From a muddied hideout on the edge of Kharkiv a Ukrainian officer peers at the horizon, tracing the Russian lines with his outstretched finger. On the left the land is in Ukrainian hands, he says. To the right the Russians are dug in, hammering Ukraine's second city with constant bombardment. He stands at "point zero": the spot where the two sides meet in combat.

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