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Ukraine war: Under the threat of a nuclear strike and a long looming winter, indomitable Ukrainian spirit holds
Torske is a chaotic, muddled mayhem reeking of panic and fear, but pockets of humanity remain. After all, both sides have lost young men to a war they never chose to fight in. Special correspondent @AlexCrawfordSky Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player There are a quite shocking number of Russian corpses left in the wake of the Ukrainian blitz on their eastern front. Kyiv's troops are moving so fast and methodically, there's no time to collect the enemy's dead. It's a grim illustration of Ukraine's current battlefield successes. As we followed their route through the village of Yampil and on to Torske on the edge of the Luhansk border, we saw scores of burnt military vehicles and scorched forest trees, which highlighted the ferocity of the battle. There are repeated signs the Ukrainians have ambushed their enemy, often it seems, laying in wait for them and attacking them from the front as the Russians try to flee to their defensive positions deeper into the Donba