Niko Vorobyov

While some hawks ac­cept the de­ci­sion to with­draw, oth­ers are fu­ri­ous about the Russ­ian mil­i­tary’s de­feat.

Promi­nent anti-war and cli­mate ac­tivist Ar­shak Ma­kichyan, cur­rent­ly liv­ing in Ger­many, is now state­less.

The par­lia­ment has ap­proved bills aimed at fur­ther con­strict­ing the coun­try’s mar­gin­alised LGBT com­mu­ni­ty.

Russ­ian po­lice ac­cused of raid­ing hos­tels, home­less shel­ters and stu­dent dor­mi­to­ries in at­tempt to boost the mil­i­tary.

Pro-Krem­lin hard­lin­ers hail Rus­sia’s bar­rage of at­tacks across Ukraine and call for more.

As Ukrain­ian forces re­cap­ture the strate­gic city of Ly­man, pro-Putin com­men­ta­tors slam Rus­sia’s mil­i­tary tac­tics.

New waves of Rus­sians have ar­rived in Geor­gia, des­per­ate to avoid join­ing troops in Ukraine.

Long queues form at Rus­sia’s bor­ders as men try to leave the coun­try as they fear be­ing called up to fight in Ukraine.

Af­ter Pres­i­dent Putin an­nounced the par­tial mo­bil­i­sa­tion of pop­u­la­tion, ‘how to leave Rus­sia’ spikes on search en­gines.

Pavel Fi­latyev, an ex-Russ­ian sol­dier seek­ing asy­lum in France, opens up about his ex­pe­ri­ences on the front lines.