NOVOMYKHAILIVKA, Ukraine—In the woods outside this front-line town in eastern Ukraine, a battle-worn unit of Ukrainian soldiers have hunkered down for the winter.
The troops live and fight sometimes only a few hundred yards across no man’s land from their enemies, a combined force of pro-Russian separatists and Russian regulars.
Some of the Ukrainian soldiers here have been fighting since March 2014. They belong to the Aidar Battalion, a former paramilitary unit now incorporated into Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense as a volunteer combat unit.
Ukrainian civilian volunteer Edward Kulinich, left, speaks with Moscow. (Photos: Nolan Peterson/The Daily Signal)
After nearly three years of constant …read more
Source: The Daily Signal
