Current Time correspondent
Russian bloggers and tabloids warn of “black widows” -- women allegedly marrying soldiers to claim death benefits if they die fighting in Ukraine. The claims are stoking public outrage and raising questions about fraud, exploitation, and military secrecy.
Russian soldiers fighting in Ukraine are being warned about so-called "black widows" -- women who seduce and marry them with the aim of collecting their military death benefits. As RFE/RL's Andrey Cherkasov explains Russian social media, tabloids, and TV talk shows are full of accounts of the scams.
As Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy arrives in Washington to sign a deal with his U.S. counterpart, Donald Trump, on granting the United States access to his country's mineral wealth, Russia's tightly controlled media have been scrambling to keep up with the Kremlin's shifting narrative.