A Russian soldier was wrapped in clingfilm, suspended upside down from a tree and brutally beaten by his own commander.

They train to face enemy fire, to survive chaos, and to defend orders on the battlefield. What few ever expect, however, is to die before the fight begins, not at the hands of an enemy, but through ...

The way Artyom Bykov ended up in the Russian Army's 273rd Artillery Brigade was bad enough. In November 2024, he says he was sitting in a Moscow region police precinct house, listening to officers ...