Ukrainian servicemen from the 3rd Assault Brigade at frontline positions near Andriivka, Donetsk region, Ukraine, Saturday, September 16, 2023. Ukrainian brigade's two-month battle to fight its way through a charred forest shows the challenges of the country's counteroffensive in the east and south. (Photo by Mstyslav Chernov/AP Photo)





A Ukrainian serviceman from the 3rd Assault Brigade who goes by the call sign “Sheva” eats a piece of bread in a trench on his position at the frontline a few kilometers from Andriivka, Donetsk region, Ukraine, Saturday, September 16, 2023. The brigade announced Friday they had recaptured the war-ravaged settlement which is less 10 kilometers (6 miles) south of Russian-occupied city of Bakhmut, in the country's embattled east. (Photo by Alex Babenko/AP Photo).





Assault unit commander from the 3rd Assault Brigade who goes by the call sign “Fedia”, passes by the body of a dead Russian soldier at the frontline in Andriivka, Donetsk region, Ukraine, Saturday, September 16, 2023. The 3rd Assault Brigade announced Friday they had recaptured the war-ravaged settlement which lies 10 kilometers (6 miles) south of Russian-occupied city of Bakhmut, in the country's embattled east. (Photo by Alex Babenko/AP Photo)





Ukrainian servicemen Dmytro, 29-years-old, embraces his wife before she boards a train heading to Kyiv, at a railway station in Kramatorsk, Donetsk region, on October 8, 2023, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Photo by Genya Savilov/AFP Photo)





Assault unit commander from 3rd Assault Brigade who goes by the call sign 'Fedia' speaks with a Ukrainian servicemen in the frontline a few kilometers from Andriivka, Donetsk region, Ukraine, Saturday, September 16, 2023. (Photo by Alex Babenko/AP Photo)





A Ukrainian serviceman hugs his wife and the daughter at the railway station in Sloviansk, Donetsk region, Ukraine on Tuesday, September 12, 2023. The train that runs from Ukraine's capital, Kyiv, to the city of Kramatorsk in the east stands apart from others in Ukraine. It is shrouded in solemn silence as passengers anticipate their final destination – in front-line areas where battles rage between Ukrainian and Russian forces. (Photo by Hanna Arhirova/AP Photo)





A Ukrainian serviceman of the 47th Magura Separate Mechanized Brigade prepares a M2 Bradley infantry fighting vehicle for combat activities at a position near a front line in Zaporizhzhia region, Ukraine on September 6, 2023. (Photo by Reuters/Stringer)





A wounded Ukrainian soldier is treated by Ukrainian military medics in a Ukrainian stabilization point in an undisclosed location near Bakhmut in Ukraine, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Photo by Roman Pilipey/AFP Photo)





Bohdan, a soldier of the 10th Mountain Assault Brigade, practices playing his Trembita on September 20, 2023 in Donetsk Region, Ukraine. The Trembita is an alpine horn, made of wood and common in Western Ukraine. (Photo by Libkos/Getty Images)





A Ukrainian serviceman smokes a cigarette while taking a cover from shelling in a bunker at the frontline in Andriivka, Donetsk region, Ukraine, Saturday, September 16, 2023. (Photo by Alex Babenko/AP Photo)





Commander of the Joint Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Serhiy Nayev holds puppies as he visits at positions near the border with Belarus, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Zhytomyr region, Ukraine on September 20, 2023. (Photo by Gleb Garanich/Reuters)





A Ukrainian servicemember carries a candle before a service marking Defenders of Ukraine Day, which coincides with the religious feast of Intercession of the Holy Virgin in the Orthodox Church of Ukraine, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kostiantynivka, Donetsk region, Ukraine on October 1, 2023. (Photo by Oleksandr Ratushniak/Reuters)





Oleksiy, a Ukrainian serviceman, kisses his wife Maryna, who arrived on a train from Kyiv to visit him, at the railway station in Kramatorsk, Donetsk region, on September 25, 2023, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Photo by Roman Pilipey/AFP Photo)





A Ukrainian servicemen seats inside a M109 self-propelled howitzer as he prepares to fire towards Russian troops in Donetsk region, Ukraine on September 22, 2023. (Photo by Oleksandr Ratushniak/Reuters)





A sniper of Ukraine's 3rd Separate Assault Brigade takes a position during a reconnaissance mission, near Bakhmut, Ukraine on September 7, 2023. (Photo by Reuters/Stringer)