Even as Ukraine and Russia intensify mass aerial attacks against each other, the unrelenting slaughter on the battlefields below continues, particularly in Ukraine’s Donetsk region, which Vladimir ...
The number of prisoners in Russia has dropped by more than 180,000 over five years, in part driven by Moscow sending convicts to fight in its war in Ukraine, Russia's prison chief said on Thursday. In ...
LONDON -- Drunk recruits. Insubordinate soldiers. Convicts. They're among hundreds of military and civilian offenders who've been pressed into Russian penal units known as "Storm-Z" squads and sent to ...