A one-eyed russian invader on the Pokrovsk direction complains that he was left wounded somewhere in a tree line. Yesterday I got blown up on some shit. I’m sick of these fucking mines! They just scatter all kinds of shit, those fuckers. Already, like five times this year, I’ve been blown up.

 

Commanders in the russian army routinely humiliate, beat, and degrade their subordinates. In this footage, a commander mocks two servicemen in a pit, forcing them to catch bread crumbs, suggesting they are otherwise starved

 

New research estimates Russian forces have suffered more than 1 million casualties in its war against Ukraine. At the same time, Russia's territorial gains have been some of the slowest in modern history. Special correspondent @SimonOstrovsky got a rare look at the Kremlin's war machine. In this report, he reveals the brutality and the corruption eating away at the Russian military from the inside.

 

“Just send him those 300k already, or they’ll put me back in the pit again.” A russian invader sent a video to his wife asking her to pay the 82nd Regiment commander, to stop him from being beaten and throw him into a pit.

 

A russian invader recorded a cry for help after exposing his commander for collecting money from servicemen to buy a vehicle for combat tasks, only to register it in his own name instead of assigning it to the unit. He then reported threats to his life, including being “zeroed”

 

Between battles

 

Russian “elites” have had enough of Putin. “They all view the current center of power as already a toxic figure — not even an active force, but a toxic passive one.” — Maksim Kalashnikov, Russian war blogger and author. March 2026