24/ According to Shirshin, the site's torture room was located directly above the basement, and was referred to as the "fun room". The men imprisoned below could hear the screams coming from it. They were taken one by one to be tortured in turn.

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21/ "A warrant officer lined us up. Another guy from our group and I went out and said that we would not go on the assault. The warrant officer replied, "Then we will "zero" you," and I said that he could zero us out right here, rather than there, under mortars."

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"They took us to the front line and put us in a dugout, which was often under fire. They said that they would come in the morning to "zero" us out, but in the morning the military police came for us."

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19/ Shirshin looted a vial of painkiller – a prized find – from a corpse and injected himself with it before deliberately stepping on a PFM-1 anti-personnel mine. It didn't detonate, despite him jumping up and down on it. Other men shot themselves to escape from the front line. pic.twitter.com/sS3789Q06d

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19/ Shirshin looted a vial of painkiller – a prized find – from a corpse and injected himself with it before deliberately stepping on a PFM-1 anti-personnel mine. It didn't detonate, despite him jumping up and down on it. Other men shot themselves to escape from the front line.

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18/ Some of the team decided to cripple themselves so that they would be sent home. One man detonated a grenade fuse in his hand to blow off his fingers, but was taken away for punishment when the grenade ring was found, probably being sent to his death in an assault squad.

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16/ "We waited for the drone to fly away, threw him on a stretcher and went back. In serious condition but we carried him. They loaded him into a UAZ, I never heard from him again. In the first week, the commander and I were the only two of the six who returned, four were killed.

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17/ "And a couple of weeks later it was the same. By the end of the month, we no longer remembered each other's call signs. What's the point if in a couple of weeks at most you'll either leave there wounded or a corpse."

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14/ Shirshin served as an evacuator for only six weeks, but this was enough to make him a veteran. He says that in that time, the team's membership changed almost three times, as nearly everyone else was killed.

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15/ "We had a turnover of about 30 people. On the second night we were carrying a man from our team back, about forty minutes after we left. A Baba Yaga [heavy drone] dropped a grenade next to him and he was completely wounded by shrapnel.

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The group leader said that there used to be no stretchers, and the corpses were simply hoisted onto the shoulders and dragged.

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