IAN BIRRELL: A burst of machine-gun fire echoed over the fields, followed by a strange buzzing over our heads as we trudged along a path through a cluster of destroyed summer houses.
Sergiy said the trenches and lookout posts dotting the hillside had been dug before his unit's arrival last September by troops who were forced by constant attacks to leave the safety of nearby houses. Roots and wires poke through gaps in the corrugated steel lining.
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