The Russian command in the Pokrovsk direction is concealing the actual losses among its personnel, registering the dead as ...

Prosecutors said in October that some 235,000 servicemen went AWOL, and almost 54,000 have deserted since Russia began its ...

Russia has recorded a sharp increase in cases of military personnel missing in Ukraine being registered as AWOLs and ...

Russian forces are reportedly disguising heavy casualties in the battle for Pokrovsk by recording fallen soldiers as having ...

In early June 2025, a video circulated online claiming to show Ukrainian soldiers shooting deserters near the Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk. The footage circulated amid reports of ongoing fighting near ...

Russia has deployed helicopters and weapons in the occupied Ukrainian Kherson region in an effort to round up soldiers who had deserted their positions, according to Ukraine. The General Staff of the ...

Russia is forcibly sending its military deserters to the front line in Ukraine, according to an investigation. Verstka, an independent Russian news outlet that was founded shortly after Ukraine war ...

New reports reveal a disturbing escalation in how Vladimir Putin’s military is dealing with deserters: rather than simply chasing those who flee, Russian forces are allegedly targeting and torturing ...

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European Council president Charles Michel said on Wednesday that European Union countries should think about ways to offer asylum to Russian soldiers willing to desert Ukraine battlefields. During an ...

VIENNA (Reuters Life!) - When Richard Wadani returned home to Austria from Britain in 1946, he was not hailed as a hero who fought the Nazis but branded a coward. Wadani risked his life to desert the ...