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Ukraine opens probe after crowds attack army conscription vehicleUkraine launched a criminal investigation after a conscription vehicle was overturned in Lviv. Crowds surrounded and attacked the vehicle, ...
Ticket to the Arctic: Inside Russia's system of convict labourRussia revives forced labour amid Ukraine war labour crisis. Convicts fill workforce gaps in harsh regions like Norilsk. Activist Yekaterin...
Grit, humor, grief and gloom mix as Ukrainians face a dangerous new phase in the warKyiv, Ukraine’s beautiful capital, is once again a bustling European city with modern conveniences from craft beer bars and hip coffee shop...
Taiwan holds military drills to defend against the threat of a Chinese invasionAmid escalating tensions with China, Taiwan's military conducted a defensive exercise involving land, sea, and air maneuvers. Major Gen. Su...
As Taiwan's government races to counter China, most people aren't worried about warHuang shut down in solidarity with protesters during Taiwan’s Sunflower movement in 2014, when tens of thousands demonstrated against a tra...
Russians who fled mobilisation cautiously return homeIvan Nesterov, a well-built fitness trainer, came back to Russia six months after fleeing the mobilisation that propped up Russian forces f...
Russia's chaotic draft leaves some out in cold, without gearSince Putin announced the mobilization Sept. 21, independent media, human rights activists and those called up have painted a bleak picture...
Russia says 'no decisions' on closing borders amid exodus of military-age menMultiple reports have documented how people with no military service have received draft papers - contrary to Defence Minister Sergei Shoig...
Russia shells Ukrainian cities amid Kremlin-staged votesUkraine and its Western allies say the referendums underway in Kherson and Zaporizhzhia in the south and the eastern Luhansk and Donetsk re...
'I don't want to die': Russians flee abroad after Putin's call-up"I don't want to go to the war," he told AFP. "I don't want to die in this senseless war. This is a fratricidal war."
Russians trying to escape mass conscription drive, over 1400 arrested in protestRussian forces arrested at least 1,400 on Wednesday after protests against the recent conscription order amplified. Most arrests were made ...
Agnipath: Necessary reform, unnecessary babelSuch revolutionary reform requires a degree of large-scale social adjustment. Public consultations and information dissemination through me...
40-mile Russian convoy threatens Kyiv; shelling intensifies"I believe Russia is trying to put pressure (on Ukraine) with this simple method," Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said late Monday...
Ukraine talks yield no breakthrough as Russians close inFive days into Russia's invasion, the Kremlin again raised the specter of nuclear war, while an embattled Ukraine moved to solidify its tie...
Missiles hit Kyiv as Ukraine capital awaits Russian assaultAir raid sirens wailed over Kyiv, a European city of three million people, and some residents sheltered in underground metro stations, a da...
Invading Russian forces press deep into UkraineAt least 137 "heroes" were killed during the first day of fighting, President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Thursday, as he called up conscrip...