Shaky footage in Ukraine shows this is a tale of two ways of waging war: stealth versus brute force
by Peter Beaumont in Lviv from World news | The Guardian on (#5X1QW)
Ukrainian troops with anti-tank weapons set ambushes, while their enemy slowly encircles cities to besiege them
In the snow-dusted woods outside Kyiv a column of Ukrainian troops moves, identifiable by the soldiers' yellow armbands.
In the rare footage, captured by Maryan Kushnir, a journalist with the Ukrainian service of Radio Free Europe, one of the soldiers says they are going to clear an unidentified village of orcs"- slang for the Russian troops now rapidly encircling the Ukrainian capital - who have occupied it with armoured vehicles. A commander warns that two tanks are coming, and as the men appear to fall back to a better position, there is an exchange of heavy fire. The video's ending is as sudden as it is inconclusive.
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