Later on she was often confused with Lydia Spivak, aka “Anna Pavlova”, another traffic regulator who in May 1945, as Soviet soldiers approached the Brandenburg Gate, grabbed her rifle and ...

More than 100,000 German and Axis troops ended up encircled by Soviet soldiers in the frozen city of Stalingrad in early 1943. Aware that their time was short, many soldiers penned their final ...

"Russia's own troops are not enough" to push Ukraine out of the Russian border region, Kyiv's top commander has said.

World War II lived up to its name ... should remain indelibly imprinted on our minds. A fallen Soviet soldier still grips a hand grenade while another takes aim at German invaders during ...

Russian troops have sustained the highest number of casualties in a single day since the start of all-out war in Ukraine in February 2022, according to figures from Kyiv's military, as Russia ...

Russia promised to hold its biggest World War II commemorations "in history" next year, as it marks 80 years since the Soviet Union defeated Nazi Germany.