Russia's War Against Ukraine
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Paul Gobel: Russian draftees refuse military’s plans to send them to fight in Ukraine
Russian soldiers patrol the area surrounding the Ukrainian military unit in Perevalnoye, outside Simferopol, on March 20.
Some 250 Russian draftees at a military base in Rostov oblast have rejected the appeals of their commanders to sign up as contract soldiers, a step that would allow Moscow to send them to fight in southeastern Ukraine, according to Valentina Melnikova of the Union of Soldiers' Mothers of Russia.
