With the rat-a-tat-tat of machine-gun fire and the putrid smell of explosives in the air, a squad of Ukrainian troops dashes to the cover of a foxhole lined with sandbags.
Some in the group return fire, with their rounds striking next to a concrete structure on a hillside hundreds of metres away.
It’s a convincing simulation, meant to imitate the chaos and intensity of real battlefield conditions — only this scene is playing out in the picturesque rolling hills of southern England, rather than in the conflict zones of Ukraine’s Donbas or Kherson regions.
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