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Standing guard outside the shelled-out Avdiyivka apartment block that has become a makeshift triage station, Serhiy scans the sky and listens nervously for the sound of artillery fire.

“It’s like Aleppo,” says the Ukrainian soldier, referring to the war-ravaged Syrian city, as his unit works through sub-zero temperatures and freezing rain to ferry supplies to the emergency medical depot.

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