Ukraine’s frontline troops endure a painful pause as they think of family

SUMY REGION: Soldiers on Ukraine’s eastern front have spent five exhausting months under Russian bombardment, measuring out the long days and longer nights in the metronomic cadence of relentless artillery fire.

Yet sometimes it is the quiet moments that kill – when there is a let-up in shelling and a stillness descends – as thoughts inevitably return to family and home.