According to soldiers accounts, at the beginning of war, girls as young as 15 were recruited by the russians. In one case in early june, serge son soldiers said they'd found a forty year old artillery spotter. And when they searched a little bit further, they found that the computer game was not, in fact, a computer game, but it was an application which had been basicly a tool to record ucranian military coordinates and receive crypto currency payment. These are individual cases which are unlikely to tip the balance. But even in the towns along the border that i visited, the locals were very reluctant to speak to me,. They weren't sure about who
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