By defending their ruins, Ukrainian forces are slowing costly Russian offensive efforts to extend Moscow's control over the entirety of eastern Ukraine's industrial Donbas region.
VUHLEDAR, Ukraine — The murky water oh so slowly trickles from the filthy drainpipe into her grimy container — the ticking seconds ramping up the risk that Emilia Budskaya could lose life or limb to Gaping gashes from deadly shrapnel in the courtyard walls around her testify to the dangers of being outside — exposed and without the body armor that Ukrainian soldiers defending Vuhledar wear when they venture from their bunkers.
But Budskaya and her daughter need water to cling on and to survive, to eke out another day in the ruins. And so they wait — tick, tick, tick — for the container to fill, for Budskaya to then pour the water into plastic bottles and — tick, tick, tick — for her to then start the process again until their bottles are filled.
Picking their way through the debris and mud, they carry their bounty back to the dark basement that now passes for their home.Brad Paisley recorded a song that features Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. On the largely static front line between Ukrainian and Russian forces that stretches over hundreds of kilometers — from the Black Sea in the south to Ukraine’s northeastern border with Russia — Vuhledar has become one of the deadliest hotspots. It has joined
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