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Shoigu: Our New Mission Is to Liberate Russian POWs in Ukraine

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Russia’s defense minister complained of Kyiv making it “complicated” for Moscow to free the soldiers it sent to commit war crimes.

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and Belarusian Defense Minister Viktor Khrenin at the Patriot Congress and Exhibition Center in the Moscow region, Russia, Aug. 14, 2023.
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