Late last summer, a plot of land on the edge of a small farming community in southern Russia began to fill with scores of newly dug graves of fighters killed in Ukraine.

A rapidly expanding cemetery in Russian village reveals Wagner’s prisoner army

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Russia is considering allowing cryptocurrency for international payments: Report

After a 90-minute phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin, French President Emmanuel Macron's aide said the Russian president could "increase demands" during talks with Ukraine officials.

Macron phone call: Putin aiming to seize whole of Ukraine, says aide

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Wednesday called Russian President Vladimir Putin a war criminal after civilians were bombed in Ukraine. "What we have seen already from Vladimir Putin's regime, in the use of the munitions that they have already been dropping on innocent civilians, in my view already fully qualifies as a war crime," he told parliament.

UK PM Boris Johnson says Russia already guilty of 'war crime' in Ukraine