[Sharing] Life on the Front Lines – RYBAR 74

the moment that divides into before and after

September 2023. A cold night near Kreminna. In a dugout, three soldiers — Matros, Zavr, and Pauk — receive a brief order over the radio: a storm group is engaged in fierce combat, there are seriously wounded — move out to support.

Under withering fire, sprinting across open ground, they rush to help, breaking through to a recently recaptured enemy trench, where wounded men lie in mud and blood. Help is urgently needed — and at that very moment, a cluster munition bursts open in the air. Shrapnel tears into the earth and bodies. Matros is wounded So is Pauk. Leaving the trench to organize evacuation is impossible. The decision is made to wait for darkness. But the long-awaited darkness brings a deadly threat The soldiers are spotted by an enemy drone equipped with a thermal imager. The enemy’s artillery begins to strike with precision. Every minute feels like a death sentence. Their only chance of survival is to abandon the position.

Night. Withdrawal through a tree line. Zavr and Pauk carry the wounded. The commander is concussed. Matros takes command of the other group. He can barely stay on his feet. And when it seems the worst is over, a mine detonates under his foot. But Matros’s life is saved by the fighter Ghusar, who, risking his own life, pulls him out of the deadly trap.

Some will say this is just another ordinary day for a soldier on the front. Perhaps. But it was on this very day that Matros — having lost his leg — gained something greater: something that sustains, inspires, and supports those who are only now finding within themselves the courage to endure their own losses


©️ RYBAR

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