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KOSTROMA, Russia - Olga Garina spits out the time, "one-o-five," when she got the call telling her that her paratrooper son was one of 10 taken captive this week in Ukraine. That call - from a neighbor, not from the army - set her on course to become a defiant ringleader against stonewalling Russian military officers. 

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