The underground war between Russia and Ukraine
This is ghastly
nytimes.com ↗Ukraine russia natural gas pipesUkrainian troops cannot stand up in the pipes, which are less than four feet in diameter. Yet they spend weeks at a time inside them, fighting Russians with guns and grenades, ferrying out fellow soldiers injured or killed at the front, and carrying in critical supplies. With drones stalking the battlefield above, this is the future of war, Ukrainian strategists say.
As I approached one of the pipes, the smell of residual gas made my head spin. Soldiers caked in brown dust constantly popped out from or disappeared into the tunnel on the rusty electric buggies that roll through the underground network.