[On one of his comrades depicted in the book:]" Sasha was my friend … Like me, he was 19. But he didn't come home. He was killed 12 hours after this photo was taken.

Vladislav Tamarov
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[On one of his comrades depicted in the book:]"Sasha was my friend … Like me, he was 19. But he didn't come home. He was killed 12 hours after this photo was taken. A picture of a young man named Sasha is found among the pictures in a book that former Russian soldier Vasily Timchenko is reading.

Sasha's shirt is stained with blood and there are bullet holes in his body. The photo shows a boyish Sasha with a smile on his face, just moments before he died at the hands of a sniper near Donetsk, Ukraine, in July 2014. [On one of his comrades depicted in the book:]"Sasha was my friend … Like me, he was 19.

But he didn't come home. He was killed 12 hours after this photo was taken." (source: The New York Times)

Source: Afghanistan: A Russian Soldiers Story

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