After joining the pro-Russia rebels in Ukraine last year, 19-year-old student Ruslan Protsyenko was schooled in a deadly new syllabus: how to assemble, fire and reload assault rifles; how to survive a barrage of shells; how to perfect the trajectory of an outgoing mortar.
Vice News: The student soldiers in rebel-held Ukraine
Anti-aircraft gunners of Ukrainian forces take part in exercises not far from southeastern city of Mariupol, Donetsk region on July 7, 2015.
