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Andrew Webber's forever war
A successful attorney and decorated vet gave up everything to fight for Ukraine. His family is stil…
Sam Fellman,Ryan Pickrell
Russian troops surrender to an elite brigade as the Kharkiv front holds, Ukraine says
In a video released by Ukraine's 3rd Assault Brigade, Russian troops appear to be surrendering in V…
Cameron Manley
US deal freed a Russian prisoner whose crime was writing anti-war messages on supermarket price tags
Alexandra Skochilenko has been freed from Russian prison after she was charged for posting anti-war…
Grace Eliza Goodwin
Under strain from war, Russia plans a massive layoff in its public sector: report
Russia is expected to lay off at least 40,000 government officials by July, according to a report b…
Hannah Abraham
America's absurd war on 'organized retail crime'
Target and CVS call them criminal masterminds. Most are homeless or mentally ill.
Amy Martyn
North Korean troops will become 'cannon fodder' if they join Russia's war against Ukraine, South Korea says
South Korea's remarks echo what Ukraine and the US have said about Russia's war of attrition in Ukr…
Kwan Wei Kevin Tan
Speculation mounts that a US-Russia prisoner swap is in the works
Recent disappearances from Russian prisons have fueled talk of a potential prisoner swap. Neither R…
Kelsey Vlamis
I was part of Russia's prisoner swap with the US. Here's how it feels to finally, suddenly be free.
Aleksandra 'Sasha' Skochilenko was released in last week's prisoner swap. She told BI about her imp…
Joshua Nelken-Zitser
Russia frees WSJ reporter Evan Gershkovich in a major prisoner swap, report says
Russia freed Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich and former US Marine Paul Whelan in a ma…
Erin Snodgrass,Thibault Spirl…
Russia's economy faces a demographic disaster and risks seeing its population reduced by half by the end of this century, think tank says
"Putin's government has not evinced visible concern that Russia's population might be cut in half b…
Jennifer Sor
Russia wants to arrest Alexei Navalny's widow after resistance leader died in prison
Yulia Navalny is being charged with running an "extremist" organization as she accuses Vladimir Put…
Jacob Shamsian
Videos show the moment Americans were freed from Russian captivity after high-stakes prisoner swap
Russia freed Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, former US Marine Paul Whelan, and 14 ot…
Jake Epstein
Russia has a history of going after dissidents. One senior Kremlin official has now warned freed prisoners to 'disguise themselves.'
Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev warned freed dissidents to "adopt new names" and "disguise…
Cameron Manley
Russian prisoners sent to Ukraine must now fight until the end of the war rather than for 6 months, report says
Russian prisoners recruited to fight in Ukraine are no longer being sent for six months, the BBC re…
Sinéad Baker
Ukraine war analyst says Russia keeps surprising him with just how bad its soldiers are: 'The bar is very, very low'
Russia's soldiers are getting worse and worse as the war goes on, but Russia fights with mass, not …
Sinéad Baker
Russia hasn't done a single prisoner-of-war exchange in months: reports
The spokesperson for Ukraine's Coordination Center for the Treatment of Prisoners of War said the l…
Sonam Sheth
Photos show protests in Ukraine as prisoners of war held in Russia are being used to sow distrust of Kyiv, official says
A Ukrainian official said Russia is having prisoners of war call home and say Kyiv is doing nothing…
Kelsey Vlamis
Russia hands over hundreds of Ukrainian POWs in the war's largest prisoner swap, including troops who fought in the earliest battles
Kyiv said some soldiers released this week fought in Mariupol and defended Chernobyl, both of which…
Jake Epstein
Russia says a battalion made up of Ukrainian prisoners of war is about to be sent to fight against their own country
The soldiers took an oath to fight for Russia, state media said, and will likely be deployed to fro…
Chris Panella
Russian convicts who earned their freedom fighting Ukraine are going home with swagger and a stash of money to burn: NYT
Some prisoners-turned-soldiers are returning to Ukraine flush with cash, as they were paid more tha…