I found this lengthy account of life on the front lines in Ukraine by Mari Saito at Reuters a bit narrative for my taste but it made for vivid reading:
The artillery fire begins just before dawn. A soldier steps into a darkened trench and lights a cigarette, carefully cupping the flame with his free hand. A boom and crackle of outgoing fire sound in the distance.
Viktor, the infantryman, ducks his head under a canopy of camouflage netting and looks up at the brightening sky. The incessant buzz of a drone sounds overhead, moving a dozen meters from one end of the trench to linger just above him.
Viktor swallows. A moment later, the buzzing sound moves on.
“One of ours,” the 37-year-old soldier says, bringing the cigarette back up to his lips.
The one thing the piece does not say is that producing munitions as fast as the Ukrainians need them is beyond NATO’s ability at this point and will be for the foreseeable future. Examples: in aggregate NATO countries produce as many tanks in a year as Russia does in a month. Russia is producing artillery shells at three times the pace that NATO is.
