Ukraine's military commanders say they're preparing for a long, brutal war: Reporter's notebook
"It’s going to be a long and hard war and we need to get ready for that," one soldier said. No movie can capture the sweat, blood, pain and tears, said Serhiy. "The scariest things you can imagine and can’t imagine, you find here," Serhiy, a commander of Ukraine's 3rd Assault Brigade, added. Amid the destroyed villages and desolate landscape in eastern Ukraine, Ukrainian forces are slowly advancing, inch by bloody inch. It was troops from the 3rd Assault Brigade who spearheaded the final stages of a monthlong operation to recapture the ruined village of Andriivka this month. The battles in eastern Ukraine are "a living hell," according to Victoria Torri, a 23-year-old combat medic in the region who only 10 months ago was working as an investment banker in New York. "You lose someone you know every single day," she told ABC News, describing the Russian enemy as "a living evil" which is "much bigger than you and has unlimited res...