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"We can fit 12 men inside this steel box," says Pit. "When the shelling starts we stay safe, then we come out and fire back from these trenches." Pit - his nom de guerre - is a commander in the 25th Territorial Defense Battalion Kyivska Rus, a volunteer unit created in the Kyiv Oblast and now part of Ukraine's armed forces.

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