Facing heavy losses in Ukraine, Russia is offering high salaries and bonuses to entice new recruits. In some of the country’s poorest regions, a military wage is as much as five times the average.
MOSCOW — A court in Russian-controlled eastern Ukraine sentenced a Ukrainian soldier to 26 years in prison for allegedly killing a civilian during Moscow's 2022 siege of the port city of Mariupol.
Russia is losing soldiers at a rate of one every 49 seconds, Ukraine’s defence ministry has claimed, offering a stark illustration of the staggering human cost of Vladimir Putin’s war.
“Obviously, they will try to take back as much territory as possible” Rob Lee, a Russian military specialist at the Foreign Policy Research Institute in Philadelphia who recently returned from ...
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