One holdover from the Soviet-era in Transnistria, an unrecognised territory between Moldova and Ukraine, is the attitude towards LGBT rights with no visual representation of LGBT people in society.
Some 60 Russian paratroopers from Pskov, Northern Russia, refused to fight the Ukrainians and left the battlefield to go home, defying orders from their superiors.
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