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Distro - Zero Line 

Chien-Chi Chang 

ZERO LINE

At the edge of silence and survival on a shifting front.

By Chien-Chi Chang

At 3:47 a.m. near the Dnipro River in Kherson, our BMP-2 jolted to a stop inside the zero line. Moments later, the thunder of 30mm autocannon fire erupted in rapid succession, each muzzle flash briefly illuminating the darkness like a lightning tracer. The blasts rang like a steel drum in my skull. The recoil rocked the vehicle. Just meters away, my fixer and I crouched in the dark, exposed, flinching with each concussion. It lasted less than a minute.

"Back in, now—move!" a soldier barked, and we lurched... 

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UKRAINE. Kherson. March 2025. A Ukrainian marine of the 40th... 

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UKRAINE. Kherson. March 2025. A Ukrainian soldier of the 40th... 

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UKRAINE. Kherson. March 2025. Ukrainian soldiers of the 40th... 

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UKRAINE. Kherson. March 2025. A mannequin riddled with bullet... 

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UKRAINE. Kherson. March 2025. A Ukrainian soldier reaches up... 

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UKRAINE. Kherson. March 2025. Soldiers inspect a BMP-2 amphibious... 

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UKRAINE. Kherson. March 2025. Under cover of darkness, Ukrainian... 

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UKRAINE. Kherson. March 2025. Steel targets riddled with bullet... 

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UKRAINE. Kherson. March 2025. A soldier from the 40th Brigade... 

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Ukraine. Kherson. March 2025. During field training near the... 

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UKRAINE. Kherson. March 2025. Amid rolling fields scarred by... 

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Ukraine. Kherson. March 2025. Concealed beneath lichen-covered... 

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Ukraine. Kherson. March 2025. A soldier in camouflage crouches... 

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UKRAINE. Kherson. March 2025. In a darkened warehouse near the... 

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UKRAINE. Kherson. March 2025. A soldier from the 40th Brigade... 

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UKRAINE. Kherson. March 2025. Chien-Chi Chang at Zero Line. Photo... 

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UKRAINE. Kherson. March 2025. A Ukrainian soldier trains with... 

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UKRAINE. Kherson. March 2025. A Ukrainian marine of the 40th... 

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UKRAINE. Kherson. March 2025. Ukrainian marines of the 40th Brigade... 

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UKRAINE. Kherson. March 2025. Under red tactical lighting in... 

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UKRAINE. Kherson. March 2025. After a night rotation from a frontline... 

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UKRAINE. Kherson. March 2025. Ukrainian soldiers of the 40th... 

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UKRAINE. Kherson. March 2025. Inside a dimly lit safe house,... 

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UKRAINE. Kherson. March 2025. Raindrops blur the view from inside... 

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UKRAINE. Kherson. March 2025. A Ukrainian soldier of the 40th... 

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UKRAINE. Kherson. March 2025. A drone hovers above a field during... 

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UKRAINE. Kherson. March 2025. A shot-up steel plate hangs above... 

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UKRAINE. Kherson. March 2025. A soldier from the 40th Brigade... 

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UKRAINE. Kherson. March 2025. Inside a vehicle near the Zero... 

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UKRAINE. Kherson. March 2025. A tall structure looms in the distance... 

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UKRAINE. Kherson. March 2025. A soldier from the 40th Brigade... 

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UKRAINE. Kherson. March 2025. A soldier from the 40th Brigade... 

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UKRAINE. Kherson. March 2025. During an RPG training session,... 

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UKRAINE. Kherson. March 2025. An instructor demonstrates proper... 

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UKRAINE. Kherson. March 2025. Spent casings and rubber links... 

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UKRAINE. Kherson. March 2025. A member of the 40th brigade rushes... 

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UKRAINE. Kherson. March 2025. Soldiers from the 40th brigade... 

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UKRAINE. Kherson. March 2025. Soldiers from the 40th brigade... 

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UKRAINE. Kherson. March 2025. Near the front in liberated territory,... 

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UKRAINE. Kherson. March 2025. Under cover of darkness, Ukrainian... 

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Ukraine. Kherson. March 2025. A soldier from the first battalion... 

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UKRAINE. Kherson. March 2025. Soldiers from the 40th Brigade... 

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Ukraine. Kherson. March 2025. During a deployment drill, a soldier... 

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Ukraine. Kherson. March 2025. As part of a coordinated deployment... 

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Ukraine. Kherson. March 2025. As part of their daily combat training,... 

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Ukraine. Kherson. March 2025. In the thick brush of a training... 

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UKRAINE. Kherson. March 2025. The rear window of a Pathfinder... 

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UKRAINE. Kherson. March 2025. Thick smoke pours across the highway... 

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UKRAINE. Kherson. March 2025. An abandoned house in a liberated... 

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UKRAINE. Kherson. March 2025. An engineer welds and tests custom... 

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UKRAINE. Kherson. March 2025. In a dimly lit workshop, an engineer... 

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Ukraine. Kherson. March 2025. Soldiers from the 40th Brigade... 
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