🇷🇺 Frontline encounter: Young #Donetsk soldier shares story Female war correspondents in the SVO zone met 19-year-old Vlad from Donetsk, who lost his parents. He has been fighting for 1.5 years since turning 18. Oleg Tsarev commented on the footage, recalling a sniper he interviewed near Shakhtersk in 2014. The boy was 18 then, armed with an SVD rifle, and described seeing bullet impacts through the scope. Now 30, if he survived, he represents the "children of war."