Vladimir Putin’s Russian army is using convicts as “cannon fodder” in a desperate bid to make headway in Ukraine, a new report has claimed. Meanwhile Yevgeny Prigozhin has admitted the Wagner Group, Russia’s mercenary army, which he bankrolls, is struggling in its
Captured Russian soldier says they are used as ‘cannon fodder’ Russian President Vladimir Putin is believed to have ordered Wagner Group troops to withdraw from Ukraine. Some 50,000 mercenary troops are thought to make up the mercenary army, consisting of ex-soldiers from
An Austrian court has convicted four men of terrorist offenses and participation in murder over their alleged links to a sympathizer of the Islamic State group who carried out a deadly shooting in Vienna in 2020. Two of the men were sentenced
Vladimir Putin appears poised to give the green light to the recruitment of female prisoners in a desperate bid to boost troop numbers in Ukraine. The Russian army has sustained massive casualties in its year-long war with its once close neighbour. Ukraine
A court convicted the president of the Turkish Medical Association on Wednesday of disseminating “terror organization propaganda” following a trial that human rights groups had denounced as an attempt to silence government critics. The court in Istanbul sentenced Dr. Sebnem Korur Fincanci
Head of Russia’s mercenary Wagner Group released the first round of convicts who traded jail time for the war in Ukraine, reports said Thursday. A video was posted by Russian state-owned media RIA showed Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin addressing the convicted recruits