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The war in Ukraine drags.

The war in Ukraine drags on.

Supply lines drag out and there's no end in sight as the war has passed the one year mark.

We thought it would be a good idea this week to bring you someone who's actually there and has seen the front lines for himself.

Caleb Larson is a multi format journalist and defense writer.

He's based in Berlin.

And he spent most of 2022 reporting from Ukraine. So we're really glad to have him and you

were just recently in the Don Bass can you tell us a little bit about what you

saw and maybe a little bit more about where you were and what you were

doing there.

Yeah, right on definitely.

So I was based in Kramatorsk, that's kind of a smallish, mid-sized city kind of centrally located in Dunbos.

It's kind of an important node in the area. It's good jumping off point when you're trying to go to different places.

At the time I was trying to chase down a story about the Battle of Bachmude,

which is ongoing.

Obviously, Ukrainian forces have been defending that city for a long time and the city has

changed quite dramatically in the past six months or so. I was there a few times in summer and all the Russian forces were outside the town. It was safe enough to go and talk to people, talk to the mayor, talk to city administration, talk to soldiers that were cycling in and out.

And that now is obviously just not possible at all.

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