Russia is suffering from "severe manpower shortages" in Ukraine, a US official told Reuters. The official said there is credible evidence suggesting Russia will soon enlist convicted criminals.

A criminal gang in Russia been accused of stealing recruitment payments for homeless people they forced to sign on to fight in the war in Ukraine. The scam in the Chelyabinsk and Sverdlovsk regions ...

Authorities in St. Petersburg have tried to get homeless people to enlist as military recruits for the war in Ukraine, as Russian forces reel from huge troop losses, local media reported. The ...

Here’s how bad the Kremlin’s recruiting problem is: the government has started going to shelters to try and get unhoused people to fill the ranks of its tattered contract army. Government officials in ...

Russian officials are trying to get homeless people to fight in Ukraine, according to a US official who also said that Russia is planning on enlisting convicted criminals. The unnamed US official ...

Some do it for the money; others for the motherland. Still others because they “just don’t have anything else to do.” Whatever their motivation, an unknown number of Siberia’s homeless have signed ...

Officials have seized men from restaurants, cafes, Metro stations, and workplaces, per the report. The Russian military has suffered significant losses since the start of the war in Ukraine. Russian ...

MOSCOW -- "Don't sleep, you'll freeze," Russians often say in a metaphoric admonishment against complacency. For people living on the street during the long, icy winter, the warning should be taken ...

The mayor of the Russian city of Yakutsk in Siberia, Yevgeny Grigoryev, has suggested sending homeless members of society to labor camps to prevent them from "corrupting people." "Homeless people are ...

A homeless cat in Russia has won praise for keeping warm a baby boy abandoned in a chilly entrance-way. The story took place in the town of Obninsk in the Kaluga region, where the baby was abandoned ...

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