39/ "Or he sleeps, but if you touch him, he explodes – his eyes are frantic. Sometimes I think, God, I hope he doesn't kill me. I will never let him go to war again." /end

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37/ "But [I said] if it comes to it, I'll meet you in court, where I'll tell you how your soldiers chew napkins and tree roots because they have nothing to eat."

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33/ However, Valeria says, Gennady had only got 300 km from the front when his battalion commander called him and said that the computer system had not approved the leave that had previously been granted verbally. pic.twitter.com/EjIYnnnqQk

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33/ However, Valeria says, Gennady had only got 300 km from the front when his battalion commander called him and said that the computer system had not approved the leave that had previously been granted verbally.

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31/ Almost his entire unit was wiped out in a failed assault on 31 July, with only 13 men surviving, including Gennady. "The front is full of crap," says his wife Valeria. "They were simply thrown like meat."

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32/ Gennady was wounded, but months later he has still not received his legally mandated compensation for the injury. He was at least granted leave to recuperate at home.

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"By law, people with no experience at all were not allowed to be sent to the front lines, but my man almost died there, and now I'm going to do everything I can to bring him home alive."

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30/ The commander of Gennady Olifirenko from the Kemerovo region refused to grant him leave to meet his newborn child but his wife persuaded the local prosecutor's office to intervene. When he returned to Ukraine, however, he was thrown into a bloodbath.

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However, she acknowledges that his year on the front line has changed her husband. "He has become more rude, cautious, even his eyes are different. I can't imagine what he will be like when he arrives. The mobilised are people who have just been ripped out of their lives."

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25/ "When I get all the papers in a pile, I will go to the military prosecutor's office and will demand they return my husband. They are obliged to send him to a military hospital, additionally, as hepatitis C makes him ineligible to serve according to the list of diseases."

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