Deep in the eastern Ukrainian forest, this group of volunteers waits as Russia's military creeps closer
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Maxym is waiting. For just over a month, he and his comrades have been sleeping in earthen dugouts, eating from cans warmed over campfires, and following news of the Russian military advancing just kilometers away.
"Of course they are coming," Maxym says. "There are far more of them than us."
They're dug deep into this dense eastern Ukrainian forest, not far from Slovyansk, and are part of Ukraine's territorial defense -- non-professional soldiers, most of whom signed up in the opening days of Russia's February invasion.
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