Editor's note: Some names including Oksana's have been changed for security reasons.
Oksana was just 14 when Russia occupied her village, and only 16 when Russian forces began training and indoctrinating her to fight against Ukraine.
At a camp outside Moscow, what was sold as a short vacation was in fact three weeks of intensive military training.
"Sometimes I fainted," she said. "They gave me smelling salts, I got up and kept running with the gun.
"My mom didn’t believe me until I sent her a video of me in uniform with an assault rifle."
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