CNN travels to Ukraine to see the country's largest military victory in months.

The most important details in this text are the recent battlefield gains around Bakhmut, Ukraine’s biggest military gains since it forced Russian troops out of Kherson last November. Honza, a combat medic, is leading the group to see recent battlefield gains around Bakhmut, Ukraine’s biggest military gains since it forced Russian troops out of Kherson last November. The tracks they are walking on are drying out, and Ukraine’s Western allies are shaping operations for a coming counteroffensive. The trees that have burst into full leaf hide the trail to the trenches from the probing gaze of Russian drones and the artillery fire they call in on Ukraine’s troops. As Honza leads them out into open fields, a detonation to their left followed by a whistle has them ready to fall to the floor. The shell arcs overhead and lands several hundred meters to their right, and Honza and the others with them can’t tell if it’s Ukrainian or Russian. The most important details in this text are the drone video feeds of the battlefield searching for any possible Russian troops massing for a counterattack. This war is like no other, both sides spying on each other in real time, better able to rain death on each other if they have enough ammo and guns. The frontline troops around them are defending new gains, and Honza is hungry for more action. He never used to love killing Russians, but he knows it's his mission to defend his land. Everyone knows when the counteroffensive comes, it will be bloody and brutal, but buoyed by the gains around them, fear of drones and artillery won't hold them back.