A two-year-old girl was found dead under the rubble of an apartment building in the town of Pidhorodne, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, that was hit by a Russian missile attack on June 3, according to local Governor Serhii Lysak.
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Russia shells 9 communities in Sumy Oblast, injures 2 civilians
Russia shells 9 communities in Sumy Oblast, injures 2 civilians. The Russian army shelled nine communities in Sumy Oblast on June 4, firing 104 rounds from various types of weapons, the Sumy Oblast Military Administration reported on Telegram.
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Russian soldier Karpov flees trench, captured by Ukrainian forces
20/ When the trench came under fire from machine guns and RPGs the Russians manning it fled. In the confusion, Karpov got lost, and after 15 minutes of wandering in the forest he was captured by Ukrainian soldiers.
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Karpov taken to Voronezh, trained as BMP-2 driver for dangerous frontline road
18/ Karpov got away more lightly. He was taken back to Voronezh in Russia, where he was trained as a BMP-2 driver/mechanic. He was told that he would be driving on the Svatove-Kreminna road, a few km behind the front line (but still highly dangerous).
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Refuseniks left stranded on a hill
The men were given no shelter but were left to fend for themselves on what Karpov describes as the "mountain of refuseniks": "There is a hill not far from Svatove, and the refuseniks were sitting on it. You just sit under a tent made out of a raincoat and wait by the fire."
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FSB sends refuseniks to Svatove, Luhansk, due to lack of space in Novopskov
11/ The FSB had wanted to send them for retaining at Novopskov in the eastern Luhansk region, but there was no room there. Instead, they were dumped in Svatove, which Karpov calls "the city of refuseniks". Previous accounts have spoken of many refuseniks gathering there.
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Imprisonment in small space, then FSB torture near Donetsk
8/ At the prosecutor's office, 20-30 of them were imprisoned in a space measuring only 3 metres by 6 metres (10 ft by 19.5 ft). Then they were handed over to the FSB and taken to Zaitseve near Donetsk, where they spent a further 15 days being tortured by the FSB.
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Refusing to fight, soldiers imprisoned after surrendering to military prosecutor
7/ By this time, the rest had had enough and refused to fight any further. They laid down their arms and went to the military prosecutor's office in Troitske, where they were imprisoned for 15 days. A political officer tried unsuccessfully to make the men return to the front.
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Karpov fell ill, returned to frontline, survived rocket fire killing 59
6/ While at the front line, Karpov was taken sick with pancreatitis. He was taken to an infirmary for treatment, and then returned to a frontline village, where his unit lived in an abandoned house. They came under intense rocket fire which only 21 out of 80 people survived.
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200 men deceived, diverted from Russian plant to Ukraine frontline
4/ He says that he and about 200 others were initially told they would be guarding a concrete plant in the Belgorod region, within Russia. Instead, they were taken at night to frontline positions in a forest belt between Yahidne and Kuzemivka in the Luhansk region of Ukraine.