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As Ukraine advances in Kursk, families of north Russian conscripts cry mercy

By Atle Staalesen, The Barents Observer, Georgii Chentemirov, The Barents Observer August 16, 2024

“The situation is such that my brother’s son, a conscript, was in Kursk. They only know that they were surrounded [and] that the commander got out some of them and that the fate of the other kids remains unclear,” an anonymous woman from the region of Komi writes in a social media page named ‘the mothers of Syktyvkar.’

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