I can understand working in harm’s way to get a story. It’s what war correspondents do. But the Telegraph is banned in Russia, and if they can just walk up to Russian soldiers in the trenches and talk to them, either they made it up, or there is no chain of command telling them in no uncertain terms to get lost before they start shooting. It’d be like that pro-Russian guy who covered Mariupol, Patrick Lancaster, walking up to Azov Battalion members in the trenches and shooting the breeze. He never tried that, because he knew what they would do to him.
“there is no chain of command telling them in no uncertain terms”
Yes. I think you got the answer there. The article said, “There is no information, no command. We sit like on [tenterhooks], because we do not know where are our own [and] where are the enemy. No radio, no cartridges, no s***,” one says.”