Russian President Vladimir Putin is purging his government and the military of supporters of the Wagner mercenary forces after their June 24 “march for freedom” on Moscow. While he seeks to refortify his regime he continues to lose ground in…
The aborted June 23-24 heavily armed convoy headed toward the Kremlin by Yevgeny Prigozhin, head of the Wagner mercenary army, has exposed the weaknesses of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s rule. Cracks inside his regime have been brought into the open…
The seizure of the Russian city of Rostov-on-Don by Yevgeny Prigozhin’s Wagner mercenaries and their aborted armed march on Moscow highlight the dangers for working people in Russia, Ukraine and worldwide in the crisis unfolding within Vladimir Putin’s secret-police-based capitalist…
The Ukrainian government has launched a counteroffensive aimed at retaking territory seized by Moscow’s forces since Russian President Vladimir Putin invaded the country to try to subjugate its people. Ukrainian forces are making slow gains in fierce battles, while the…
Moscow’s forces are exhausted and hemmed in as they try to maintain their tenuous occupation of the destroyed eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut. They incurred heavy losses during the 10-month-long effort to take the city. This is sharpening conflicts in…
On May 20 Yevgeny Prigozhin’s Wagner mercenary army claimed it had pushed Ukrainian forces defending Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine out of the devastated city. For nine months it has been the bloodiest battleground in Russian President Vladimir Putin’s attempts to…
The Crimean Tatar people have fought for centuries to defend their national rights as a people, since they were conquered and subjugated by Czarina Catherine II in 1783. May 18 marked the 79th anniversary of the forced deportation of Crimean…
Moscow’s troops have been pushed back by Ukrainian forces in Bakhmut, the primary target of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s winter offensive. The retreat was a blow to Putin who predicted control of the city by May 9, a celebration marking…
Hit with a new wave of cruise missile strikes on Kyiv and aerial attacks on other cities, working people in Ukraine deepened their determination to resist Moscow’s assaults on their independence. At home, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s regime is tightening…
With its invading forces unable to overcome staunch Ukrainian resistance, Moscow resumed long-range airstrikes aimed at doing maximum damage to civilians, their homes and work sites in Ukraine at the end of April. Working people there are at the center…
