TARAMCHUK, Ukraine—The war is always there, even if the shooting stops for a while.
It is a quiet, overcast winter morning in the front-line village of Taramchuk in eastern Ukraine. Ukrainian soldiers from the National Guard’s Aidar Battalion mill about outside the abandoned homes within which they have garrisoned, tending to their morning chores.
The air is cold, but the wind makes it feel much worse. At places where the snow-covered fields blend with the overcast sky, the uniform whiteness conceals the horizon.
Clues to the war are subtle, but ever-present here, about 15 miles outside the separatist stronghold of Donetsk, and about …read more
Source: The Daily Signal
