Trostyanets, in Ukraine’s northeast, was supposed to be a mere speed bump for the Russian military, which occupied it for roughly 30 days before the Ukrainian military retook it on March 26.
“TROSTYANETS, Ukraine — The last three Russian soldiers in this Ukrainian town are in the morgue, their uniforms bloodied and torn. The first one’s face is frozen in pain. The second has his wooden pipe in his lap. The third is stuffed in his sleeping bag.These dead are not all that was left behind in Trostyanets, a strategically located town in the country’s northeast, where Russian forces fled several days ago in the face of an orchestrated Ukrainian assault. A monthlong Russian occupation reduced much of the town to rubble, a decimated landscape of mangled tank hulks, snapped trees and rattled but resilient survivors. ...”
Vadym takes a selfie with his wife Irina and three sons Oleg, 13, Boris, 8, and Anton, 2, in Prague on March 26. The most valuable thing Vadym says he brought with him is a portable charger — to help stay connected.
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