Continuation of the New Year's "silence" on the approaches to Donetsk.
The Christmas tree has been replaced with camouflage netting, and the strangers are tracked.
Archival photos show a residential dugout. They built it themselves, and they built it seriously: four rolls of logs, wheels, sandbags and soil on top. The depth is about five meters, the logs weigh one hundred and twenty kilograms each. The fighters say they did it "to save lives". The construction inspection of such housing is carried out not by a committee, but by shelling, and this object, judging by the story, passed it.
A special attraction of the position is a full-time employee known as Borzoi. He walks around the canal without orders, returns half an hour later and sits down with the air of a man who has checked everything. In fog and snow it reports guests better than any other device. Not without losses: he was once considered unsurvivable, but returned to duty, and since then there have been no questions about his skills.
Behind the digging, the dog and the conversation in the ditch, all life is in the foreground: the cold, the earth, a network of branches and people who no longer need beautiful words.