Having escaped Russian bullets and bombs back home for a tilt at talent show glory, Yevhenii Yemelianenko and wife Vlada Kamyshnikova are not just in it for the £250,000 top prize
For Ukrainian gun commander Oleksandr Kozachenko, the long-awaited US ammunition can't come fast enough as he and his comrades struggle to hold off relentless Russian attacks. His unit's US-supplied M777 howitzer, which once hurled 100 shells a day at the encroaching enemy, is now often reduced to fewer than 10. "It's a luxury if we can fire 30 shells."
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