Andy Hayward

VICE World News went behind the scenes of Russia’s only independent TV station, TV Rain, which was forced out of the country for reporting honestly on Ukraine.

VICE World News gains rare access to a conscription centre in Moscow to see if Vladimir Putin drafting 300,000 new soldiers has changed Russians’ perceptions of the war in Ukraine.

An atmosphere of suspicion is leading a growing number of Russians to denounce their friends, neighbours and even relatives to the police for opposing Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine.

After the Belarusian government crushed a pro-democracy movement last year, the EU responded with sanctions. Now the bloc is accusing the country’s authoritarian leadership of purposefully pushing thousands of migrants across its borders.

Permafrost thawing in Siberia is revealing tusks from woolly mammoths that have been dead for 4,000 years, which some Russians are now making a living from.

VICE World News meets people stuck in freezing conditions on the Bosnia and Herzegovina-Croatia border, where they say police are kicking them around ‘like a football.’

“Without fans, it’s not football. Football lives from the fans.”

“If I was one of those parents, I just would be beside myself.”

“I am scared. I am pregnant. Please let me leave," one resident told VICE News.

Cracks are reaching up toward the arctic mining town's center, caused by the continued expansion of excavation.

The lockdowns will eventually lift, but Russians worry the widespread use of this technology is here to stay.

Putin claims Russia has curtailed the spread of the pandemic, but he also called for more tests and medical supplies.