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While drone pilots and soldiers have always been front and center, there’s another hero defending the country that has never gotten quite as much attention.

A vast expanse of wire, concrete, trenches, and gravel snaking across the entire Ukrainian front line, serving as one of the country’s most vital defenses against a full-blown Russian takeover.

This fortification belt in the Donetsk region is the top prize Putin wants to claim in negotiations to end the war, and he will undoubtedly go into his face-to-face meeting with Trump today hoping the American president will help him get it.

Of course, Putin hasn’t said this out loud. The Kremlin is pushing for control of the entire Donetsk region, which would push Ukrainian defenses out of the trench lines and into the open, making Ukraine much more vulnerable to future attack.

The Russian leader will almost certainly try to charm his American counterpart into putting more pressure on Ukraine to make this massive concession.

It’s a region the Russians have been unable to capture fully since 2014, thanks largely to the powerful system of fortifications there. At the current pace of the Russian army’s advance, it would take them many years to seize full control.

Giving this defense belt up would enable unhindered, rapid advances of Russian equipment and threaten Ukraine’s very existence as a state.

MARIANA LASTOVYRIA, TANYA NOVAKIVSKA, AND ANASTASIIA KRYVORUCHENKO
AUG 15

https://open.substack.com/pub/counteroffensive/p/p...

Not that Zelensky would ever agree to it, but let’s see if Trump emerges from Putin’s nether regions with this demand on his lips.

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