Ukraine crisis: on both sides, the dress rehearsal for war begins
Nato forces are arriving in eastern Europe even as leaders say conflict can still be averted, Oliver Moody writes.
Trailing scraps of white cloth and with conifer branches lashed to its main gun barrel for camouflage, a Challenger 2 tank roars through a 3ft bank of snow towards the enemy lines.
To the right of the road, scout infantry fan out through the pines. To the left, a two-man crew wielding a Javelin anti-tank missile crouches in the undergrowth and tries to get a fix on an armored fighting vehicle holding a position several hundred yards to the north.