The agony came in waves as the wounded Ukrainian soldier in the back of the ambulance slipped in and out of consciousness.
The driver, hurtling past cratered fields on roads thick with mud, was racing to escape Russian artillery fire north of the city of Avdiivka, while hoping he was not spotted by drones.
“They are just razing everything to the ground,” said the driver, Seagull, using only his call-sign in accordance with military protocol.
Ukrainian forces are resisting furiously, while probing for openings in a southern counteroffensive and conducting river crossings near the southern port city of Kherson.
When Ukraine’s top military commander, Gen. Valery Zaluzhny, said recently that the war had reached a “stalemate”— with intense and exhausting battles yielding little territorial gains — it created an impression in some quarters of a war in stasis.
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