Why this is the most brutally realistic war film ever made, writes RICHARD PENDLEBURY, who's reported on conflicts around the world for 25 years - and says the story of a unit under fire in Iraq has haunting lessons for Ukraine today

My first experience of being under direct fire happened while I was lying in an alpine meadow near Batusha, Kosovo, on a glorious spring morning in 1999.

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Why this is the most brutally realistic war film ever made, writes RICHARD PENDLEBURY, who's reported on conflicts around the world for 25 years - and says the story of a unit under fire in Iraq has haunting lessons for Ukraine today
My first experience of being under direct fire happened while I was lying in an alpine meadow near Batusha, Kosovo, on a glorious spring morning in 1999.