"We don't have time to watch the news" says Oleksandr, a member of a Ukrainian tank unit near the Donetsk region frontline, ahead of a peace summit due to take place in Switzerland.
"All the guys just want to come home alive" he adds.
Away from the front, Kyiv has based its summit agenda on a 10-point 'peace plan' and hopes to unite the international community behind it when world leaders gather on 15 and 16 June.