“None Returned to Battle”: The Harsh Reality Facing Ukraine’s Young Recruits on Front Lines

This report follows the harrowing journey of 11 young Ukrainian recruits sent to the front lines with hopes of defending their country and securing a better future. Most were quickly wounded, went missing, or suffered life-changing trauma as Ukraine struggles with manpower shortages and intense fighting in the east. Families continue searching for answers as the war enters its fourth year. This video examines what happened to these young soldiers and what their stories reveal about the wider conflict.

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00:00I thank you very much for your time.

00:05We also have a lot of time.

00:08We also have a lot of time.

00:10We have a lot of time.

00:12We are all in the same way.

00:14I am a military team.

00:16I am a military team.

00:18My military team is a revolution.

00:21My military team is a revolution.

00:24Ukraine!

00:26Ukraine!

00:28Ukraine!

00:29I feel like we are способ nesteende.

00:31I am an Iranian military team.

00:33I want a military team to see the

00:41most stainless steelos,

00:46and I want to be a Israeli military team.

00:47I grew up in Spain,

00:49and I have been volunteers to flags.

00:51Ukraine is a different posição than others.

00:55It was a...

00:57It's me, it's the Strasher,

00:59now there's my friend,

01:01and it's the Lodzik too.

01:03It's about...

01:05About two, two.

01:11I'm in this room,

01:13I'm in this room,

01:15let's go to another room,

01:17another, another, another,

01:19five more people came across me,

01:21and it's just like I got in this room

01:23and it's raining on the ground.

01:25Actually, it's not a pleasant feeling,

01:27when it's raining on the ground,

01:28and thank God,

01:29that I didn't rain on the ground.

01:31I didn't fear death.

01:32I fear that I don't see a wife and a child.

01:35I fear that my wife doesn't see me,

01:37and my daughter doesn't see me.

01:39It will only be remembered to know,

01:41who is the father.

01:43All the guys ran away from the ground,

01:45and this drone is on the ground,

01:47and it's on the ground,

01:49and it's on the ground,

01:51and I see a grenade on him,

01:53and I understand,

01:55that a part of me will burn,

01:57and they will be bad for me.

01:59And I just heard,

02:01and I fell,

02:03and I fell,

02:05and I fell,

02:07and I fell,

02:09and I fell,

02:11and I fell,

02:13and I fell,

02:15and I fell,

02:17and I fell.

02:19and I fell,

02:20and I fell.

02:21I fell,

02:22and I fell,

02:24and I fell,

02:25and I was scared,

02:26and I was scared.

02:27I never had a look at her,

02:28because I was on the chair,

02:30and I got it in photographs,

02:31I took over the chair,

02:32and in the first time,

02:33I flew.

02:34and also got my nose.

02:36I fell,

02:38and I fell,

02:39and I wasn't able to leave it there,

02:40and I got it,

02:41and it's a bit scared,

02:43And it was very scary to become a burden for a wife, not for a child,

02:49that he will be lying on the chair.

02:53I think, honestly, that I would have to stay there.

02:59I don't think about the future, honestly, I don't think about it.

03:02Because this is the head of my head, and you don't think about the future,

03:06you just live today.

03:08And you don't live, you don't exist.

03:10I just exist, I don't feel like a person, I don't feel joy and so on.

03:16I just live well, I think I'll take a ploy.

03:24I mean, joy doesn't bring me anything, except for a child.

03:28And if I look at it, it's worth a million.

03:32This million is not worth anything.

03:34Because I've never been able to go normally.

03:36It's worth a million?

03:38And sometimes you think, that I'd better be with him there.

03:42And fight?

03:44And fight, and if you fall, then you fall.

03:47That's why these thoughts are healing you.

03:50...

03:59...

04:03...

04:06We come to work together, we try to meet each other.

04:14I sit with Kostik in one hospital and I'm constantly driving these legs.

04:20He goes with this vacuum, he's also standing a little like the old kid,

04:25he has the turks, his skulls are not bad.

04:30I'm with the two invalid, he is 18-24.

04:34I didn't want to, I'm 20 years old, but I didn't see my life in my life.

04:39But I went there, I got this wound, I'm tired now, I can't sleep normally.

04:46But I went and I wasn't afraid.

04:49If it would be me for the second time, I would still go.

05:04Sorry, please.

05:09We need to start changing our location.

05:22First of all, it's a blink.

05:25There's a technique.

05:31There's a technique, right?

05:35Seven, nine, six, nine.

05:42Nothing.

05:45You're all in the same conditions, except your older brother.

05:55You're all in the same condition.

05:58You're all in the same condition.

06:01I decided to try something.

06:05I would have to get something.

06:09It's a fault of my mother.

06:11She's all in the same situation.

06:16And my brother.

06:20And my brother is too.

06:21They're afraid to say a lot.

06:23I don't know, I don't understand them, but I don't understand.

06:31Many people say that he died, and that he died in the prison.

06:43I called to a boy through WhatsApp and he told me,

06:49and he told me, wait, I know the information, and then I'll tell you.

06:54It's about 2 seconds, and he tells me,

06:56that your brother died,

06:58his brother went to his brother,

07:02and your brother said to his back.

07:05I don't believe this.

07:07I don't have a feeling that he died.

07:09I believe that he is alive.

07:11I believe that he, let God, had a gun.

07:16But I don't know such information.

07:19I don't know such information.

07:49You

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