Recruits return home from Ukraine in coffins

A recruit and his mother

A Russian recruit looks through a bus window at his mother, whom he has to leave behind at a military recruitment center.

(Photo: dpa)

Berlin For Viktoria, the war in Ukraine has been very close for almost a month now, even in her small apartment in the Moscow region. The Russian army had her brother picked up directly from his workplace in the Rostov region. “He’s supposed to fight in the Donbass, what a nightmare,” says the 37-year-old.

“I can’t sleep anymore.” Viktoria is crying, not only trembling for her brother, but also for her husband Andrej. The couple have a one and a half year old son. The conscription office in the Rostov-on-Don region, where Andrei is still registered, is already looking for him.

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