Russia Invades Ukraine. Again
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Russian families say soldiers killed in Ukraine are listed as missing or deserters to avoid death pay
March 22, 2026, 07:43 AM
https://english.nv.ua/nation/relatives-of-russian-armed-forces-soldier
s-complain-about-denied-payments-50593880.html
Wives and mothers of Russian soldiers killed in the war against Ukraine are increasingly taking to social media to complain about delays and denials of compensation payments, German tabloid Bild reported on March 21.
The complaints are appearing in chats and communities linked to pro-government organizations, where relatives are attempting to pressure authorities into providing assistance. Bild said it analyzed tens of thousands of messages from soldiers' families over the past six months.
Relatives say soldiers are frequently classified as missing in action or as deserters, preventing families from receiving compensation payments.
"The prosecutor's office makes no effort at all. We called everywhere, but the required documents often only arrive after a year," one woman wrote.
Under Russian law, the federal government is required to pay families of fallen servicemembers more than 13 million rubles ($157,000), with additional payments from regional budgets. However, payments are only disbursed after an official death confirmation.
Relatives say the paperwork process drags on for months or years. In some cases, documents list "undetermined cause of death" or fail to link the death to combat operations.
Russian independent outlets have previously reported that the military routinely classifies soldiers as missing in action when their bodies cannot be recovered from the battlefield. In such cases, families are forced to go to court to have the servicemember officially declared dead — a prerequisite for receiving any compensation.
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Quote:The above payment is the motivation:
Originally posted by second:
pay families of fallen servicemembers more than 13 million rubles ($157,000)
A new unofficial “instruction manual” appears to be circulating within Russia’s occupying army: finish off your wounded comrade, then take your own life, Ukraine’s Air Assault Forces said on March 22 as they published a video they said showed the practice. The military warned that the footage contains disturbing images. https://t.me/ua_dshv/8334#
“A real conveyor belt of self-destruction — this is the occupiers’ new ‘manual,’” the Air Assault Forces said. “It is brutally simple and terrifying at the same time: finish off your wounded comrade and then put a bullet in your own head.”
According to the Ukrainian military, constant pressure from fiber-optic drones, precision bomb drops, and artillery has created conditions in which Russian troops increasingly understand that evacuation is unlikely.
“While Ukraine’s Armed Forces fight for every life and pull their own soldiers out of the hottest positions, the enemy is simply erasing itself — platoon by platoon,” the statement said.
https://english.nv.ua/russian-war/ukraine-says-russian-troops-increasi
ngly-abandon-wounded-and-die-by-suicide-50593873.html
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Originally posted by second:Quote:Everything Trump says, does, or writes is an explanation for why his life has been troubled for decades. The same is true for every Trumptard I know. They literally are doing a constant broadcast for why they have trouble, but they don't tune in to the show they produce. Instead, all they know about themselves is the simple fable running inside their head, but not out in reality, that their troubles are caused by libtards. Russians have the same fables in their heads that Trumptard run, except their fables blame the Ukrainians and the West, rather than libtards.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
I'm not the one listening to a weatherman from big bad Russia and taking him seriously.
I'm not the one listening to a dumbass weatherman from big bad Russia who said the same damn thing 2 years ago and taking him seriously.
I'm not the one taking the word of "experts" who write bullshit slop like this while they feed it to you while you're on your knees constantly begging for more because you're insatiable.
You post 2 dozen anti-Trump, anti-American articles from so-called "experts" every day, and you've done so for the last 10 years straight.
Get some help. Your brain is beyond cooked brother.
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Be Evil. Be a dick.
You're the most fucked up person I know, dude.
Stop judging everyone else. You're the problem.
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Be Nice. Don't be a dick.
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Quote:6ix, you are pure evil, and I don't give a damn whether you are too far gone in depravity to know it. Why don't you smoke another cigarette and watch another 15 minutes of porn, since that's your everyday purpose in life, plus feeling superior to people who have real jobs that need doing and who don't need Trump's approval or that of Trumptards?
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
You're the most fucked up person I know, dude.
Stop judging everyone else. You're the problem.
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Be Evil. Be a dick.
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Inside the ‘underground railroad’ Ukraine is using to bring back children from Russia
By Ivana Kottasová, Svitlana Vlasova | March 21, 2026
https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/22/europe/ukraine-underground-railroad-res
cue-children-from-russia
Rostyslav Lavrov knew he had to escape. He was stuck at a Russian naval academy in occupied Crimea, where he was sent at the age of 16 after Moscow’s forces took over his hometown in Ukraine’s Kherson region. The school had even tried to give him a new – Russian – birth certificate to cement his transformation into a Russian.
He was determined not to let that happen. So, one day in October 2023, Lavrov said he walked out of his dorm, and embarked on a secret journey back to Ukraine.
Now 19 years old and living in Kyiv, Lavrov is one of the roughly 2,000 Ukrainian children and teenagers who have returned to their home country afterbeing either forcibly deported, illegally transferred to or stuck in Russia, Belarus or Russian-occupied areas of Ukraine.
