Ukraine crisis: Forgotten death of Russian soldier

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Three weeks before Konstantin Kuzmin was killed, he was sitting in this yard enjoying a summer holiday.

"He got a telephone call. He said it was from the commander of his army unit, who told him there was going to be an inspection and that everyone had to be back on base," Oksana recalls.

"He left on 23 July. Three days later my brother called to say he was on the move again. It sounded as if he was frightened of something. 'I'm off to the south west! South-west Ukraine!' he said. I thought, perhaps, he meant the border area ... " she added.

"On 8 August we spoke again on the phone. But he was in a rush. He said to our parents 'Mama, Papa, I love you. Hi to everyone! Kiss my daughter for me…' Then, when he went to the border, or wherever it was he went, he told us not to call him. He would call us."

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More and more of these lost soldiers will be named and the truth come out.

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1. The BBC team that filed this story was subsequently attacked; their equipment ruined.

BBC team under attack in southern Russia

A BBC team has been attacked in the southern Russian city of Astrakhan.

They had gone to investigate reports of Russian servicemen being killed near the border with Ukraine.

The team's cameraman was beaten up and the camera smashed during the attack. The recorded material left in the car had been deleted, the team found after returning from the police station.

Following the attack, the team spent more than four hours being questioned at a local police station. During that time, the recording equipment left behind in the car was tampered with, our correspondent says. The hard drive of the main computer as well as several memory cards with video material had been wiped clean.

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