Ukrainian soldier says ‘It’s a hard time for us’

Andrii Shadrin is a 28-year-old Ukrainian corporal who serves in a unit that repairs and replaces equipment damaged on Ukraine’s eastern front. He tells host Carolyn Beeler how he was caught in an ambush this weekend, and why new Western military aid hasn’t halted the Russian offensive west of Donetsk.

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