The Kremlin’s military recruitment drives are down 20% this year compared to prior years, leading analysts to believe that Putin will launch a massively unpopular mobilization drive.

Frontline soldiers to get better salaries and revised fixed-term contracts; Putin reacts to Ukraine’s increasing drone strikes. What we know on day 1,571

Vladimir Putin signed a decree expanding the Armed Forces by nearly 10,000 personnel, coming directly alongside admissions that Ukrainian drones are crippling forces daily.