Jonathan Beale of the BBC reported from inside Slovyansk, one of four cities making up Ukraine’s “fortress belt” — a heavily reinforced defensive line in the eastern Donetsk region still under Ukrainian control.
The town has become almost uninhabitable and has been subjected to heavy fire from Russian drones, missiles and glide bombs.
A Ukrainian drone unit, calling itself “Peaky Blinders” after the cult BBC series, is tasked with intercepting Russian aerial threats.
Kyiv is being pressured to relinquish the fortress cities, which are pivotal to ongoing peace‑negotiations between Ukraine, Russia and the United States in Abu Dhabi after a nine‑month pause.
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