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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Andrew Roth in Moscow

‘My son has died’: Russia mourns loss of first drafted soldiers in Ukraine

Russian recruits at a railway station in Prudboi, Volgograd region, Russia
Newly mobilised Russian recruits at a railway station in Prudboi, Volgograd region, 29 September. Photograph: AP

Andrei Nikiforov, a lawyer from St Petersburg, was one of the hundreds of thousands of Russians mobilised since last month to hold the frontlines in his country’s faltering war in Ukraine.

On 25 September he received his call-up papers. By 7 October, just two weeks later, he was dead.

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