and brutal war techniques led Stalingrad to become one of the most horrific battles of the war. The city was finally liberated when German forces surrendered in January of 1943. The Battle of ...

Isolated pockets of German troops continued fighting amid the ruins of Stalingrad for another two or three days after that but these clashes failed to have any effect on the outcome of the battle ...

Mr Putin was in Volgograd to mark the anniversary of the end of World War Two's Battle of Stalingrad, which saw the Soviet army capture nearly 91,000 German troops in a major turning point of the war.