A man, according to Ukraine's state security service (SBU) named Alexander Alexandrov who is one of two Russian servicemen recently detained by Ukrainian forces, speaks during an interview with Reuters at a hospital in Kiev, Ukraine, May 28, 2015. REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko
MOSCOW (Reuters) - A soldiers' rights group cast doubt on Monday on denials by military prosecutors in Moscow that a Russian serviceman was on active duty when captured fighting in Ukraine.
The Kremlin and Russia's military say Alexander Alexandrov, captured with a colleague on May 16, had quit Russia's military before going to east Ukraine to fight alongside pro-Russian separatists..
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