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Luckily for Ukraine, the tanks it's getting from Western allies are much better quality than the decades-old vehicles on which Russia must now rely.
Russian soldiers are going into battle high on drugs, according to a recent report.A military expert said the practice is common in warfare.Russia has taken
Mick Ryan's mother and widow say those responsible must now be prosecuted for manslaughter
Until Monday, Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov hadn't been seen in public since a failed mutiny led by Wagner Group chief Yevgeny Prigozhin.
Prigozhin was the most strident voice for those inside Russia criticising failures in the invasion and the strategies used by Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu and army chief Valery Gerasimov. Many soldiers do not know why they are fighting and dying in Ukraine and "Prigozhin came to speak for these men," researchers Liana Fix and Michael Kimmage wrote on the Foreign Affairs website, saying the remarkable episode highlighted the army's troubled state.