at finest an aggregator, however by identical token they’re principally simply relaying reviews from elsewhere so their articles are solely pretty much as good as the particular sources cited. Click on on creator and identical particular person at newsweek is writing about depp/heard case & uvalde capturing, so clearly no added experience…
Deceptive lead-in by them imho — citing the supply as the Russian information outlet Caucasus.Realities. when it’s a part of radio free europe / radio liberty, which after all is US govt funded. Was not less than based mostly in russia, however imagine they needed to droop operations there lately after russia cracked down on international backed media.
Do not see the report on their web site, which is odd. https://www.rferl.org/creator/caucasus-realities/ryuuqm Possibly embedded in one other RFL article someplace.
That mentioned, the declare comes right down to russian fighters having their pay set in international forex phrases (which appears stunning, however a selected declare that may be verified i suppose) again when warfare was kicking off and ruble FX fee meant that was quite a lot of rubles. now that the alternate fee has rallied again (formally not less than), meaning far fewer rubles.
edit: really they in all probability do most reporting in russian and I am simply not seeing that through google searches.