.Drones have become a serious headache, he said, passing information onto Russian gunners.Yurii says Oril Company comes under attack 24 hours a dayHowever, the 93rd Brigade also has drones and when the company commander was radioed a set of coordinates, his men ran over to the bushes to retrieve the mortar.
"Vuha!" shouted a serviceman, warning everyone to cover their ears, as he dropped one of two mortar shells down the tube.A minute or two later, we received the Russians' reply. A tank shell descended with a sickening whine, crashing into the earth several hundred metres from our position.Like a game of hide and seek, we took refuge in a nearby underground bunker as a succession of Russian shells screeched through the vicinity.
Yurii showed me a bulky 50-calibre machine gun that his team had ripped from the top of a Russian tank."We have American, Romanian, Czech, Bulgarian and Russian stuff. It's multinational, but we have a lot of Russian , they're like trophies, but we prefer Czech or American."Western countries, like the US and UK, have provided Ukraine with billions of dollars worth of military hardware, but they are still outgunned by the Russians.Still, human motivation is a different story.
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