'Stealing Our Husbands': Russians Say Relatives Seized Off Streets In Latest Recruitment Push 

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In a video captured in the Russian city of Penza, women sob as their loved ones are loaded into a van by recruitment officers, apparently after the men were forced into signing military contracts. Similar reports have emerged from several Russian regions in recent weeks, a sign of increasingly harsh tactics used by Moscow in an effort to maintain its numbers on the battlefield amid growing casualties.