Winter weather can make concealment and targeting more difficult for troops. Emanuele Satolli for The Wall Street Journal
With Western-supplied uniforms and ‘trench candles,’ Ukrainian soldiers seek a cold-weather advantage
Winter weather can make concealment and targeting more difficult for troops. Emanuele Satolli for The Wall Street Journal
BAKHMUT, Ukraine—In the battle to keep warm, Ukrainian infantryman Kyrylo Molchanov has turned to “trench candles”—empty food cans packed with cardboard—to heat his front-line dugout.
With Russia and Ukraine fighting through the winter, keeping Ukrainian soldiers warm could become a competitive advantage for Kyiv.
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