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Russian mother raises children alone after draft exiles military-aged father

Evanne Yu

Russian mother Yekaterina Filimonova is one of many mothers across the country who face a new burden of raising children alone. Her husband now lives in Belgrade, Serbia, a hub for exiled IT workers. The software engineer fled after President Vladimir Putin announced in September that Russian men were being drafted en masse to fight in Ukraine. 

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