Confession“Photos of Putin and Kadyrov were in the dean’s office, like icons”: Russian students expelled for their anti-war views share their storiesViktoriia Ponomareva5 March 2025
Confession“We ditched our uniforms and hid in a swamp”: Chechen POWs from “Akhmat” share their accounts from KurskMKMikhail Kalinin27 February 2025
Confession“The only way to wash away the shame is with weapons”: Why Russian volunteers choose to fight for UkraineVVasily Krestyaninov30 December 2024
Confession“Their shouts of ‘Allahu Akbar’ drowned out our footsteps as we approached from the back”: Confessions of Ukrainian scoutsMAMaxim Akimov6 December 2024
Confession“For 72 days I was electrocuted, beaten, not allowed to eat or sleep”: how Russian convicts are driven to “meat-grinder assaults”Viktoriia Ponomareva31 October 2024
Confession“They tied me to a tree and said: ‘We’re gonna put you down now.’ There were 30 bodies in a ditch nearby”: Confessions of a Russian deserterThe Insider 20 August 2024
Confession“Shreds of bodies hung from the branches”: Confessions of “meat grinder” assault veteransViktoriia Ponomareva8 May 2024
Confession“Dying isn’t as bad as being a Russian POW”: Freed Ukrainian soldiers speak out about their time in Russian captivityViktoriia Ponomareva15 April 2024
Confession“We were handed envelopes with 'incentives' for delivering favorable results”: A Russian election official's confessionNKNadezhda Kolobaeva15 March 2024
Confession“It’s gut-wrenching to read accounts of torture and not be able to offer any comfort”: Confessions of Russian political prisoners’ wivesEEkaterina Pachikova24 December 2023NKNadezhda Kolobaeva24 December 2023
Confession“I know that my hands are elbow-deep in blood”: Confessions of Russian deserters The Insider 11 December 2023
Confession“Terrorists looked for children by following the sound of their screams”: How Russian-speaking families in Israel are surviving the warNNikita Aronov1 December 2023
ConfessionUnder the watchful eye of “Nikolai Nikolaevich”: How the FSB's surveillance unit monitors journalists and foreignersSKSergey Kanev10 November 2023
Confession“Everyone tries to enlist God on their side”: Orthodox priests reflect on ROC split over war in Ukraine MMarina Dulneva5 October 2023
Confession“I convinced him not to enlist, but they took him anyway”: Confessions of mothers and wives of inmates who died in the Russia-Ukraine warMMarina Dulneva8 September 2023
Confession“Defending Ukraine, we're fighting for our honor tarnished by Kadyrovites”: Confessions of Chechen AFU fightersViktoriia Ponomareva4 August 2023
Confession“It is truly shocking to see how much they've been brainwashed”: confessions of sex workers who cater to Russian soldiersMCMilan Czerny 13 July 2023
Confession“After what we’ve seen, all problems seem trivial.” Confessions of war correspondents working in UkraineViktoriia Ponomareva7 July 2023
Confession“A battle over smoldering ruins”: The defense of Bakhmut through the eyes of a Ukrainian soldierYuriy Matsarsky22 March 2023
Confession“The food was delicious as long as journalists kept visiting.” How Ukrainian refugees live in RussiaNNikita Aronov22 February 2023
Confession“A local girl asked: 'Do you really believe you're liberating us from the Nazis?'” Confessions of Russian and Soviet Occupation WitnessesDFDiana Fishman25 January 2023
Confession“They sawed my husband's teeth off, he screamed in pain, and I heard it all”: Kherson locals on life under Russian occupationViktoriia Ponomareva5 January 2023
Confession“Had to crawl past severed arms and legs for a long time, can't eat meat anymore”. How AFU fighters cope with PTSDNNikita Aronov10 December 2022
Confession“Erdogan is worse than Putin because he has an ideology.” Confessions of a journalist whom Turkey wants Sweden to trade for NATO membershipThe Insider 8 December 2022
ConfessionSilver smokescreen. Russian film industry workers on censorship and wartime propagandaYPYekaterina Pachikova and Nadezhda Kolobaeva 9 November 2022
Confession“This is my land, I am ready to kill for it”. How Ukrainian women fight on the front lineViktoriia Ponomareva3 November 2022
Confession“You look through dead bodies and can't find the person you're looking for.” Izium residents recount how their city was destroyedThe Insider 30 September 2022
Confession“One hour in Bucha is worse than eight months in Afghanistan”: Confessions of an American legionnaire in UkraineKonstantin Eggert20 September 2022
Confession“The core of Azovstal's defenders were superheroes”: Confessions of Ukrainian POWs who made it back homeThe Insider 6 September 2022
Confession“Prigozhin says right away 80% will not be coming back”. How inmates are recruited into Wagner PMC to fight in UkraineAKAlyona Koroleva18 August 2022
Confession“It’s those who are against war that have to deal with its consequences”. How volunteers help Ukrainian refugees in RussiaAKAlyona Koroleva3 August 2022
Confession“They're taking my future away from me!” How Russian journalism grads and first-year applicants see their prospectsDFDiana Fishman25 June 2022
ConfessionOutdated charts and planes stripped for parts: An Aeroflot pilot on flying in times of warThe Insider 24 June 2022
Confession«I masked the PRESS caption on my helmet to use it in combat» Journalist Yuriy Matsarsky on waging war in UkraineYuriy Matsarsky17 June 2022
ConfessionConfessions of an oil trader: What it's like to do business with Putin's friendsAnastasia Kirilenko30 March 2019