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New York Times: Life in Ukraine’s Trenches: Gearing Up for a Spring Offensive
In a thicket of trees between two vast farm fields, a plywood trapdoor built into the forest floor opened to reveal stairs leading underground.
Inside was a subterranean bunker, cut into the black earth, where Ukrainian troops from a mortar unit awaited coordinates for their next target. The men squeezed past one another down a shoulder-width dirt corridor lit with LED strips, staring at tablet computers showing a live drone feed of the terrain outside. Blast waves from artillery shells and rockets shook the bunker, and a radio crackled with a warning of incoming Russian helicopters.
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Update #1: Ukraine could launch its offensive against Russia any moment. Here’s what’s waiting (CNN)
Update #2: Ukraine signals counteroffensive is near: What to know about the coming fight (The Hill)
WNU Editor: The West is getting impatient. It looks like they are pushing Ukraine to start their counteroffensive sooner rather than later …. Ukraine has received 98% of promised combat vehicles: NATO chief (Al Jazeera).