MOSCOW (AP) — When Alexander was due to finish his year of mandatory military service in October, his commander told him he had no choice: He had to sign a contract to extend his stay in the army and head to southern Russia for troop exercises.
The 20-year-old knew that meant he might end up fighting alongside pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine. Other soldiers he talked to had been sent there.
His commanders “didn’t talk about it, but other soldiers told us about it, primarily paratroopers who had been there,” Alexander said in an interview with The Associated Press, which is not …read more
Source: KXAN
