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‘The Romantics Are Gone’: A Year Later, Many Foreign Fighters Have Left Ukraine

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‘The Romantics Are Gone’: A Year Later, Many Foreign Fighters Have Left Ukraine After the Russian invasion, some 20,000 foreigners flooded into Ukraine to protect the country. A year into the… You must be logged in to view this content. … Continue reading →

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Prigozhin asks legislators not to outlaw ‘constructive criticism’ of top military officials

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Prigozhin asks legislators not to outlaw ‘constructive criticism’ of top military officials 9:55 am, March 1, 2023 Source: Meduza Wagner Group founder Evgeny Prigozhin appealed to the State Duma speaker Vyacheslav… You must be logged in to view this content. … Continue reading →

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Putin Reportedly Paying Palestinians From Lebanese Camps To Fight in Ukraine

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Ukrainian officers walk past destroyed Russian military vehicles displayed in an open air exhibition in Kyiv on February 27, 2023. (Sergei Supinsky/AFP via Getty Images) Exclusive: Putin Reportedly Paying Palestinians From… You must be logged in to view this content. … Continue reading →

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Putin’s Russian Critics Are Growing Ever Louder

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Analysis Putin’s Russian Critics Are Growing Ever Louder The most pointed criticisms of the war are coming from those charged with fighting it. Vohra-Anchal-foreign-policy-columnist18Anchal Vohra By Anchal Vohra, a Brussels-based columnist for Foreign… You must be logged in to view this content. … Continue reading →

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Putin ally moves to up jail time for insulting the army, protect mercenaries

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March 1, 20239:52 AM ESTLast Updated 13 hours ago Putin ally moves to up jail time for insulting the army, protect mercenaries Reuters [1/2] A man wearing a camouflage uniform walks out… You must be logged in to view this content. … Continue reading →

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Bloodied Wagner fighters captured in Ukraine recount path from prison to war

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Bloodied Wagner fighters captured in Ukraine recount path from prison to war By Steve Hendrix and   Serhii Korolchuk   February 23, 2023 at 6:00 a.m. EST Captured fighters of Russia’s… You must be logged in to view this content. … Continue reading →

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Putin’s Dogs of War

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OLIVER BUNIC/AFP via Getty Images   Putin’s Dogs of War Feb 24, 2023 Dina Khapaeva Like the war in Ukraine and the Kremlin’s previous imperial adventures in Chechnya, Georgia, and Syria,… You must be logged in to view this content. … Continue reading →

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Violence as a Condition: the Threat Posed by Quasi-PMCs

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Violence as a Condition: the Threat Posed by Quasi-PMCs February 2023 Sky Kunkel Matthew Ellis Preprint Violence as a Condition: the Threat Posed by Quasi-PMCs File available February 2023 Description and… You must be logged in to view this content. … Continue reading →

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UAE mercenaries plundering oil reserves in Yemen’s Shabwah, documents reveal

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News   /   Yemen   /   Editor’s Choice UAE mercenaries plundering oil reserves in Yemen’s Shabwah, documents reveal Friday, 17 February 2023 10:31 AM  [ Last Update: Friday, 17 February 2023 10:57… You must be logged in to view this content. … Continue reading →

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Wagner Group releases graphic video of corpses in desperate plea for more ammunition

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Wagner Group releases graphic video of corpses in desperate plea for more ammunition Yevgeny Prigozhin said he would risk arrest to get his Russian mercenary fighters more shells and bullets By… You must be logged in to view this content. … Continue reading →

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