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On their way, they attacked and shelled the region’s major city Chernihiv but failed to capture it. The scars of ruined buildings still stand as testimony to the failed attack.
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Now there is razor wire through the forests all along the border.
After driving on back roads out of Chernihiv for about an hour, I met Major Artem Lazutin, deputy commander of the region’s border guards. His life has radically changed in just a few months.
“We are no longer classical border guards,” he explains. “Before we simply checked people, cars and trucks at a border crossing checkpoint on the road. Then when the war started, the border guards became military units.”
The major then took me past the razor wire to a higher position close to where the old border crossing was.
There is now a large gap where one of the main bridges connecting the two countries once stood. Lazutin said they blew it up to prevent the Russians from using it.
“On February 24, we were attacked by enemy drones. Then we took up fire positions along with the Armed Forces to prevent an enemy breakthrough. After that, we decided to blow up this bridge as well as a railway bridge near here.” Lazutin said…
