Yauhen Lehalau is a correspondent for RFE/RL's Russian Service.
Ukraine has launched a new offensive in Russia's Kursk region. Reporting from the ground is patchy and often contradictory, but one Russian village has emerged as a key focus of the fighting.
Russian troops in Ukraine increasingly have access to Starlink, the private satellite Internet network owned by Elon Musk that Ukraine's military relies on heavily for battlefield communications.
RFE/RL spoke with two Russian men who are fighting side by side with Ukrainian forces against the Russian military in the beleaguered city of Bakhmut as part of a group called the Free Russia legion.
