VOA
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Most of the front lines in Ukraine's Donbas region have been static for months, with no advances and no retreats.
Soldiers in the trenches in Velyka Novosilka are less than 2 kilometers from Moscow’s troops.
"On a day like this, everything is calmer. Everything is less intense. They can't see what's happening here," one soldier says.
The sound of artillery has become routine for Sasha, a 36-year-old farmer who has been stationed for nine months in Velyka Novosilka.
Sasha says he joined the war when his stepfather died in combat at the start of the Russian invasion.
"We're constantly digging a deeper and deeper hole in here. We never know when they're going to hit us," he says.
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