Explainer: Some Ukrainians speak Russian language — it doesn’t make them Russian
It wasn’t until 2022, when she and her family lived through the Russian occupation of Kherson Oblast, that they made the ...
A Ukrainian museum in Hamtramck becomes a wartime focus for help, pride and history
Polish restaurants in Hamtramck are staffed with Ukrainian servers who moved to Detroit to be safer. One refugee, a former ...
The National Interest2d
Nazi Submariners Were Right to Fear the World War II Hedgehog Mortar
When one thinks of antisubmarine warfare (ASW) weapons of World War II, chances are the depth charge is the first weapon that comes to mind. This is understandable, since it was certainly the ...
Stars and Stripes2d
At 102, American WWII veteran returns to the Polish forest where he was once a POW
Lester Schrenk, a former U.S. Army Air Forces B-17 gunner who was shot down over Denmark in February 1944, spent about half ...
Milwaukee Independent2d
Why Putin covets Ukraine’s territory and turned Crimea from a playground into a battleground
Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev transferred the peninsula from Russia to Ukraine in 1954, when both were part of the USSR, to ...
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10 Best Submarine War Movies, Ranked
Submarines were a deadly and dangerous threat that lurked below the surface and there have been some fantastic films looking ...
TASS Russian News Agency6d
FSB makes public archived evidence exposing Nazi atrocities in Dnepropetrovsk Region
According to the FSB’s public relations center, among the documents there is a special message from the chief of the counterintelligence directorate Smersh of the 3rd Ukrainian Front, addressed to the ...
Stars and Stripes7d
80 years ago, Patton’s Army rolled into what is now the largest US military community overseas
George Patton’s Third Army faced little resistance as it advanced through southwest Germany into a small industrial city ...
Crimea has been a battleground and a playground. Why it's coveted by both Russia and Ukraine
Russia’s seizure of the Crimean Peninsula from Ukraine exactly 11 years ago on March 18, 2014, was quick and bloodless, but ...
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A historical timeline of post-independence Ukraine
take to the streets in large numbers and force a revote in December, which Yushchenko wins. The second so-called color revolution in a post-Soviet state — a year after Georgia’s Rose ...
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When Secret Soviet MiG Aces Fought US Sabres
In the skies over Korea at the height of the cold war, Soviet fighter aces secretly fought against the UN forces ... with a special paint job, Casey Jones was none other than Soviet WW2 pilot ...