James Waterhouse
For months, Oleksiy has been fighting to hold a thin strip of land surrounded by Russian forces.
Now he’s been rushed to defend Moscow’s onslaught in the Kharkiv region, like many other soldiers scrambled from other parts of Ukraine’s front line.
It’s a redeployment symptomatic of this war’s new focus.
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We’ve been in touch with Oleksiy for the past nine months. Now from north-eastern Ukraine, he’s described the difference in fighting as “huge”.
The ‘forgotten’ mission
Despite limited supplies, minimal gains and mounting losses, Kyiv insists its southern foothold on the occupied eastern bank of Dnipro River is still significant.
It’s where Oleksiy had been fighting for the past eight months. We’ve agreed not to reveal his real name.
We last spoke with him six months ago, where he described the conditions on the swampy riverside as “hell”.
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