C-O-L-D.

This is coolbert:

C - clean, O- overheating, L - layers, D - dry. 

Winter warfare. Minus twenty celsius [-20 C.] = minus four fahrenheit [-4 F.]

"SEVEN YEARS NOW OF ON/OFF/SPORADIC CONFLICT AND STAND-OFF IN THE EASTERN PART OF THE UNKRAINE. TERRITORY AS ANNEXED [?] BY RUSSIA FORTIFICATIONS AND TROOPS ON THE BORDER IN SOME WAYS RESEMBLING THE CONDITIONS OF THE GREAT WAR [WW1]."

"LESSONS IN WINTER WARFARE FROM THE UKRAINIAN WAR ZONE — A CASE STUDY FOR AMERICA’S ARCTIC PIVOT"

More than anything else from the Coffee or Die webzine article consider the spartan conditions troops on both sides of the conflict must endure at the Line of Contact [LoC]. "

"Today [2021], Ukrainian troops remain hunkered down in trenches and improvised forts along a roughly 250-mile-long [400 kilometer], static front line in Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region where they weather daily artillery fire from an invasion force that comprises pro-Russian separatists, foreign mercenaries, and Russian regulars."

Ukrainian troop inside a front-line dugout opposite his Russian  counter-part. Image courtesy the Coffee or Die webzine. Conditions indeed resembling something you would have seen at the front during the Great War one-hundred years ago now. HEY, no one ever said war was going to easy did they! Get used to it! That Russian bear is a cold bear.

And NOW an apparent large-scale build-up of troops on the Russian side of the LoC. Gonna blow.

coolbert.