Brutal fighting grips eastern Ukraine

There’s no letup in the grueling battles raging in Ukraine’s Donbas region. Reporter Volodymyr Solohub is in Kharkiv and has been venturing into villages that were recently under Russian occupation. Solohub tells The World’s Marco Werman the story of one Ukrainian soldier he met who has been shaken by the unrelenting fighting.

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