Video screen grab, via RFE/RL Igor Mangushev displayed what was purportedly the skull of a Ukrainian soldier at an August 2022 event in the Russian-occupied city of Donetsk. In the early days of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, as Moscow’s forces surged toward Kyiv, online photos of crosses on Ukrainian infrastructure sparked widespread fears of...
Crosses for chaos: How Russian ultranationalists used ‘missile markers’ to sow panic in Ukraine
By Yelizaveta Surnacheva and Systema / RFE/RL9 Mins Read