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The sound of old Soviet war songs mixed with the sobbing of relatives in the small Russian town of Bataysk as freshly mobilised reservists in Russia's southern Rostov region said goodbye to their families on Monday.

Mikhail Suetin expected to be detained when he protested against Russian mobilisation, but he never imagined he would be ordered to enlist in the very army he was denouncing.

Sergeant Alexei Bakulev was killed from shrapnel wounds as he covered a retreat by his forces, it has been claimed - the location of his death has not been revealed

A Russian soldier loyal to Vladimir Putin's government says the three months of fighting in Ukraine have felt longer than the four years he spent serving in the army during peacetime

Long deployments and a lack of training, support, food and equipment all affecting morale as war drags on

Like many Russians, Andrei had planned to spend his summer holiday on Turkey's Mediterranean coast. But this July, he, his wife and their two children will be in Russia's Black Sea resort of Anapa, hoping to avoid the fallout from the conflict in Ukraine.

Special report: One prisoner recalls how a man was beaten to death next to him. Another recounts being stripped, stabbed and subjected to electric shocks. In recently liberated Trostyanets in Sumy, Bel Trew speaks to torture victims and uncovers fresh evidence of possible war crimes in northeast Ukraine

From bringing in supplies through secret routes to delivering sandwiches amid Russian shelling, citizens in Ukraine’s northern city of Chernihiv tell Bel Trew how they risked their lives every day to provide food to thousands of people battling hunger and thirst

Special Report: A man watches a Russian missile destroy his family’s home in front of his eyes. A teenager avoids a summary execution by seconds. In Borodyanka, Bucha, Hostomel and Makariv, Bel Trew finds a Russian retreat marked by a trail of murdered civilians, mass graves and devastation

While investigators uncover the remains of civilians, heartbroken families wait nearby to reclaim their loved ones

Severely disabled Ivankiv grandmother Svetlana Mykolayivna, 77, woke at night on invasion day two as Russian troops blasted her bedroom wall apart with 40mm tracer rounds. She was shot dead