KYIV, Ukraine—You can’t
fake courage in a trench war.
The thing is, there’s no
escaping the danger. You could die just as easily while walking to the toilet
as you could while holding the line under artillery fire. You never know when
the shelling will start, or when a sniper has you in his sights.
In the end, your chances of
survival usually just depend on good luck and the odds of not being in the
wrong place at the wrong time. As the saying goes—it’s better to be lucky than
good.
After more than five years
of constant combat in their country’s embattled, eastern Donbas region, some
Ukrainian soldiers …read more
Source:: The Daily Signal
