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    "author": "Anastasia Shepeleva DW reporter in Ukraine",
    "date_published": "2026-10-11T06:38:20.331Z",
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    "excerpt": "Russia has announced a battalion consisting of Ukrainian \"volunteers.\" But veterans and former prisoners of war share very different accounts.",
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    "title": "Former Ukrainian prisoners are fighting under Russian command \u2014 voluntarily, Russia claims",
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