new video uploaded: How we monitored abuses in the Russian army
President Vladimir Putin asserted that Russian society can tolerate the high human cost of the war in Ukraine. But we analyzed more than 6,000 official complaints from soldiers and their loved ones that paint a very different picture. Our international correspondent Paul Sonne explains how the documents offer a rare insight into a violent military apparatus willing to abuse its own people to continue its offensive in Ukraine.
Paul Sonne, Nikolay Nikolov, Rebecca Suner, David Jouppi, Alina Lobzina, Milana Mazaeva, Nataliya Vasilyeva, Nikita Pavlov and Arijeta Lajka
December 31, 2025




