‘We were completely exposed’: Russian conscripts say hundreds killed in attack
by Pjotr Sauer from World news | The Guardian on (#65JGT)
Survivor tells of being abandoned to attack near Makiivka, as anger grows in Russia over death toll from war
Hours after Aleksei Agafonov arrived in the Luhansk region on 1 November as part of a battalion of new conscripts, his unit were handed shovels and ordered to dig trenches throughout the night.
Their digging, which they took turns to do because of the lack of available shovels, was abruptly interrupted in the early hours of the next day as Ukrainian artillery lit up the sky and shells started raining down on Agafonov and his unit.
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