343 days on the front line: Ukrainian officer’s long deployment underscores Kyiv’s manpower issues | CNN
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Infantry officer Oleksiy just spent 343 days on the front line, in what his brigade believes is one of the longest combat deployments for a Ukrainian officer.
Ukrainian infantry officer Oleksiy, who spent 343 days without leaving the front line.
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Infantry officer Oleksiy just spent 343 days without leaving the front line, in what his battalion believes is one of the longest combat deployments for an officer in the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
His lengthy deployment, in the woodlands between settlements in the eastern Zaporizhzhia region, underscores Ukraine’s severe lack of manpower as the war drags on after more than four years.
