Photo: Konstantin Tulinov / screenshot from BesogonTV video Russian authorities admitted for the first time that prisoners are involved in the war in Ukraine A story about one of the victims was shown on “Russia 1” in the program “Besogon TV” The Vesti program on the Rossiya-1 channel showed an excerpt from Nikita Mikhalkov’s Besogon TV program, where he talks about the “heroic” death of prisoner Konstantin Tulinov in Donbass. “He could be released in February 2023.

Photo: EPA/Scanpix/LETA How Russia is circumventing sanctions on the import of weapons components Russian weapons contain Western components that could have entered the country through shady schemes and continue to arrive in Russia even after a full-scale war has broken out. The weapons the Russian army is using in its war with Ukraine rely heavily on Western electronics, which Russia has failed to produce an alternative to.