Thousands of Ukrainian civilians held by Russian forces are tortured and required to dig trenches for the military, the Associated Pressreported Thursday, pointing out lots of former detainees, Ukrainian authorities and satellite imagery.The report explains a system of detention and abuse of civilians-- most without legal status under Russian law-- that t

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Companies with understood links to Wagner Group founder Yevgeny Prigozhin have been awarded over 1 billion rubles in federal government contracts since his attempted topple of Russia's military management last month, the RTVI tv network reported Thursday, pointing out public information. The nine agreements, which are all for the provision of food services to

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Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) said it has detained a trans activist on suspicion of financing the Ukrainian military, state news agencies reported Thursday.

The FSB did not identify the person by name but described him as “an LGBT movement activist who previously changed his gender identity from a woman to a man,” according to TASS.

He is

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Russia will regard Western F-16 fighter jets sent out to Ukraine as a nuclear hazard because of their capacity to carry atomic weapons, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Thursday.Modern warplanes have actually been at the forefront of Kyiv's needs for military aid from its Western allies as it resists versus Russia's offensive.Lavrov spoke of a

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Remittances from Russia have dropped for the first time given that Moscow got into Ukraine in 2015, the RBC news websitereported Thursday, citing central bank data of 4 ex-Soviet countries that have been significant receivers of the inflows. Cash transfers from Russiaskyrocketed in 2022 after numerous countless Russians ran away to surrounding

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A Russian army general was heard railing versus his superiors for treacherously decapitating the military after his termination in an audio messageshared by a federal lawmaker late Wednesday.The speech slamming Russia's military leadership marks the first publicly known circumstances of a routine army officer voicing disaffection after Wagner's fai

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