In a dimly-lit wooden bunker, a tall, formidably-built Ukrainian officer is filmed from behind, wishing his men good fortune one by one with firm handshakes before a mission.
The soldiers in question — a few dozen mobilized Ukrainian men mostly in their forties, each dressed in issued pixel fatigues and with a basic rifle by their sides — respond mostly without enthusiasm, looking forward with blank stares as they accept their commander’s greetings.
With context, this seemingly innocuous bit of military social media content, Ukraine’s 425th Assault Regiment, better known as Skelia, takes on a darker tone, illustrative of the country’s grim manpower situation as the fifth year of Russia’s full-scale war approaches.
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Avdiivka, October 10, 2023. Source: Wiki Commons
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