Despite its uncertain origins, Russia's Z insignia is a testament to the role of military symbols in nationalist myth-making and a powerful reminder of the ever-changing public relations landscape ...

Isabel van Brugen is a Newsweek Reporter based in Kuala Lumpur. Her focus is reporting on the Russia-Ukraine war. Isabel joined Newsweek in 2021 and had previously worked with news outlets ...

There have been cases where some Russian vehicles bore signs of districts they don't belong to. A serviceman waves from a military truck with the Z emblem parked in a street in Mykolaivka ...

The above image is the latest of several recent images showing overt leftist emblems used on the battlefield ... embrace of the aesthetic among Russia's military. Ian Garner, a historian and ...