Russia continues to wage war in Ukraine, spending billions on military equipment. Meanwhile, many Russians live in extreme poverty, with little more than barracks for homes and mud in place of roads.

Russia continues to wage war in Ukraine, spending billions on military equipment. Meanwhile, many Russians live in extreme poverty, often with barracks for homes and mud instead of roads.

TASS/. Although poverty grew in Russia amid the pandemic, the authorities managed to curb its growth by employing selective measures to support the public, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov told ...

Russia's invasion of Ukraine has pushed up prices ... "We've calculated that there will be a further 1.3 million people pushed into poverty, and half a million of those are children." ...

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