Perryman has yet to come face to face with a real foot soldier. The Russians keep their distance, and so far, the closest he’s got to seeing one was a brief, rustling presence in some bushes a few hundred metres away, gone before he could train his rifle on it.
Any Ukrainian units setting foot on the islands attract constant artillery fire, directed in by nosy Russian drones that buzz overhead like giant marsh mosquitoes. ‘Their artillery crews are pretty bloody good,’ says Perryman. ‘Iraq does not compare to this, it’s far more intense.’
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/iraq-does-not-compare-to-this-the-british-soldier-on-ukraines-front-line/
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