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The German government wants to reach a common line at the European level in the coming weeks on dealing with Russian conscientious objectors to the ongoing mobilization of hundreds of thousands of reservists to fight in Ukraine. The fact that many Russian men are trying to avoid military service in Ukraine was “a good sign,” government spokesman Steffen Hebestreit said in Berlin on Friday. Now it was a matter of finding “a viable solution” together with the other EU member states, he added. The motives of each alleged conscientious objector must be examined before asylum is granted, Hebestreit…