new video uploaded: How We Tracked Abuses in the Russian Army
President Vladimir Putin has claimed that Russian society can withstand the high human cost of the war in Ukraine. But we analyzed more than 6,000 official complaints from soldiers and their families, which paint a very different picture. Our international correspondent Paul Sonne explains that the documents offer a rare insight into a violent military apparatus willing to abuse its own men to continue the offensive in Ukraine.
Paul Sonne, Nikolay Nikolov, Rebecca Suner, David Jouppi, Alina Lobzina, Milana Mazaeva, Natalia Vasilyeva, Nikita Pavlov and Arijeta Lajka
December 31, 2025
