How Many Will Return Home From Ukraine?

Young Russian men called up for compulsory military service take part in a ceremony at the Trinity cathedral in St Petersburg, before their departure for battle zones in Ukraine.

IMAGE: A conscript gives the thumbs up inside a bus after the ceremony. All photographs: Anton Vaganov/Reuters

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IMAGE: Russian conscripts take part in the ceremony.

IMAGE: The conscripts are being photographed by their relatives. Who k knows how many will return home from the cruel and brutal war in Ukraine?

IMAGE: Russian conscript Yaroslav, 20, embraces his girlfriend Nadezhda, 22, and sister Lera, 13, before his departure.

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