Rain-filled trenches, mud, and shredded trees in Ukraine have drawn comparisons on social media with photos from World War I. Below are comparison photos of two very different conflicts that look increasingly similar as winter takes hold.
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Echoes Of World War I Highlighted In Mud, Shattered Trees Of Ukraine
- By RFE/RL
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A Ukrainian soldier in a mud-filled trench reportedly near Bakhmut, in eastern Ukraine, in November.
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A British officer wades through a trench in Bois Grenier, in northern France, in January 1915.
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Trees shredded by shrapnel and bullets on a battlefield near Bakhmut in November.
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Australian soldiers pass through the shattered landscape of Chateau Wood, Belgium, in October 1917.
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A Ukrainian soldier holding a quadcopter skirts around a muddy rural road in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine on November 29.
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War artist Muirhead Bone navigating a muddy road in Maricourt, in northern France, in September 1916.
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A Ukrainian tank on a waterlogged road in the Kharkiv region in October.
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A British soldier navigates a muddy road in Hamel, in northern France, in January 1917.
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Shell craters around a Ukrainian trench near Izyum in September.
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An artillery-pocked landscape near Quatre Rois, Belgium, in 1917.
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The ruins of the 19th-century monastery at the heart of the St. Heorhiy (George) Skete in Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region on November 2. The monastery was destroyed during fighting in the spring.
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The ruins of a church near Ypres, Belgium, in March 1916.
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A Ukrainian tank churns through mud at an undisclosed location in November.
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A road in the Struma valley, Bulgaria, during fighting in 1916.
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Ukrainian soldiers on a Russian tank that got bogged down in the Chernihiv region on April 1.
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A British tank that was destroyed by a direct hit from an artillery shell on an unidentified battlefield of World War I.
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A damaged cart in front of shrapnel-stripped trees near Courcelette, in northern France, in March 1917.
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Broken trees and a destroyed car on the outskirts of Chernihiv in April.
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Ukrainian tankers warm up next to their weapon near Bakhmut on November 30.
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Bulgarian troops gather around a fire during a rest between marches at an unknown location in February 1917.
