Vladimir Putin’s commanders are using a brutal Stalin tactic to prevent Russian reservist troops (pictured) leaving the Ukraine frontline, say men who have seen the horror of the killing fields.
Up to 70 women had set off on foot from Belgorod to occupied Luhansk region in search of their spouses following a ‘massacre’ blamed on inept senior officers.
Evhenia Emerald married her husband while on the Ukrainian frontline in Kharkiv. The couple tied the knot in a forest in Kharkiv on Friday, a public holiday known as Defenders’ Day.
Scaffolder Andrew Hill, 36, was freed last month as part of a deal that also saw fellow British prisoners of war Aiden Aslin and Shaun Pinner released and is now back home.
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