Ukraine’s front lines are unforgivingly brutal, and soldiers are often injured or killed just rotating in and out of their own trench systems, a Western commander leading a training program for Ukrainian soldiers told Business Insider.
“We hear that Ukrainian forces take quite a few casualties infiltrating and exfiltrating out of their own trench systems because the front has been static for a very long time,” said Brigadier Atle Molde, the commander of Task Force Legio, a Norway-led multinational effort to train Ukrainian soldiers on NATO soil.
Swarms of drones overhead gather intelligence and attack, making any movement a risk. Ukrainian…
