Articles with a tag: Russian troops

Since the beginning of the Russian full scale invasion into Ukraine, the Russian Armed Forces have regularly turned occupied South of Ukraine into its military base and used civilians as “human shield”. 

Russian occupants use illegally “expropriated” private houses, apartments, resort complexes and hotels as their military barracks and hospitals. Ukrainian factories are exploited to repair Russian damaged military equipment and armored vehicles. Russian troops have also turned Ukrainian natural reserves and agricultural lands into military training grounds where Russian soldiers learn how to kill Ukrainians. 

The Center for Journalist Investigations identified more than twenty training camps of the Russian Army on occupied lands to the north from the Sea of Azov and Black Sea. Their total area is around 50 thousand hectares.