Monument to fallen Russian soldiers shows toll of three years of war

Carved onto slabs of black marble, the names of 11 young men from the Russian town of Semibratovo who died fighting in Ukraine are a stark reminder of a war that is now three years old.

The frontline is far away, but the conflict has come home. Most of the local men who have died once played with their classmates in the schoolyard where the memorial now stands.

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