A dog walks past former Ukrainian soldiers as they work to clear debris of a school destroyed by Russian bombing in the village of Lyubomyrivka, Mykolaiv region, on February 14, 2024.

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Derek Huffman said on his family's YouTube channel he enlisted with the Russian armed forces weeks after moving to Russia.