Despite the fact that Russian President Vladimir Putin promised at the beginning of the full-scale invasion not to send conscripts to the war – that is exactly what the Ukrainian army was met with when the offensive against the Kursk region began a little over a week ago.
After that, village after village has been captured by Ukraine and in step with it, Russia has continued to send conscripts, whose mission is to defend the Russian border region.
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– It is 18-year-old children who are sent there to die. They are completely unprepared, says Ivan Tyviljajev.
And every day Ivan’s organization is contacted by relatives of conscripts who want help in getting their sons and husbands home from Kursk. What few people know is that Russian law forbids sending anyone to war who has been active for less than four months or who lacks military training.
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