Putin's cannon fodder: The Russian recruits who are dying in Ukraine

Putin ordered the partial mobilisation of 300,000 reservists to fight in Ukraine in September. Photo: Alexei Babushkin/Kremlin/dpa

It's not possible for Viktorija to forget about the war in Ukraine these days, even though she lives in a small flat near Moscow.

Her brother was called up to fight by the Russian army, directly from his workplace in the Rostov region, in south-western Russia on the Sea of Azov.