13/ Leaks from the Russian army suggest that at least 48,000 people deserted between September 2022 and November 2024. 36,000 of them were subjected to criminal cases for desertion.
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Commanders wrongly declaring soldiers deserters
However, commanders have abused their powers to declare soldiers as deserters even when they were still alive and serving with the unit. One soldier who was wounded and undergoing treatment in Russia was declared a deserter while still in hospital.
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Soldier killed, body unrecoverable, deserter status not revoked
9/ Despite this, another soldier told Dmitry's wife that her husband had died and the coordinates of his body were known. It was not possible to recover it because of constant shelling, but the military authorities refused to rescind his status as a deserter.
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Prisoner recruited then declared a deserter
On September 2024, 25-year-old Dmitry was recruited from a prison and sent on his first mission near Toretsk in the Donetsk region alongside eight others. None of them returned. The entire group was declared deserters three weeks later.
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99% of Missing Russians Likely Died Unrecovered on Ukraine Front Line
2/ Huge numbers of Russians have gone missing during the war in Ukraine. According to the Russian journalist Anastasia Kashevarova, who has campaigned for more to be done to find the missing, 99% of them will have died on the front line but have not been recovered.
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Russian commanders falsely declare missing soldiers deserters for extortion
1/ Russian commanders have falsely declared potentially thousands of missing and dead soldiers to be deserters, as well as using such declarations for extortion. Relatives say they are being deprived of compensation payments and accuse commanders of concealing their losses.
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Separate Regiment of Nemesis Unmanned Systems Forces destroys Russian tanks
❗️Separate Regiment of 🇺🇦Nemesis Unmanned Systems Forces destroys 🇷🇺Russian tanks on various fronts pic.twitter.com/pFHrykLtWf
— 🪖MilitaryNewsUA🇺🇦 (@front_ukrainian) 25 juin 2025Separate Regiment of Nemesis Unmanned Systems Forces destroys Russian tanks on various fronts
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Ukrainian MiG-29 destroys Russian base
❗️🇺🇦Ukrainian MiG-29 fighter jet using 🇺🇸American GBU62 precision-guided bomb destroys 🇷🇺Russian base in South pic.twitter.com/c7aCIciMaq
— 🪖MilitaryNewsUA🇺🇦 (@front_ukrainian) 25 juin 2025A Ukrainian MiG-29 fighter jet, armed with an American GBU-62 precision-guided bomb, has destroyed a Russian base in southern Ukraine.
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Air raid alert in Sumy region.
Air raid alert in Sumy region.
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Using frozen Russian assets: Ukraine will receive 350 UK-made missiles for air defense
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