How We Tracked Abuses in the Russian Army

By Paul Sonne, Nikolay Nikolov, Rebecca Suner, David Jouppi, Alina Lobzina, Milana Mazaeva, Nataliya Va

Wednesday, December 31, 2025

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How We Tracked Abuses in the Russian Army

President Vladimir Putin has claimed that the Russian society can tolerate the high human cost of the war in Ukraine. But we’ve analyzed more than 6,000 official complaints by soldiers and their loved ones that paint a very different picture. Our international correspondent Paul Sonne explains how the documents offer rare insight into a violent military apparatus willing to abuse its own men to keep up the assault in Ukraine.

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This article was originally published by Paul Sonne, Nikolay Nikolov, Rebecca Suner, David Jouppi, Alina Lobzina, Milana Mazaeva, Nataliya Va. Read the original at rss.nytimes.com

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