{"id":67922,"date":"2024-06-07T13:37:29","date_gmt":"2024-06-07T13:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/07\/between-the-offensives-images-from-a-journey-in-ukraines-borderland\/"},"modified":"2024-06-07T13:37:29","modified_gmt":"2024-06-07T13:37:29","slug":"between-the-offensives-images-from-a-journey-in-ukraines-borderland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/07\/between-the-offensives-images-from-a-journey-in-ukraines-borderland\/","title":{"rendered":"Between the Offensives: Images From a Journey in Ukraine\u2019s Borderland"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Photographs by <\/span>David Guttenfelder<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Written by <\/span>Peter Robins<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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David Guttenfelder traveled along Ukraine\u2019s northeastern border twice in the months before Russian troops again poured through.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

The invaders had not returned. Not yet. But along about 600 miles of Ukraine\u2019s northeastern border territory that The New York Times visited late last year and again in the early spring, the war<\/a> has never left.<\/p>\n

Much of this area, in the Kharkiv<\/a> and Sumy<\/a> regions, was farmland once. Now a farmhouse hosted a counter-saboteur unit \u2014 made up of anti-Putin Russians, to avoid sending Ukrainian troops into Russia \u2014 preparing before dawn for a cross-border raid.<\/p>\n

The fields are far too exposed to Russian fire for anyone to try a harvest. Instead, they are sown with \u201cdragons\u2019 teeth,\u201d concrete antitank barriers typically bound together with cables and threaded with razor wire.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n