Some 2,000 kilometres from the frontline in Ukraine, in the Russian city of Yekaterinburg, a group of women clad in camouflage fatigues practise firing their Soviet-designed Kalashnikovs. They are part of the 'Women's Guard of the Urals' - volunteers who have signed up for military training amid fears that the fight could come back home.

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