Captioned "Patrolling the industrial area on the outskirts of Avdiivka." Credit...Brendan Hoffman for The New York Times

My God, such beauty subjected to war. A Ukrainian soldier is quoted immediately above this photograph. "...Lt. Tatyana Zaritskaya, a former kindergarten teacher who joined the war effort in 2014.

On Ukrainian Front,

 Grinding War and

Weary Anticipation

 of Invasion

After eight years in the trenches, Ukrainian soldiers

 are resigned to the possibility that the Russian

 military, which dwarfs their own in power and

 wealth, will come sooner or later.