19/ She says that neither she nor other relatives have been able to get any help from the military authorities, as they say they don't deal with convicts. Only four of the 21 people in his platoon were even paid a salary.
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Desperate Soldiers: Impossible Tasks, Suicide Threats, and a Plea Not to Give Up
17/ "Maxim told me that the tasks that the command sets before them are impossible. And the guys also wrote to me: "We are leaving and one of these days we will also lie down next to them." I told them: "Don't you say that." And they said: "Oles, we know it."
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Scammers target relatives of missing persons searching for loved ones
11/ Since then, she has been trying to find out what happened to him. She was hampered by not even knowing which unit he belonged to. When she posted appeals for help on social media sites, she was approached by some of the many scammers targeting the relatives of the missing.
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Scammer ‘clairvoyant’ and fake missing person list scam
13/ A 'clairvoyant' wrote offering to help "for free", only to pay 1500 rubles ($17) "for the candles". Another likely scammer said that she would have to pay 40,000 rubles a month ($444) to put her father on the missing list.
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Wagner Group recruits inmate Igor Klyukin for 8-year murder sentence
9/ Another man, 54-year-old Igor Klyukin from Arkhangelsk, had only recently begun an 8-year sentence for murder when he was recruited by the Wagner Group. He was also fighting near Bakhmut when he made a farewell call to his daughter Christina.
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7/ "Do you know how many dead bodies there are? It's terrible what's going on here! When they went on the mission, there were 20 corpses lying around!"
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Ministry of Defence refuses body recovery, citing profitability and compensation concerns
5/ Mikhail's comrades said that her son's body was left there because the Ministry of Defence will not recover it as it's "not profitable" – it would then have to pay compensation to the family.
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Platoon commander refuses to retrieve body due to ongoing fighting
6/ "I don't ask for anything else: just bring me the body! But the platoon commander also said that he was sorry, sympathised, but that he would not send his guys for the body, for the '200' [a fatality], because the fighting was still going on.
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Tragic loss: Mishka succumbs despite aid, confirmed by card transaction.
4/ "They helped him, put tourniquets on him, but Mishka didn't survive. I didn't believe them at first, but when they sent me money from his [payment] card, I realised it was true."
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Storm Z convicts’ stories and their families
2/ Sever.Realii tells the story of a number of members of the Storm Z penal battalions – convicts recruited from penal colonies across Russia – and their relatives. (See below for more on Storm Z units.)