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  • Friday, 24 February, 2023
    News in-depthYevgeny Prigozhin
    Russian mercenary Prigozhin falls foul of Kremlin old guard

    Wagner Group’s influence wanes as Moscow’s military establishment reasserts control

  • Wednesday, 15 February, 2023
    News in-depthWar in Ukraine
    Military briefing: Russia prepares Ukraine spring offensive

    Kyiv’s allies expect Moscow to alter combat tactics and employ more air power in planned attack

  • Friday, 13 January, 2023
    War in Ukraine
    Russian forces in ‘full control’ of Soledar, says defence ministry

    Kremlin claims to have captured eastern Ukrainian town at centre of frontline fighting

  • Wednesday, 11 January, 2023
    News in-depthWar in Ukraine
    Russia demotes ‘General Armageddon’ after battlefield failures

    Valery Gerasimov replaces Sergei Surovikin, who was appointed in October as head of Ukraine campaign

  • Tuesday, 10 January, 2023
    War in Ukraine
    Russian forces may have scored rare success in battle near Bakhmut

    Assault on town of Soledar could deliver Moscow its first military victory since last summer

  • Tuesday, 3 January, 2023
    News in-depthWar in Ukraine
    ‘Untrainable’: Russian army faces backlash over deaths of conscripts

    Missile strike in Russian-occupied Makiivka revives questions over military’s capacity to learn from past mistakes

  • Monday, 2 January, 2023
    War in Ukraine
    Russia admits to deadly outcome of Ukrainian strike on military barracks

    Defence ministry says attack in Moscow-occupied Makiivka killed 63 troops but Russian war bloggers claim hundreds died

  • Wednesday, 19 October, 2022
    War in Ukraine
    Putin declares martial law in occupied regions of Ukraine

    Tougher security measures include ‘economic mobilisation’ in much of western and southern Russia to boost war effort

  • Monday, 10 October, 2022
    War in Ukraine
    Putin says Russia launched Ukraine strikes over Crimea bridge explosion

    At least 10 killed in first attack on Kyiv in months while other cities also hit

  • Wednesday, 28 September, 2022
    FT MagazineGillian Tett
    Mobilisation explodes the myth of Putin’s united Russia

    Despite outrage over minority soldiers forced to join the war, rebellion remains a distant prospect

  • Sunday, 25 September, 2022
    War in Ukraine
    Anti-mobilisation protests spread in Russia

    Men seeking to escape being drafted rush to borders with Georgia, Finland, Kazakhstan and Mongolia

  • Friday, 23 September, 2022
    War in Ukraine
    Finland to close borders to Russian tourists after mobilisation order

    Decision to stem flood of people escaping draft comes as EU summons crisis response meeting

  • Friday, 23 September, 2022
    Russia
    ‘Everyone will get snatched off the street’: mobilisation brings Ukraine war home to Russians

    Reservists who face being sent to fight are desperately seeking a way out over the border

  • Friday, 16 September, 2022
    War in Ukraine
    Mass grave found in retaken Ukrainian city of Izyum

    Many of 400 bodies discovered show signs of torture, says Zelenskyy

  • Tuesday, 13 September, 2022
    News in-depthWar in Ukraine
    Russian army hobbled by shortage of soldiers

    In wake of Ukraine rout, anger erupts at failure to extend conscription

  • Sunday, 11 September, 2022
    War in Ukraine
    Ukraine’s lightning advance near Kharkiv leaves Russian forces in disarray

    Kyiv consolidates hold in north-east as Russian sympathisers flee to border

  • Thursday, 11 August, 2022
    Alexander Baunov
    Russia’s diplomats are now reduced to propagandists

    Once regarded as a sophisticated elite, foreign ministry officials now use extreme language to prove loyalty to the Kremlin

  • Wednesday, 27 July, 2022
    FT MagazineGillian Tett
    The anger of the minorities fighting Russia’s war

    Minority groups are reportedly suffering per-capita casualty rates far higher than among Slavic soldiers in Ukraine

  • Tuesday, 5 July, 2022
    War in Ukraine
    Military briefing: how close is Russia to taking Donbas after the fall of Luhansk?

    Boosted by fresh western weapons supplies, Ukraine’s defence hinges on disabling Moscow’s artillery steamroller

  • Monday, 4 July, 2022
    War in Ukraine
    Putin urges generals to carry on into Donetsk after fall of Luhansk

    Russia’s president wants advance to continue as Ukrainian forces retake territory in southern Kherson region

  • Wednesday, 29 June, 2022
    War in Ukraine
    US blacklists Chinese companies for allegedly supporting Russian military

    Washington says sanctions send ‘powerful message’ to anyone backing Moscow’s Ukraine invasion

  • Monday, 27 June, 2022
    War in Ukraine
    Russian missile strike on Ukrainian shopping mall draws outcry

    Number of dead ‘impossible to imagine’ says Zelenskyy as he seeks more rocket defences from G7

  • Monday, 27 June, 2022
    InterviewWar in Ukraine
    Severodonetsk retreat ‘tactical’, Ukraine military spy chief says

    Kyrylo Budanov tells FT that Russian troops will find it difficult to cross the Siversky Donets river to Lysychansk

  • Friday, 24 June, 2022
    Norma Cohen
    Far from the battlefield, Moscow’s generals fight a falling birth rate

    For decades, Russia has been producing too few babies to keep its population stable, let alone build up an army

  • Friday, 3 June, 2022
    War in Ukraine
    ‘They break the rules of war’: Ukraine conflict fuels Russian military brutality

    Putin’s growing authoritarianism undermines the modernisation he once sought for the armed forces

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