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The Russian military is top-heavy, with generals playing a larger role in day-to-day operations than in other militaries. [7] [85] Russian battalion commanders were given more authority only three years before the invasion. [13] According to analysts and Western officials, Russia had deployed approximately 20 general officers to Ukraine.
On 19 March 2024, Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the FSB to hunt down and “punish” Russians serving in the Ukrainian military and compared them to the Russian Liberation Army which had collaborated with Nazi Germany during World War II. [1]
On 22 February, a British military public figure and author of military books, James Gerard Richard Shortt [70] was killed fighting for the International Legion in Ukraine. [ 71 ] On 6 March, Major Andriy Lukanyuk [ uk ] , battalion commander in the 80th Air Assault Brigade and a veteran of the 2014 war, was killed by a Russian airstrike in ...
Separatist troops with captured Ukrainian weapons during the 2022 Russian invasion. During the prelude to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republic started a process of mass mobilization of its population in order to build an army for the Russian invasion. As there weren't enough volunteers in the ...
The Makiivka surrender incident happened during the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022 in the village of Makiivka, Luhansk Oblast. Videos depicted what appeared to be at least ten Russian soldiers surrendering to four Ukrainian soldiers in Makiivka. [1] Russian soldiers exited an outhouse one by one and laid facedown on the ground. [1]
An American fighting for Ukraine who served in the U.S. Army with combat tours in the Middle East described the constant Russian bombardment of the city of Severodonetsk in Ukraine’s Donbas ...
KYIV, Ukraine — Ukraine urgently needs new soldiers, but some — left uneasy by brutal fighting and intensifying conscription efforts — are desperately trying to avoid being called up ...
The AP identified calls made in March 2022 by soldiers in a military division that Ukrainian prosecutors say committed war crimes in Bucha, a town outside Kyiv that became an early symbol of ...