‘They’re treating us like we’re idiots’ - Families are searching for Russian conscripts who disappeared during the Ukrainian incursion. The Defence Ministry insists they were never there | Meduza

On August 9, Russia’s Emergency Situations Ministry declared a federal-level emergency in the Kursk region, where Ukrainian forces had already been advancing for four days. Anywhere from several dozen to several hundred non-mobilized conscripts may have been in the region when Ukrainian troops cross...