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Nearly 1,800 soldiers like Maksim Kochetkov, 20, (pictured left) are refusing to follow Vladimir Putin’s order to attack Ukraine and are instead being held in penal colonies or dark ‘torture pits’ (right). Russian officials, struggling to replenish battle lines five months into their invasion, try to bully the refuseniks into ripping up their resignation letters and return to the frontline. More than 75,000 Russian soldiers have been killed or wounded in the five-month war, according to US intelligence – almost matching the size of the British Army – and frustrating their efforts to advance in the eastern Donbas region.Credit Daily Mail