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In what looks like an attempt to kill a story, a BBC News crew inside Russia was attacked by thugs while trying to report on soldiers who died in the Ukrainian conflict. The crew’s cameraman was beaten and his camera destroyed in Astakhan in southern Russia. When the crew went to the police, they returned to their car and found the interview with a dead soldier’s mother wiped from the hard drives while they were in the station. The story showed how despite Moscow denials about soldiers fighting in Ukraine, Russian families are coping with losing sons in the fight.