Russia is punishing men who refuse to pay alimony by sending them as mobilised troops to the war in Ukraine.
One city - Sochi - is responding to pressure from ex-wives and sweeping up men dodging maintenance payments, ordering them to the front, revealed leading Putin TV propagandist Margarita Simonyan.
Then the money to pay alimony is taken from their military earnings as mobilised soldiers, or family compensation if they are killed, and handed to the mothers of their children.
