This video grab taken from footage released by the Russian Emergency Ministry on January 19, 2024 shows rescuers working to extinguish a fire at an oil depot following a drone attack in Klintsy, Bryansk region, amid the ongoing Russian-Ukrainian conflict. The strike was the second on a Russian oil depot in as many days, after Kyiv claimed another attack on an oil storage facility in the northern Leningrad region on January 18, 2024. Photo by Handout / RUSSIAN EMERGENCY MINISTRY / AFP
“I’m going to tell you the truth,” says Vanya, a Ukrainian soldier serving in a reconnaissance unit fighting alongside marines on the east bank of the Dnipro river in southern Ukraine. “The situation is deplorable.”
His damning assessment follows months of daring raids into enemy territory by Ukrainian forces last autumn to establish a tenuous bridgehead deep in the southern Kherson region. Under the cover of darkness, troops zipped across the river to inflict damage on Russian units and provide one of few bright spots since Ukraine’s much-vaunted summer counteroffensive ended in failure.
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