‘Rapists and murderers’ in Russian army rampage while home from front

Russian soldiers at home have been killing, maiming, raping and looting at record rates since the start of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

The number of murders also appears to be increasing year-on-year. In 2025, the total sum was one-and-a-half times more than in 2024 and 16 times more than in the first year of the full-scale war.

Sexual violence committed by soldiers also climbed sharply. Between 2022 and 2025, courts reviewed 549 cases of rape and other forms of sexual assault. At least 312 involved minors and almost 250 involved young children under the age of 14. 2025 alone saw 248 cases, making it a record year.

Cases of robbery and looting, too, have seen distinct increases. 659 cases of robbery and armed robbery involving servicemen were filed from 2022 to the end of 2025. The real figure is likely to be many times higher, since looting in conflict zones and border regions rarely result in court cases or prosecutions.

The authors of the report caution that the real figures are likely to be far higher than the available data shows. Court records do not account for cases still being investigated and former soldiers are not included in the data … There is also almost no data available from the occupied territories of Ukraine, where Russian soldiers are likely to feel an even greater sense of impunity in pillaging and committing violent and sexual crimes.

Sanchez’s hypocritical stance is obvious. It has nothing to do what others do.

Spain’s PM is a hypocritical politician who has no problem to collaborate with dictatorships like China and Iran, while at the same time not only criticizing his allies in the EU but even undermining European security.

Whataboutism? The US, Russia, North Korea, and many others are also committing terrible crimes.

But all this doesn’t heal Sanchez’s double standards regarding Iran while at the same time cooperating with dictatorships like China. This is about Spain and his PM.

The next whataboutism?

Sanchez is just trying to distract from corruption scandals involving close political allies, his wife, and his brother, followed by lost regional election in Spain of late, dozens of dead victims in train crashes, … he just fights for his job, he is a fundamentally immoral and hypocritical personality.

You don’t refer to my comment.

It is hypocritical to oppose one human rights violation like the war in Iran, but then collaborate with a dictatorship like China that is committing crimes against humanity on a large scale.

Then read my comment again. It is hypocritical to oppose one human rights violation like the war in Iran, but then collaborate with a dictatorship like China that is committing crimes against humanity on a large scale.

It is deeply hypocritical. You can’t collaborate with Iran, China, and other dictatorships and then speak of human rights. Sanchez seeks to distract from his own troubles - a series of corruption scandals, the recent train crashes, his Socialist party’s lost regional elections of late.

Sanchez is (rightfully) criticizing the US war on Iran citing human rights and the rule of law here while he has apparently no problem to actively seek cooperation with dictatorships, which often even undermines European security. For example, he has no problem cooperating with China in complete disregard of Beijing’s decades long rights violations and crimes against humanity. It’s deeply hypocritical.

More manufactured consent.

This is usually a standard response of tankies and other left-wing extremists if they don’t have any arguments, often followed by whataboutism (Iraq, Afghanistan, …).

Sanchez is a hypocritical politician who has no problem to collaborate with (and praises!) dictatorships like China and Iran, while at the same time not only criticizing his allies in the EU but even undermining European security.

I don’t support the US war against Iran, but Sanchez’s staged morality here is unbearable and disqualifies him as a democratic leader.

This news comes from an international NGO. Spain’s opposition and former ruling party may be as corrupt as the socialists, but pointing the finger to them now seems odd. The corruption scandals in Sanchez’s private and political environment are well known.

This is de facto a death sentence for the ‘crime’ of telling the truth.

This @schizoidman is posting exclusively pro-China/pro-Russia and anti-Western content with mostly low-quality content and misleading titles (and sometimes from questionable far left-wing or far right-wing sources, their last post has been deleted here just a few minutes ago if I got that right).

What is this here?

Maybe we’ll see a future of several global trade blocs with Cold War-like trade restrictions for dual-use goods between these blocs, accompanied by a tit-for-tat trade rather than deeper trade agreements?

Maybe the EU will have some free trade agreements (Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, South Korean,and maybe some countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America like the Mercosur members), and more tit-for-tat trade with all others?

Not necessarily ‘de-coupling’ but ‘de-risking.’ For Europe this would definitely mean EV, solar panels, cloud infrastructure, and other critical products will be made in Europe?

If this is the way, it will be not easy for Europe, but a disaster for China and the US in the long run as they rely heavily on Europe in their product trade and service industries, respectively.

Just my 2 cents.

I read this but what exactly is USA-centric here? The article is only citing Ukrainian sources if I didn’t miss something, and it only mentions the U.S. briefly (talking about “EU and US controls” of sanctions). And given the EU is not exactly far away from Ukraine it’s highly relevant I would say (even more than for the US imo).

What would you write differently if I may ask?

PM Sanchez is a right-wing politician?

Renta 4 analyst Nuria Alvarez said consumer credit would be a key driver for Spanish banking profitability in 2026, alongside corporate lending, asset management and insurance.

Good for banks?

The whole article looks at consumer loans rather than the economy, and the Spanish data doesn’t look too good imo.

Sanchez has been facing a growing list of corruption scandals and sexual harassment allegations involving his political allies and family members. Just read the news. His stance on Gaza and human rights is a show as he isn’t asking China - which he considers an “ally” - about the country’s human rights abuses, just to name an example. Just read the news. I don’t buy into his moral stance.

This is very bad but, unfortunately, not new. We have seen this for some time.

The worst thing in this context likely is that Europe might still be better than other large polluters, especially the U.S., Russia, and China, the world’s largest polluter.

Yes, and Sanchez and his party have close ties to China. Sanchez’s government even contracted China’s Huawei with the country’s judicial wiretap system (while at the same time banned Huawei from its public telcom network over security reasons). So the Spanish law enforcement, including those fighting corruption, now depends on China.

And let us not forget the Gate Center, a Spanish-Chinese so-called ‘think tank’ with close ties to the government.

[Edit typo.]

Sanchez is a ‘left winger’ that acts ‘on behalf of general wellbeing’?That’s satire, right?