Some Russian recruits say they were given less than two weeks of preparation before being sent into combat.

New testimonies from Russian recruits and foreign fighters are raising concerns about how quickly some troops are sent into combat.Accounts suggest that in certain cases, preparation for the ...

Russia first cut training from five to six months to three in 2013, prior to its initial invasion of Ukraine. Today, by ...

Released prisoners of war were sent back into combat. Russian officers threaten their own soldiers with a bullet in the head so often that these murders are called zeroing out those unwilling to ...

Russian conscripts are taking their own lives to avoid fighting in Ukraine, according to local media reports. Vladimir Putin announced a "partial mobilisation" towards the end of September in a bid to ...

The Russian government, facing mounting losses in Ukraine, appears to be intensifying its coercive recruitment tactics targeting prisoners, conscripts, and ethnic minorities from remote regions and ...

November 26, 2025: Russia is different from the West and operates differently, especially in wartime. Some of the differences include barbaric treatment of Russian soldiers by their officers, and ...