Friday, 10 october 2025.

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More than two years since the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the number and identities of volunteers from Bosnia and Herzegovina who’ve gone there to fight on the Russian side remain well hidden. In mid-February, one of rare videos depicting a volunteer holding a gun and sending a greeting “to Modrica from the Serb volunteers” appeared on Telegram communication application. But his identity was not revealed in posts that were followed by more than a thousand people. BIRN Bosnia and Herzegovina journalists Nino Biljaca and Irvin Pekmez first followed his path from his training to departure to the frontline in Ukraine, and then traced his family in Modrica.

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