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But first.

We return today to Ukraine. We return today to Ukraine.

In recent days, a front has reopened in the war with Russian forces making

sharp advances again near Harquiv in the country's north. In the eastern region known as the Dombass contested since 2014 the fighting continues and continues to evolve.

We're standing in the middle of a village near

Constantine of Kerr and it's a beautiful sunny day and Chris Lockwood and I

just standing by a truck which brought us here and the sounds you hear is there is a

air-rate siren for the glided bones, a bit of artillery shelling and a cock-roll. The wind and the trees, it's both the colleague and totally surreal.

Arcotti Ostrowski is the economists Russia and Eastern Europe editor. He recently travelled to the region

with our Europe editor Chris Lockwood to get a measure of the morale of troops on those

front lines. So on this trip we had a chance that we travelled to Don Bass to the town of

Constantinevka that's near Kramatorsk and it's very near the front line

the most active part of the front in Chasefia, which is fewer than 10 kilometers from where we were and we could hear the booms in the distance pretty much all the time and

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