Ukrainian artist-turned-soldier uses mud and ash from the front lines to paint nature, war

Oleg Bazylewicz was an artist and writer before Russia's invasion of Ukraine. While in the trenches, he uses ash and mud from the front lines to paint.

That all changed one rain-soaked day, in sodden terrain, when the 59-year-old discovered he could use mud too, after trying to wash it off his hands and boots.

"When I started to wash, trying to wash my hands of this mud, I understood that it was not mud. It was paint, actually, because the adhesion to hands, to space, to boots, to everything was really very high," Bazylewicz said, speaking in English.