Despite the Kremlin’s push to recruit more men to go to Ukraine and fill the depleted ranks of its army there, the city of Moscow, which has never sent a share equal to its percentage of the population sent a quarter fewer men to Ukraine in 2025 than it did a year earlier; and they were of significantly lower quality, a Vyortska investigation finds.

Since Putin launched his expanded war in Ukraine in 2022, the Kremlin has disproportionately drawn men from impoverished ethnic........

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