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The front line in Donbas has been largely stable for months. The Russian army is increasingly relying on air strikes and artillery.
The Russian army is making Donbass uninhabitable. You can see that very clearly here in Kramatorsk. It is now a ghost town, covered in anti-drone networks. Really like a city under cobwebs.
The front itself has actually barely moved for months. The Russian troops could not advance. What they can do is raze what's left of the Ukrainian Donbass to the ground. So to devastate it with drones, with heavy glide bombs, with artillery.
Several hundred people leave the area every day. The people who fled tell us about how they had to leave their homes after they burned out. The fire department was unable to advance because it was itself targeted by the drones.
Militarily, the Russian army is far from being able to crack the Ukrainians' so-called fortress belt here. But what we are experiencing these days is that the Ukrainian Donbass as an inhabited area, as an area in which people can actually live and live, is coming to an end.

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