On The Ukraine Front-lines

Ukrainian soldiers keep watch at their front-line trench position on Friday, January 21.Timothy Fadek/Redux for CNN  

CNN: On the front lines, Ukrainians brace for possible attack 

About 500 yards away from Russian-backed separatists, a group of Ukrainian soldiers waits for a fight it's sure is coming. 

And the men are strangely relaxed about it all, according to photographer Timothy Fadek, who spent time with the soldiers Friday on the front lines in Ukraine's eastern Luhansk region. 

"They have embraced the inevitability," Fadek said. "I was talking to one of the soldiers and he said: 'It's inevitable. We've accepted this inevitability of an attack.' 

And then there was a little bit of an argument between two soldiers. One said, 'The Russians will not come across the border, they will attack from the sea,' meaning the Sea of Azov. Another soldier disagreed with both those assessments and said, 'No, the attack will come from Belarus.' "  

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WNU Editor: I am getting mixed messages from my friends, family, and contacts in Ukraine. 

Some expect war, others do not. 

Some believe this is all a Kremlin bluff. Others do not. 

Many are scared. Many are not.

 But there is an overall agreement on one thing. Everyone wants this conflict to end, and are disappointed that their leaders have not succeeded in finding some common ground to end the conflict.

 On The Ukraine Front-lines  

‘We are ready for whatever comes’: on the Ukraine frontline -- The Guardian 

'We will fight them, make no mistake about that': Ex-squaddies in the trenches with Ukraine troops reveal the Russian invasion threat -- Daily Mail  

On Ukraine's frontline, little hope for Russia-US diplomacy -- France 24  

A view from inside Ukraine — tense but people are ready to resist Russia -- NYPost  

Residents of Ukrainian city near Russian border brace for the unknown -- Reuters

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