Interviews
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“I still keep the keys to my apartment, even though its doors were broken by the Russians, just like my whole life”
AFU soldier “Skhidny” about 8 years of partisanship under the Russian occupation and New Year’s combat duty in the Kursk region
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Resident of Donetsk didn’t leave his house for 100 days to avoid mobilization
ASTRA publishes stories of men who managed to escape from the “DPR”, despite martial law and a ban on departure
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“Me, a Russian in Ukraine, they came not to defend, but to destroy”
“The very last straw was the funeral of a little girl, whom they tore apart in front of her mother’s eyes. Everyone refused to bury her, so I had to do it myself,” – Konstantin…
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ASTRA found another pit where guilty Russian soldiers are kept. «Nobody gives a fuck. Regulations and laws do not apply here»
A mobilized Russian officer from military unit 95482 (Chita) told ASTRA about another place where Russian soldiers and officers who have «failed» are being held. This pit is located near the village of Elenovka in…
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«People shouted to us, asked, begged us to take them, but, unfortunately, darkness was setting in, and we could not do it»
Evgeniy Kuzmin, who works in the occupied part of the Kherson region as a volunteer and is a “candidate for deputy” in the territory of the Ukrainian region seized by the Russian Federation, told ASTRA…
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«You can only leave from here feet first»
This is the story of Sergei Kalinin, a 58-year-old welder from the Russian Far East who volunteered to fight in Ukraine for three months, was beaten by his commander, and is now unable to leave…
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“Where in Kharkov, Colonel, did you see the Nazis, well?”
The story of an officer of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, who refused to go to war in Ukraine