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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Pjotr Sauer

My nation didn’t learn lesson of war, says Russian who finds bodies of Soviet soldiers

Konstantin Dobrovolski
‘I judge his decision’: Konstantin Dobrovolski’s son was killed in Ukraine after he volunteered to join the Wagner group in exchange for his release from prison. Photograph: NO.Media Russia / Youtube

Konstantin Dobrovolski was out in the woods like he was most days in early autumn before the inevitable advance of arctic winter.

Armed with little more than a map, a shovel and an old metal detector, Dobrovolski has scoured the hostile landscape of Russia’s far north for the last 33 years in search of the long-forgotten remains of Soviet second world war soldiers.

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