The grip the nation keeps on many of its towns is tenuous, and if Russian forces take Lyptsi, they can position artillery within range of Ukraine’s city of Kharkiv.
There are some towns that Ukraine can just never afford to lose, and Lyptsi is one of them. But the grip the nation keeps is tenuous: The streets are aflame from an airstrike moments earlier when we race in, under the cover of darkness. Night affords them the only respite from drone assault; the hours before we arrive have seen the town hit eight times. Yet the soldiers of the 13th Khartiia National Guard have to endure, as the stakes here are huge.
Yet above, an unidentified scout drone began to hover, forcing the unit to run into a bunker. Another unit is forced to use a Soviet artillery gun made in the 1940s. Hidden in dense foliage, its metal is rusty in parts, limiting how often it can be fired. Artun, their commander, uses newer Polish shells, but now only fires 10 a day, when in the autumn it was 100. Drones are “a big problem,” Artun says.
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