After repelling waves of Russian attempts to storm their small bunker in a cellar near an abandoned house, the enemy was on top of them. Vladyslav Molodykh, 39, whose call sign is Hammer. “They were shouting, ‘Surrender and you’ll live.’ There was no point in surrendering because they would have torn me apart.”It was around 10 a.m. on Dec. 14. Private Molodykh would emerge from the freezing, cramped cellar 41 harrowing days later — alone but alive. The battle for the bunker in Avdiivka, in eastern Ukraine, was only a small part of one of dozens of clashes raging along a 600-mile front.

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Persons: ”, Vladyslav Molodykh, “, Molodykh Organizations: Ukrainian Locations: Avdiivka, Ukraine, Russia