Ivan Smaga News Today

Russian soldiers near Avdiivka spend hours lying next to the bodies of the dozens of their dead comrades in an effort to not join their newly deceased fellow invaders, deputy commander of Ukraine’s 25th storm battalion, Ivan Smaga, told The Guardian on Dec. 15.

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