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Report Exposes Putin’s ‘Basement Trap’ for Hundreds of Defiant Russian Troops<!-- wp:html --><p>Reuters</p> <p>Hundreds of <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/were-losing-but-moscow-will-never-admit-it-russian-soldier-says">Russian troops</a> who refused to continue with the <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/russia-says-its-losing-because-ukraine-has-experimental-mutant-troops-created-in-secret-biolabss">war in Ukraine</a> are being forcibly held in basements and garages in occupied Luhansk, according to a new report published Thursday.</p> <p>Citing families of the soldiers and human rights organizations, the independent news outlet <a href="https://t.me/svobodnieslova/282">Verstka</a> reports that at least 234 soldiers who were deployed to various regions of Ukraine are being held at facilities in the town of Bryanka.</p> <p>That’s where the family members of some of the men say a special center has been set up to deal with those choosing to opt out of the war amid <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/putins-new-missile-strategy-proves-he-is-getting-desperate-in-ukraine">deteriorating morale</a> and dwindling troop numbers.</p> <p><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/hundreds-of-russian-troops-are-being-held-captive-in-basements-for-refusing-to-fight-report-says?source=articles&via=rss">Read more at The Daily Beast.</a></p><!-- /wp:html -->

Reuters

Hundreds of Russian troops who refused to continue with the war in Ukraine are being forcibly held in basements and garages in occupied Luhansk, according to a new report published Thursday.

Citing families of the soldiers and human rights organizations, the independent news outlet Verstka reports that at least 234 soldiers who were deployed to various regions of Ukraine are being held at facilities in the town of Bryanka.

That’s where the family members of some of the men say a special center has been set up to deal with those choosing to opt out of the war amid deteriorating morale and dwindling troop numbers.

Read more at The Daily Beast.

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