In the frozen fields of the eastern Donbas region of Ukraine, a T-64 tank emerges ominously from its hiding place under camouflage netting, churning the snow into mud under its tracks. The rusting Soviet-era hulks have led the Ukrainian fight-back against Russian forces, firing directly at enemy positions unseen a short distance away or deep behind their lines. But gunner Igor Khonko, whose job it is to set the targets and fire, waits eagerly for modern battle tanks, that Ukraine's Western backers have finally agreed to supply to Ukraine after weeks of stalling.