Many of them, like Lavrov, had to leave clandestinely because getting out with Russian permission is nearly impossible.
Ukraine has rallied the world on the issue, building international coalitions to try to push Russia to cooperate. But its success has been limited. Less than a quarter of the 2,000 children who have returned so far came back came through official channels: 83 with the help of Qatar and 19 through a scheme spearheaded by US first lady Melania Trump.
Lavrov’s escape plan had been in the works for three months when he finally walked through the gates of the Russian school for the last time.
He had secretly managed to contact volunteers from Save Ukraine, a group that rescues children trapped in Russia and Russian-occupied territories. They set to work, arranging his way out.
“I chose a day when I had (classes) in another building. I got up in the morning, put on my uniform and did everything as normal so they would think I was going to study,” he told CNN, adding that Save Ukraine volunteers were waiting to pick him up at a nearby location.
“I didn’t take anything with me to avoid drawing attention to myself. I was nervous at the checkpoints, but I tried to stay calm and not show it.” He isn’t sure exactly how long it took him to make it to Ukrainian-held territory but estimates two days. He discovered later that the journey was perhaps even riskier than he thought – the Russian authorities had declared him “missing and wanted.”
Mykola Kuleba, the founder of Save Ukraine and Ukraine’s former children’s ombudsman, said Lavrov’s escape was not unusual in nature.
Save Ukraine’s founder Mykola Kuleba, seen at the group’s office, claims Moscow seeks to obstruct children's return to Ukrainian territory.
Photos of children brought back by the group are on display at Save Ukraine’s office.
“It’s like a special operation for every child,” he said, asking CNN not to reveal too many details to avoid putting anyone at risk. “We don’t work with the Russian authorities or any officials in occupied territories, because it’s really dangerous,” he said, explaining that, in his experience, giving them any information leads to complications. Once Moscow knows Ukraine wants a particular child, it will do anything it can to prevent them from returning, he claimed.
Yulia Dvornychenko experienced this kind of alleged Russian obstruction firsthand.
She was separated from her sons, Danylo, then 17, and Mark, 9, when she was arrested in 2021 at her home in Torez, an eastern Ukrainian town occupied by pro-Russia separatists since 2014. Accused of being a Ukrainian spy. She is a widow, and her new partner was arrested alongside her, so she was told that her children would be sent to a Russian orphanage unless she signed a false confession – which she did.
Eighteen months later, she was released in a prisoner of war (POW) exchange. Mark was still in Torez, living with a family friend, and Danylo lying low in Moscow, where he fled from Torez when it became clear he was at high risk of being drafte
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Ukrainian Commander-in-Chief General Oleksandr Syrskyi reported that Russian forces intensified ground attacks across the theater in the last week.
Syrskyi stated that the Russian military command is trying to bring up new forces and is counting on deteriorating spring weather conditions, like fog, to reduce the effectiveness of Ukrainian drone and artillery strikes for future assaults.[3] Syrskyi stated that the Russian military command deployed tens of thousands of servicemembers into highly attritional infantry-led assaults that resulted in more than 6,090 killed and wounded during the four-day period, for a daily average of about 1,520 casualties. Syrskyi stated that Russian forces lost a total of 8,710 troops during the last week (between roughly March 17 and 23). Such a high casualty rate is unsustainable given Russia’s current recruitment rates and would likely degrade Russia’s ability to wage such large assaults in the mid- to long-term. ISW continues to assess that Russian forces are unlikely to seize the Fortress Belt in 2026 but will likely make some tactical gains at a significant cost.[4]
Russian officials are already setting expectations in the domestic information space for slow advances and high casualties, however, with one Russian State Duma deputy stating on March 23 that all wars have casualties but that Russian forces will try to minimize casualties by advancing at a “leisurely pace” toward Slovyansk and Kramatorsk.[5]
https://understandingwar.org/research/russia-ukraine/russian-offensive
-campaign-assessment-march-23-2026/
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Undermining Ukraine’s EU ambitions
Ukraine has tried, repeatedly, to clean up its courts — but each attempt has run into the same roadblocks.
By Oleg Sukhov | March 23, 2026 8:02 PM
https://kyivindependent.com/entrenched-interests-thwart-ukraines-lates
t-judicial-overhaul-undermine-eu-accession/
A handful of controversial judges have been dismissed, and some changes have been enacted. But beneath the surface, a powerful clique is digging in its heels, making sure attempts at changing the system are stalled.
Lack of will
Tainted judges are supposed to be fired by the High Council of Justice, the judiciary's highest governing body.
But the council is reluctant to fire judges.
Since 2022, the High Qualification Commission has recommended firing 63 judges. The High Council of Justice has fired only 16 judges, refused to fire 10 and has not made any decisions on the rest.
A top judicial official told the Kyiv Independent that the High Council of Justice does not want to fire most of the tainted judges because it is waiting for Supreme Court rulings on them. The official believes, however, that this approach is unjustified.
The consequences are mounting: stalled reforms are now undermining Ukraine’s EU ambitions. Authorities have shown little urgency in adopting the European Commission’s recommendations on judicial reform.
