KYIV, Ukraine—These days, it gets dark around 4 p.m. here in Ukraine’s capital city. The leaves are all gone from the trees, and the skies are often gray.
The Dnieper River hasn’t iced over yet. However, about 400 miles southeast of Kyiv in Ukraine’s embattled Donbas region, the front lines of Europe’s only ongoing land war have been frozen for years.
There, within a network of World War I-style trenches, Ukrainian troops are hunkering down in preparation for their sixth straight Continental winter at war. Since 2014, those soldiers have been engaged in daily combat against a combined force of Russian regulars, pro-Russian separatists, and foreign mercenaries.
With its daily artillery barrages, sniper potshots, and rampant land mines, the war hasn’t changed much over the years. Yet, a tepid thaw recently has occurred in Kyiv’s frosty relations with Moscow, offering Ukrainians a slight glimmer of hope that peace talks, which have been locked in an impasse for years, may now at last have a realistic path forward.
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