The Shifting Front Lines of the Ukraine Conflict

At one point during a grueling 110-day tour in the obliterated frontline Ukrainian city of Toretsk, Dmytro, a soldier with Ukraine’s 100th Separate Mechanized Brigade, listened in to the radio traffic among Russian soldiers. “We repeatedly heard commanders’ orders to the stormtroopers: ‘Don’t take anyone alive’,” he said in an interview last month in Kramatorsk, about an hour’s drive to the northwest. He spoke on condition only his first name be used. “The fighting here was heavy, as you understand."…