As part of Ukraine's European integration, Brussels has demanded that international experts participate in checking the integrity of incumbent Supreme Court judges and firing them if they do not meet ethics standards.
However, the Ukrainian government has so far failed to meet this condition.
"With this quality of judges and law enforcement agencies, nobody will vote for our (EU accession),” Zhernakov said.
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Robert "Magyar" Brovdi, Commander of Ukraine's Unmanned Systems Forces, has said that wiping out one Russian soldier costs US$878 in matériel. He has also said the Unmanned Systems Forces currently wipe out 400 Russians for every one Ukrainian.
By Alona Mazurenko | 24 March, 14:51
https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2026/03/24/8026961/
Ukraine’s top drone commander wants to bleed Russia’s army dry
“Madyar” Brovdi has pioneered unmanned warfare methods NATO is yet to learn
Mar 22nd 2026
https://www.economist.com/europe/2026/03/22/ukraines-top-drone-command
er-wants-to-bleed-russias-army-dry
The road to the command point is rough, though the minivan’s blacked-out windows hide the details. On arrival its doors slide open to reveal the entrance to a world buried deep underground. Inside, one corridor is lined with two decks of Japanese-style sleeping pods. Behind a second corridor lies a gym. Wall after wall of screens relay live data feeds: kill chains, missions, enemy losses. A gallery of famous Ukrainian paintings hangs among missiles and explosives. A snuff video of Russian soldiers in their last moments of life runs on a loop next to an expressionist stone sculpture of a man’s face.
The darkly eccentric atmosphere is in keeping with the character of the man in charge. Before the invasion Robert “Madyar” Brovdi was a wheeler-dealer grain broker. Now the 50-year-old commander of Ukraine’s unmanned forces is a weathered warrior and the lead architect of a strategy to target drone power at individual Russian soldiers. Four years into the war, Ukraine’s central challenge has become not so much holding territory as removing Russians faster than the Kremlin can recruit them. For the first time, thanks in large part to Mr Brovdi’s efforts, this might now be happening.
Mr Brovdi analyses the figures in a windowless three-metre-square cubby-hole, chain-smoking cigarettes and sipping Fortnum & Mason tea, a nod to his prior life fraternising with the rich in London auction-houses. Russian losses have increased substantially since he took over last summer, aided by a revamped, gamified system that now prioritises enemy infantry. December marked a turning point, the first month when verified Russian losses to Ukrainian drones exceeded recruitment. Since the start of the winter, Ukrainian drones have killed or incapacitated at least 8,776 more soldiers than Russia has replaced. Russia continues to gain little ground in return for its losses. Even on its most successful axis, near the town of Kostiantynivka in the Donbas, it has taken just 23% of the territory called for in its winter campaign plan.
Mr Brovdi’s drone brigade, codenamed “Madyar’s birds”, claims it has been responsible for a sixth of the Russian losses. The wider unmanned-forces grouping he now controls accounts for more than a third. Those forces make up just 2% of the Ukrainian army’s headcount. At the December peak, enemy losses reached 388 a day, equivalent to the assault component of an entire battalion. “If a battalion has no infantry left, the Russians don’t disband it but throw desk officers to the front,” Mr Brovdi says. “They are the easiest targets, because they can’t fight.” His soldiers are ordered to target personnel, rather than armour or other equipment, at least 30% of the time. Russia can only train and equip so many recruits; Mr Brovdi likens it to a cow, and his units to farmers. “We need to keep milking this cow, the Russian army, for everything it’s worth, exhausting it beyond its maximum capacity.”
An ethnic Hungarian from Ukraine’s western borderlands, Mr Brovdi joined the war as a civilian volunteer. His rise was improbable but no accident. Applying business instincts to battlefield problems, he helped to develop Ukraine’s earliest drone capabilities. The first breakthrough came in the summer of 2022, when he was fighting on the Kherson front. The Ukrainians were outgunned and, worse, had no idea where the Russians were firing from. Mr Brovdi, still an inexperienced soldier, remembered a d
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Ukrainian forces have damaged a Russian military icebreaker in the Baltic Sea port of Vyborg amid a mass overnight attack, the General Staff reported on March 25.
The attack is the first known successful strike on Russian military ship in the Baltic Sea, almost 1,000 kilometers from Ukrainian territory.
The ship, identified by the General Staff as patrol icebreaker "Pruga," operated by the border guard wing of Russia's FSB secret police, was docked at the city's shipyard when it was hit, the General Staff said.
Photos purportedly taken the following day and posted on Telegram show a white ship keeled over on its side among other larger boats docked at the port.
According to the General Staff, the Pruga, belonging to a class of ships built at the shipyard known as Project 23550, is able to work both as an icebreaker and as a regular military warship.
According to Russian maritime media outlet Paluba, one such ship costs around 18 billion rubles ($222 million).
Picture and more at https://kyivindependent.com/russian-military-icebreaker-damaged-in-unp
recedented-baltic-sea-drone-strike-ukraine-claims/
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