RT by @StevensHelga: "On 19 November at 7:20 pm, I received the notice to prepare for the mission. The mission was to go to an outpost (the furthest point controlled by Ukraine) to rotate the soldiers who had been in combat and in those positions for a long time. Around 8:30 pm, the team and I got out of the vehicles, because we were approaching the outpost and it was dangerous to move further with the vehicles.

The weather was extremely difficult. Due to the lack of light, the extremely poor weather conditions, the rough terrain (please imagine that every forest in the contact area is being knocked to the ground by artillery, so it is an apocalyptic picture), the resulting pits caused by the continuous blast of Russian shells and the weight of the equipment, some of the team got injured.

Because of this, and because other colleagues were injured, I was the only one who could continue the mission. I was obliged by order, but also out of a sense of duty, to carry it out so that at least one or two of those in the outpost could be temporarily relieved of the mission to hold positions. I covered most of the distance to the outpost around 02:20 am, when I took shelter in the basement of a house in #Andriivka (south of #Bakhmut). On the surface, the ground was completely destroyed.

I rested for a while and at 05:00 am I was on the move again, towards my final goal. I passed many shattered bodies and many anti-tank and anti-personnel mines. At 06:00 am we reached the final destination, the outpost I learned about in the mission description. For the first few hours I got used to the new location: I got an idea of where the Russians were shooting from, I understood the position I was in. Together with the people in the outpost, we entered a new mission, we split into two teams. One team continues to improve and fortify the position, the other provides protection and is ready to open f…

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