Group escapes without casualties after being targeted with cluster munitions. Read more at straitstimes.com.
NEAR BAKHMUT, Ukraine - Shovels in hand and helmets on heads, Ukrainian soldiers jumped out of a military truck and prepare to dig a trench near Bakhmut, inThe team leader gave instructions to the 30 or so diggers: “You have to dig from there to there,” he said, pointing to a few dozen metres of green grass damp from the night’s rain.Russia invaded Ukraine in February last year.
But the trench-diggers didn’t even have time to start before the shrill sound of a rocket ripped through the air, exploding less than 50m away.Twenty or so explosions in a row followed, close by or more distant.A few soldiers stood up, but quickly fall back when two more explosions sounded.When calm eventually returned, the team leader ordered the soldiers to run back towards the truck, parked about 50m away under cover of trees.The soldiers ran to the vehicle, some with shovels still in hand.
The Russians “may have seen our group. The projectiles fell just where many people had gathered,” he said, adding that it was very likely that the diggers had been spotted by a Russian observation drone, despite the low, grey skies on Sunday.
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