Their commander, a breezily confident 31-year-old named Levan, gathered his squad and waited for the bang of outgoing artillery. This is the conflict in Ukraine now: a pitiless artillery war, the kind perhaps not seen since the days of endless trenches and gouged terrain that marked World War I. We need a thousand," Serhei said, referring to the high mobility artillery rocket systems, which the U.S. recently provided to Ukrainian troops. Buildings where Ukrainian troops had bunkered were perforated by shrapnel from Grad rockets, their fuselage and fins still sticking out of the asphalt. Soldiers flagged cars driving down the P66 highway, warning motorists of heavy shelling near the main checkpoint out of the city.

Source: Los Angeles Times June 17, 2022 19:03 UTC