Watch - Into the Unforgiving Frozen Earth of the Donbass Trenches

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Here we see a man doing yeoman's work, as he complains bitterly as he attacks the earth.
It would be humorous, if life and death did not hang in the balance on the Donbass front..

When war becomes static, the trenches, tunnels, and fortifications develop on both sides.

During WWII, Germans complained of having to use explosives to dig the simplest foxhole.
The Ruso-Ukraine ground was simply too frozen in wintertime.

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