For Yuriy Savchuk, the director of Ukraine's War Museum, Russia's invasion has stark parallels with the fight for survival his country waged during World War II. As both Russia and Ukraine gear up ...

The tanks are T-55s, a model first commissioned by the Soviet Union’s Red Army in 1948, shortly after the end of World War II. They’re so old, you can find them in museums.

This isn’t the Soviet countryside in the autumn of 1941, but the Victory Museum in Moscow on a grey winter’s day a year or so after Vladimir Putin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. However ...

Russia can mobilize for war on a scale comparable to the Soviet Union during World War II if necessary, ... No one can have any doubts," Peskov said during a lecture at the Victory Museum in Moscow.

Reuters reported that the book covers Russian war heroes who fought in Ukraine, as well as how Moscow's current military has adapted techniques used by the Soviet Union's army in World War II.

As Moscow bureau chief, Guy runs coverage of Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States. Before Moscow, Guy ran Brexit coverage as London bureau chief (2012-2022).

Ukraine has accused Russia of looting more than 30 museums, calling it the biggest art theft since the Nazis in World War II. In Kherson, Russian soldiers cut paintings from frames, dragged out ...

Actors dressed as Soviet soldiers walk next to a Soviet Po-2 night bomber at the WWII open-air museum at the Red Square in Moscow, Russia, Saturday, June 21, 2025, ahead ...

A new school textbook in Russia is teaching children that Moscow was "forced" to invade Ukraine as it likens the conflict to the Soviet Union's battle against Nazi Germany in World War II.

Russian prosecutors have asked a court to recognise crimes committed by Nazi Germany in the Moscow region during World War Two as genocide and believe that around 6.4 trillion roubles ($82.3 ...

The tanks are T-55s, a model first commissioned by the Soviet Union’s Red Army in 1948, shortly after the end of World War II. They’re so old, you can find them in museums.