Alevtina Darmayeva

Family In Buryatia Grieves Over Son Killed In Ukraine War: 'If We Stop Now, What Has It Been For?'

Stepan Oseyev, a 31-year-old career soldier from the settlement of Ust-Kiran in Russia's Buryatia region, was buried in late March after being killed in combat in Ukraine. His family and friends remember a determined young man for whom the military was the only escape from a life of poverty.