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Vladimir Putin is recruiting a Dad’s Army of old folks to prop up his creaking Ukraine invasion. The Russian army has put out an SOS for volunteers aged up to 60 after sustaining heavy losses during the disastrous six-week campaign.The military wants ex-soldiers nearing retirement age to rejoin in the Siberian cities of Chelyabinsk and Tyumen, according to Russian media.Moscow desperately wants old tank commanders, snipers and engineers.They would join up to 60,000 reservists recently called to active service along with 134,500 new conscripts forced into action.The conscripts - men aged 18 to 27 - make up a quarter of the army and only usually serve for a year.Defence experts said inexperienced fighters sent to Ukraine would be going to a `slaughterhouse’.The Kremlin has promised not to send the new recruits to warzones - but it previously pledged not to launch an invasion.Russia’s recruitment and conscription drives come amid NATO estimate that up to 15,000 Russian troops have perished in the war.

The fate of Alexei Navalny, the jailed Russian opposition leader whose story was told in the Oscar-winning documentary Navalny, has become even more grim.

Vladimir Putin is now relying on the help of his very own 'Dad's Army' to help fight his war on Ukraine. In a desperate attempt to make up the numbers to replace soldiers killed in battle, the age cap for Russian military volunteers has been stretched to 60.Retired servicemen are being called up specifically to fill the roles of tank commanders, snipers and engineers in two Siberian cities after around 15,000 Russian soldiers fell to resistance in Ukraine.A rallying cry from the Kremlin for former soldiers to return to duty and make their way to either Chelyabinsk or Tyumen, has been reported by Russian media.

Daily Star's biggest headlines straight to your inbox!IT's fair to say Irina liked a drink.In fact, the "quiet and respectable" Russian mum of two was so addicted to vodka she became a serial killer to quench her thirst for it.Irina Gaidamachuk was born in 1972, in the Siberian town of Nyagan, and had a tough upbringing. Her parents liked a tipple and Gaidamachuk became addcited to booze as a young teen.She was taken into care but later married her husband Yuri and settled in the town of Krasnoufimsk.

Daily Star's biggest headlines straight to your inbox!A plane carrying at least 13 passengers has gone missing in Russia, foreign media reports.Officials lost contact with the airliner outside the Siberian city of Tomsk, the Interfax news agency reports.The Antonov-28 plane had taken off from the town of Kedrovy before disappearing.A source told news agency TASS: "The aircraft disappeared from radar in the Bakcharsky district. Its emergency locator beacon went off.

16-year-old had a large clump of hair removed from her stomach after spending a decade chewing her barnet.

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who fell ill on a flight back to Moscow from Siberia.Navalny was rushed to hospital on August 20 and taken to the Siberian city of Omsk after an emergency landing.He was then taken to Berlin's Charite hospitals, where doctors found indicators of poisoning.Chancellor Angela Merkel's spokesman, Steffen Seibert, said in a statement that testing by a German military laboratory had shown proof of "a chemical nerve agent from the Novichok group".Novichok was used to poison former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter in Britain.

Vladimir Putin foe Alexei Navalny has been taken to Germany for medical treatment after he was left in a coma following a suspected poisoning.

Dive right in! Like the weather, the Daily Star's FREE newsletter is a scorcherA Russian boxer and a female world champion kickboxer were caught on video in a fight with a disabled man which led to the death of a passerby who tried to be a "good samaritan" by stopping the brawl.Mikhail Startsev, 38, and kick boxer Liliya Vorogushina, 37, have been accused of beating a man who needed a walking stick.Married father of three Pavel Pokhlov, 40, was passing by with his wife after a night out and "tried to intervene to stop the fight" in Siberian city Barnaul.In the footage, Startsev appears to haul the disabled man to the ground while Vorogushina "aims kicks at the man's head", said a state media report.The boxer and kickboxer with a female

Two teenage girls who were sexually attacked and robbed while on a lockdown walk in Russia have been ordered to pay fines for breaking isolation rules.