A Morning Read

A U.S. official thinks that 300,000 Russian soldiers have been injured in the war.  Sergey Pivovarov/Reuters

Russia’s government is keeping wounded veterans out of public view to suppress antiwar sentiment. Veterans say that their care is poor and is designed to rush them back to the war. “It was a conveyor belt,” one said, of his crowded ward.

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