Recently, Drongo was driving an unarmoured car as fast as possible down a makeshift track in Serebryansky forest on a mission to recover the stranded corpses of Ukrainians who had died a few days previously. A glide bomb exploded nearby. In an instant pine trees were shredded to matchsticks and his 4×4 was engulfed by a shrapnel tornado.

A soldier of ten years’ Donbas experience, Drongo said the shell shock was unlike anything he had experienced.

So the Sunday Times just admitting that Ukraine has been at war with the Donbas since 2014? Did they just give up the game?