January 27, 2026

27 January 2026

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Russia needs soldiers. The Global South has desperate people. The rest is exploitation.

After mobilization in September 2022 sent over 261,000 Russians fleeing the country, Putin found a third option: build a global trafficking infrastructure that spans from North Korea to Cuba, Nepal to Kenya, exploiting economic desperation to fuel a war that distant populations have no stake in, explained Munira Mustaffa, Senior Fellow at Verve Research

News

Six dead after Russian drones hit passenger train with 155 aboard (updated)

Three people have been confirmed dead. A man and a woman have also sought medical assistance

Russian strike on Odesa kills three, injures 25 including six children

Russian forces had deliberately targeted civilian residential areas. Shalyhailo added that almost 50 apartment buildings were damaged, with 10 sustaining significant damage

Russian shelling kills 3, injures 20 across Ukraine on January 25; 6 children among wounded

Russian shelling killed three civilians and injured nearly 20 others -- including six children -- across the Kherson and Donetsk regions on January 25, 2026. Additional injuries were reported in the Zaporizhzhia, Kharkiv, Mykolaiv, Dnipropetrovsk, and Sumy regions, according to the National Police of Ukraine

In the Kherson region, postal workers were rescued from under Russian shelling

The Ukrposhta officials were not injured in the strike and managed to hide, but the car was heavily damaged. The postal workers could not drive back because of the Russian shelling, so they turned to the police for help