Cargo ships transporting sanctioned Russian oil through the Baltic Sea are routinely setting sail with two extra crew on board: a pair of Russian men with backgrounds in security organizations.

Casualties in the Russian army greatly surpassed the number of new recruits in 2025, data shows. In January alone, the Kremlin has lost 6,069 soldiers in Ukraine. On average, President Vladimir ...

Russian Defense Minister Pavel Grachev promised he could seize Grozny with a single parachute regiment in two hours. On New Year's Eve 1994, his army instead drove into a meticulously planned ambush ...

A new investigation by the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) and partner news organizations has found ...

In hundreds of official complaints, inadvertently posted online by the Russian government, soldiers and their loved ones describe a lawless and violent military apparatus that abuses its own troops to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on March 4 expanding the Russian regular army to nearly 2.4 million personnel, ...

Russia is on track to lose 1.3 million men in the war by the time of its fourth anniversary next week. The Russian forces continue to suffer heavy losses on a daily basis on the battlefield in Ukraine ...

Many foreign men seeking Russian residency or citizenship must now sign a military or emergency services contract in order to apply. Systema and Azattyq Asia discovered the little-advertised decree, ...