Maksim Kochetkov is being held captive in a penal colony 6,000 miles from his home on an island near – one of the rising number of Russian troops who are prisoners of a war they do not wish to fight. The 20-year-old is being punished for defying Vladimir ’s order to attack Ukraine – like thousands more Russian soldiers, often recruited from outlying and poorer parts of . His plight underscores the claim by defence officials in the United States last week that there are ‘increased signs of discipline and morale problems in the Russian army’.
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