Russian forces have unleashed a ferocious barrage of fire against the border town of Vovchansk, using a combination of airstrikes, gliding bombs, armed drones and heavy artillery.
Watching a live drone feed, it was possible to make out three people running down a street in a frontline town in northeastern Ukraine. 'Are they Russians?' I asked a Ukrainian soldier, who was also on the ground in Vovchansk and was showing us the footage from a secret location as we spoke to him via video link from outside the town. 'Yes, yes,' said Denys, 42, the commander of a reconnaissance unit. 'They come in groups like this of three to five soldiers.
Denys had been a senior police officer and then a lawyer before Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Then, like many civilians, he volunteered to serve to defend his country and has been fighting ever since. But, in an unusual move for a member of the military, Denys has publicly expressed frustration at what he believes was a failure by his own side to ensure Ukraine's northeastern border with Russia was better defended by landmines and fortifications.
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