Scammed, robbed, traumatised – life after war for Russian soldiers

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  Welcome to the documentary from the BBC World Service.

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  This is The Fifth Floor, at the heart of global storytelling,

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  with BBC journalists from all around the world.

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  I'm your host, Farinak Amidi.

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  Hundreds of thousands of Russian soldiers have fought in Ukraine

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  since the full-scale invasion started in 2022.

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  For those that survive, soldiers do sometimes return home,

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  either for holidays or because they are wounded.

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  Vladimir Putin promised that these men would receive a hero's welcome after returning from war.

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  But what is life actually like?

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  Today,

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  I'm joined by two journalists from BBC Russian who have been looking into the reality of men returning to Russia from the war in Ukraine.

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  Sergei Goryashko and Sofia Volianova.

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  Welcome to The Fifth Floor, both of you.

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  Great to be here.

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  Sergei, I'm going to start with you.

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  You wrote about Russian soldiers actually getting scammed after returning home.

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  Can you tell me more about it?

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  And how much do Russian soldiers actually get paid that makes them targets like this?

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  So we've examined dozens of different cases when Russian soldiers returned from the front line just to have their annual leave or just permanently dismissed from the army,

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