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LONG READ - Prison, war and revenge killing: the inside story of the Wagner ‘sledgehammer murder’ case
The story of the life and death of Yevgeny Nuzhin is a grim illustration of how Russia is increasingly using its prison population as a source of new…
Jan 12, 2023
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The shocking scale of theft in the Russian army
Theft on an industrial scale – why the Russian army’s supply shortages are often self-inflicted. BBC Russian investigates.
Oct 20, 2022
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The cost of Putin’s military venture in Syria
The BBC can reveal that hundreds of Russia’s most highly-trained military specialists joined their final battle in the Middle East – and will not be…
Dec 12, 2024
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‘Putin’s companion’ steps into the spotlight
Alina Kabaeva and the athletic struggle for influence in Russia.
Jan 25
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‘Immoral but effective.’ How the ‘Wagner’ private military company lost 17,000 prisoners in the assault on Bakhmut
BBC Russian continues its investigation into the Kremlin’s war dead in Ukraine.
Jun 10, 2024
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‘Immoral but effective.’ How the ‘Wagner’ private military company lost 17,000 prisoners in the assault on Bakhmut
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Elite specialists: Russia’s costly losses in Ukraine
The BBC has been able to establish that Russia has lost hundreds of elite military specialists, whose training took years of effort, and millions of…
Sep 5, 2022
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Everyone’s at the front line. Penal colonies in Russia are closing down: there’s nobody left to ‘do the time’
The war in Ukraine has seen tens of thousands of Russian prisoners recruited to the battlefields.
Jun 21, 2024
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Lost battalions: calculating Russia's casualties in six months of war in Ukraine
BBC Russian's analysis shows that junior officers are killed much more frequently than those under their command in Russia's army in Ukraine.
Aug 22, 2022
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Lost battalions: calculating Russia's casualties in six months of war in Ukraine
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LONG READ: How Russian diplomacy lost its influence on Putin and failed to stop the war
Over the past decade the Russian Foreign Ministry has been increasingly sidelined, powerless to influence policy, and reduced to echoing the aggressive…
Aug 8, 2023
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LONG READ: How Russian diplomacy lost its influence on Putin and failed to stop the war
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“If you sign up now, get ready to die, mate.” Life on the Ukrainian front for Moscow’s new ‘Storm V’ convict soldiers
No more presidential pardons, and rolling contracts to the end of the war.
Jan 28, 2024
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“If you sign up now, get ready to die, mate.” Life on the Ukrainian front for Moscow’s new ‘Storm V’ convict soldiers
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The Year of the “Meat grinder”. What we know about Russia’s war losses in 2023
As the Ukraine war approaches its third year, BBC Russian Service continues counting and profiling Russia's military losses.
Dec 27, 2023
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Almost 135,000 killed? Working out Russia’s war dead in Ukraine
New Russian army recruits are being tempted by ever-increasing ‘golden handshakes’ – and make up a rapidly growing proportion of those killed at the…
Aug 2, 2024
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