AS Armistice Day approaches, EMMA CLAYTON looks back to the centenary of the Battle of the Somme, when she visited a French village where ...

With his "Farewell to Arms" initiative, Alexander, a deserter from the Russian army who fought in Ukraine, aims to inspire ...

However, in a landmark case, France has allowed several Russian army deserters to enter the country to seek refugee status. Anti-war activists hope it will prompt more Russian soldiers to flee.

They oppose the Ukraine war, and now want to apply for asylum. "Deserters are not traitors, and desertion is not a crime, because there is no other way out of this situation," said Alexander.

Deserters face harsh punishment under Russian law, and it is almost impossible for them to travel to "safe" countries outside the Kremlin’s sphere of influence. The six soldiers arrived in ...

Six Russian soldiers who fled the fighting in Ukraine have found refuge in France and hope to receive asylum, in a landmark case of Russian deserters being welcomed in an EU country as a group.