"We are advancing, it is difficult" - at what cost is the Ukrainian army counterattacking in the south / hromadske

2 Serpents, grass snakes, sun-baked plain — that is how the Ukrainian south from the Donbas and Sloboda — Ukrainian lands where the frontlines also lay.
On this sunburnt plain, where the possibility of life seems somewhat illusory, the Ukrainian military has been living underground for several months. Life, it turns out, can go on here