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'It allows us to do our job': Ukrainian artillery team buoyed by fresh ammunition after costly wait on frontline
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
Sat in a makeshift shelter on the outskirts of a frontline town in eastern Ukraine, the soldier - callsign “Zaur” - shared some rare, good news: new ammunition appeared to be arriving.
Ukrainian troops have been losing ground in the Donbas and now face a reopened front in the northeastern region of Kharkiv as they run short of ammunition and weapons following delays in the delivery of munitions from their allies, in particular the United States.
Should the hilltop town fall, it would give the invaders access to higher ground, enabling them to target artillery fire onto a wider area and putting cities in the remaining parts of the Donbas that are still under Ukrainian control at greater risk.
In a sign of the battle moving closer, soldiers had just finished digging a deep, narrow trench, which ran from the already-sheltered location of their self-propelled artillery gun - a 2S1 Gvozdika that fires 122mm rounds.
In recent weeks, though, they appear to have been edging closer - with a Ukrainian military medical stabilisation point forced to pull back to a city called Kostiantynivka.
As we walked - quickly - across some open ground between two patches of tree cover, one of the Sky News team thought they could hear a self-exploding attack drone in flight.
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