The 35-year-old was a rice farmer when the junta seized power in a 2021 coup, adding pro-democracy guerillas to the long-running civil conflict between the military and ethnic armed groups.

BELGOROD, March 9. /TASS/. The Ukrainian army used more than 130 drones to attack districts of Russia’s Belgorod Region over the past 24 hours, Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov reported. "Ten ...