Russia has four options to rebuild its military power after heavy losses against Ukraine. Russia's easiest option isn't to move into the future, but rather go back to the past. If the war were to end ...

“The Nevsky Battalion is accepting volunteers.” This recruitment ad appeared on Russian social media in summer 2025 and is hardly a one-off. Swap out “Nevsky” for “Wolves,” “Saint George,” or any of ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree Monday allowing foreigners to serve in the Russian army not only during a state of emergency or martial law, but also during the period of mobilisation ...

Ukrainian frontline troops are innovating new drone tactics to counter Russian forces, helping them strike more effectively and conserve resources in a constrained fight.

A Chinese man fighting for the Russian Army claims his superiors locked him in a dark steel-barred pit, with barely enough room to stand, for 21 days. His offense, he said, was a dispute with his ...

The Russian Airborne Forces (VDV) is, “one of the more important instruments in the General Staff’s toolkit, serving as a rapid reaction force for local conflicts, supporting special operations, or ...

Tilak Budathoki, who served three years in the Nepal Army and was a former ward chair in Rolpa, was killed fighting for the Russian Army. If and when there is a European peacekeeping force in Ukraine, ...

The Russian army has a reputation for murdering, torturing and treating its own recruits terribly. How does such behavior become acceptable in a military?"They killed my child," Tatjana Bykova laments ...

After completing conscript service in his native Kazakhstan in the fall of 2023, Kiril Nysanbaev went to Russia for work. Nysanbaev's hometown of Rudny is located less than 100 kilometers from Russia, ...

Imagine U.S. sentiment if 8,000 conscripted prisoners died from 2001-2021. By comparison, more than 2,400 U.S. service members died during U.S. operations in Afghanistan. The twenty-year conflict, ...