AFP video reporter Arman Soldin was killed in a Russian missile strike near Chasiv Yar, Ukraine.
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Arman Soldin was killed in a Russian missile strike near Chasiv Yar
The incident occurred in May 2023
Shompolov was wounded fighting for the PMC in Bakhmut
He was hospitalized and eventually discharged with payment equivalent to one month's salary
100,000 Russian casualties (80,000 wounded, 20,000 killed) in Bakhmut since January 2023 - US White House assessment
Nearly 20,000 mercenaries died in the battle for Bakhmut, many of them former convicts recruited from Russian prisons
A Russian conscript near Bakhmut in May-June described Storm-Z fighters as 'just meat', providing medical assistance to wounded Storm-Z soldiers against his commander's orders
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