After the screen clears following the gun’s muzzle flash, another soldier is seen leaning over his comrade and he is similarly dispatched. Shortly afterwards, another enemy combatant is seen emerging above the level of the trench and he is felled with a single shot, falling lifelessly backwards out of sight. ‘I shot three of them that night,’ said Olena. Two of them were what we call “cargo 200” [an old Soviet military term for dead, referring to the labels put on coffins] and the third was “cargo 300” [wounded].’ Five years on, Olena – who was then a volunteer fighter, but later joined the Ukrainian Marine Corps, has no qualms about any of the men she has killed or wounded in battle.
