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Russian soldier Yaroslav Tipusyak spent his 19th birthday as a prisoner of war in Ukraine — just a day after he was captured by Kyiv’s forces in Russia’s Kursk region last week. He was serving his compulsory military service — the year of mandatory army service that all Russian men must complete — and never crossed the Ukrainian border to take direct part in the war. “I am not good at politics, I have never even been interested in [news about] war,” Tipusyak said in an interview from captivity which was published by Ukraine and may have been recorded under duress. “For conscripts, the main goa…

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