Dug in amid the rolling hills west of Bakhmut, the tanks of the Ukrainian army’s 28th Mechanized Brigade are helping to hold the line against a growing Russian offensive.
They are battered and bruised by nearly a year of combat, but despite their age they are cherished by their crews. The young tank commander, who goes by the call sign David, sees his unit’s role as crucial in holding the line, and preventing a Russian advance towards the straggling industrial town of Konstantinyvka. “We just work against them. If we don’t, they will come closer and we will lose our houses and families. We stand here to let people peacefully live in their houses.
These will be critical days and weeks in defending the roughly 40% of Donetsk region still in Ukrainian hands. The question is whether Ukrainian forces can hold their current positions – before being reinforced by the arrival of scores of Western tanks, which could take up to two months. Asked whether CNN could film a “trophy tank” that the 28th seized from the Russians, its crew laugh and say: “In return for an Abrams.
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