This is the Guardian.

Today, on the Ukrainian front line, where fears are growing that Vladimir Putin is preparing to invade

and bullets are already flying. Before we start a warning, today's episode includes swearing.

I was with a brigade from the Ukrainian army at a front line position in eastern Ukraine, just a few

condomers away from Dignets, which has been rebel held since 2014. I arrived in Avdivka with my

cameraman, Claudia Urchenko, an interpreter, Alicia. I mean, I speak Russian, but I don't really

understand Ukrainian. Luke Harding, a senior Guardian foreign correspondent, has just come back from

eastern Ukraine. It's a war zone and has been since Russia invaded and snatched territory in 2014.

We parked up inside what had once been a sort of industrial warehouse. There were military

vehicles all around, got out, saw various kind of groups of soldiers and walked towards their

main, forward, de facto, base. There were dogs yapping, passed a couple of the trees on the left,

all around the ruined remains of trees which were not exactly dead, but had been clearly sheld.

Something's been happening here over the past few weeks. Tens of thousands of Russian soldiers and

military equipment are massing, not far from where Luke is standing on the Ukrainian border.

President Vladimir Putin says, what's happening in Ukraine is a genocide against Russian speakers,

language that many fear is laying the groundwork for a second invasion. One of the people I met at

the base was Lieutenant Ivan Skurotovsky. We are the individual country with borders and nobody can

take a piece of it. Few of the soldiers were sort of reluctant to talk about the human cost of this

conflict. They were talking about patriotism, about why they were doing it, why they were serving their

country. But Skurotovsky said that quite a few people from his previous brigade had been killed,

and his most recent one, there were five people who had died in the conflict from

sniper file or improvised explosive devices. Of course it's mine guys. It's your guys from my company.

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