A patrol of Russian soldiers is struggling to storm a Ukrainian trench in Donbass. The defenders holed up in a small bunker. And the attackers first shoot into the loopholes, then they throw in several hand grenades: the drone footage shows this cross-section of the fighting and is reminiscent of the battles of the marines in the Pacific, such as the attack on the Japanese bunker in the film “The Thin Red Line”. described by Terrence Malick. In fact, many soldiers fight to the last, often out of fear that surrender would mean death: often, especially in the Donbass, the prisoners are not spared. This scene does not show soldiers from the Moscow army, but militia officers from the pro-Russian Republic of Donestk who have been fighting the Ukrainians since 2014 and are behaving as if they were in a civil war.
Curated by Gianluca Di Feo