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Globe and Mail: On the Russian border, Ukrainian troops wait for Putin’s big push

Published April 14, 2021. Updated April 14 at 3:06 am

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky walks with servicemen along the frontline positions with Russia-backed separatists near Zolote, Luhansk region, eastern Ukraine.

Walking through wooden-walled trenches dug along Ukraine’s northeastern border, Valeriy Vavryniuk, a colonel in the country’s Border Guards, brushes aside a question about whether the massing of Russian troops on the other side means war is coming. “War is already here,” he says solemnly. “The war started seven years ago.”