In the freezing winter of 1939, the Soviet Union launched an invasion of Finland, expecting an easy victory. Instead, they ...

Russia’s ambassador to China says Xi returned invitation for Putin to visit China to mark Sino-Japanese war anniversary later ...

After the Russian revolution in 1917, the new Soviet government formed a Workers’ and Peasants’ Red Army. The first of 10,000 ...

A member of Russian State Duma’s Defense Committee cited World War II precedents, saying that field artillery was once ...

Ukraine military's estimates suggest Russian tank and personnel losses have reached a dire new peak last week.

MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday (Jan 27) praised Soviet soldiers for ending the "total evil" of Auschwitz on the 80th anniversary ...

Regardless of whether Russia wins or loses in Ukraine, one thing is certain: the Russian military will ... to devise its blitzkrieg strategy in World War II, while America's failure in Vietnam ...

The state funeral of Queen Victoria of Great Britain was held on 1901. A little over a decade later, the plush Grand Central ...

Politicians from across parties voiced alarm in the Commons after the US president's bombshell call with Vladimir Putin ...

On this day in 1944 Soviet forces broke the almost 900-day siege of Leningrad. Exactly one year later the Red Army entered the gates of the Auschwitz death camp. The difficult question about ...

Groups from across Europe meet for a ‘Day of Honour’ to mark a failed attempt by Axis troops to break the 1945 Soviet siege ...