Lessons in Winter Warfare From the Ukrainian War Zone — A Case Study for America’s Arctic Pivot
Mil & Intel
By Nolan Peterson | March 13, 2021
KYIV, Ukraine — To reach the Ukrainian fighting positions outside the village of Novomykhailivka, you must travel along a snow-covered road that precariously weaves through a minefield. Along the road, shrapnel has carved concrete power line poles like the wind-eroded sandstone buttes in Monument Valley on the Arizona-Utah border.
You see children standing beside the road and remember the insane ways in which this war, like any other, manages to coexist with normal life. Some buildings in the village bear the spattered pockmarks of shrapnel damage, while others have a caved-in wall or roof from a direct hit by a shell, or a rocket.
The Ukrainian positions are scattered and concealed within a tree line on the edge of a vast clearing. The opposite side is territory controlled by the Donetsk People’s Republic, one of two self-proclaimed, Russian-backed breakaway territories in eastern Ukraine. The white overcast sky seems to blend in with the open, snow-covered fields, which divide the Ukrainian troops from their enemies.
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