"Commanders of Failure" documents corruption, property and war crimes of top Russian military-political leadership and military units in the context of the war against Ukraine — based on open sources, without speculation and without anonymous "Kremlin sources".
While generals build palaces and buy yachts, thousands of mobilized Russians die in meat assaults. We believe every soldier has the right to know the truth about those who send them to death, and every citizen — to see what happens to the difference between an official's stated salary and their actual property.
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