School student drafted to fight for Russia in Donetsk region, mother says
Nikita, 18, a school student, was drafted in the Russia-occupied Donetsk region of Ukraine on 25 February, his mother Natalya Gladkikh, has told in a video she recorded , and confirmed it as she spoke to TV Rain. The young man was sent to Kherson under the guise of military training, where he still is, the woman says. The local police visited her during Nikita’s school break and told her he is obliged to appear at the local conscription office. “Basic military training, they said.