Exclusive - Mother urges Russia not to abandon son captured in Ukraine


  • World
  • Thursday, 25 Jun 2015

ROZHKI, Russia (Reuters) - The mother of a Russian soldier captured in Ukraine says her son never told her he was quitting the army, raising doubt about Kremlin assertions that the soldier was no longer serving when he crossed the frontier.

Zinaida Alexandrova, 58, says she has avoided watching Russian TV since she learnt from a news broadcast that her son was wounded fighting in east Ukraine and taken prisoner.

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