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In a foxhole with the special forces taking out 40 Russians a day

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Sunday June 2 2024

The foxhole is only 10ft wide and 4ft deep, scant cover for the Ukrainian special forces team when death comes straight at them.

"Russian jets incoming!" shouts Anton, who was a businessman before the war. Five men pile on top of one another. The shelter smells of wet soil tinged with sweat, and severed tree roots jab at the bodies pressed against them, tearing unprotected skin. The ground shakes one, two, three, under the impact of huge long-range glide bombs. The team is not the target, yet. "We have just a few seconds to get under the ground," Anton says. "Otherwise that's it."

Hidden in the treeline northeast of the village of Lyptsi, these men, who call themselves the Peaky Blinders after the violent British

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