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How to escape Russia’s army: Soldiers serving in Ukraine seek a way out

Russia’s army faces a desertion crisis as it continues to use waves of soldiers to attack Ukraine’s defensive positions.

Russian service members take part in a ceremonial handover of humanitarian aid provided by employees of the truckmaker Kamaz, mediated by the People's Front political movement and intended for Russia's army involved in the ongoing military conflict against Ukraine, in Rostov-on-Don, Russia, February 20, 2026. REUTERS/Sergey Pivovarov

‘Sent to be killed’: How Russia forces migrants to fight in Ukraine

Life expectancy on the front line for Central Asian migrants forced to fight for Russia in Ukraine is just four months.

Russia Conscripts

The Sea of Azov: Ukraine’s loss but hardly Russia’s gain

The colossal steel plants along Ukraine’s side of the sea are unrestorable ruins since Russia’s invasion.

Sea of Azov

Ukraine’s veterans’ theatre turns war wounds into catharsis

Wounded soldiers, wives and widows workshop ideas and stage plays in Kyiv, bringing the audience to tears.

Actress Kateryna Svyrydenko plays Maryna, a soldier's wife in Twenty One, a play staged in Kyiv's Veterans' Theater [Mansur Mirovalev/Al Jazeera]

‘Smell’ of war comes to St Petersburg as Ukraine hammers Russian refineries

Ukraine aims to drain Russia’s war chest with drone strikes on Pokrovsk and Ust-Luga oil facilities on the Baltic Sea.

Primorsk

How extensive is Russia’s military aid to Iran?

Russia has long exchanged weapons with Iran and is likely offering satellite support, but lacks the will to do much more

Iranian missile strikes

In Ukraine’s Kharkiv, 20,000 children go underground to study

Subway schools provide safety as Russian assaults have killed dozens of children in Ukraine’s second-largest city.

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Ukraine records first territorial gains since 2023 amid Russian army woes

As Kyiv liberates parts of Dnipropetrovsk and Zaporizhia, Zelenskyy says Russia losing up to 35,000 soldiers a month.

People walk near a building of a children's hospital, damaged by recent shelling that local Russian-installed authorities called a Ukrainian military strike, while the hospital was under maintenance with no patients inside, in the course of the Russia-Ukraine military conflict in Donetsk, a Russian-controlled city of Ukraine, March 8, 2026. REUTERS/Alexander Ermochenko TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

Amid Iran war, will Russia exploit Ukraine’s shortage of Patriot missiles?

Zelenskyy says more US-made Patriot defence systems were used in three days of the Iran war than in Ukraine since 2022.

FILE PHOTO: Ukrainian service members walk next to a launcher of a Patriot air defence system, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in an undisclosed location, Ukraine August 4, 2024. REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko/File Photo

‘Russian oil will be sought’: What are Moscow’s gains from the war in Iran?

Russia, one of Iran’s few allies, could profit from the war as it navigates diplomatic relations with Iran and Israel.

A portrait of Iran's late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed in Israeli and U.S. strikes on Saturday, stands among flowers and toys outside the Iranian Embassy in Moscow, Russia March 2, 2026. REUTERS/Ramil Sitdikov