Nearly a quarter of a million Soviet women served in frontline combat roles during World War II as snipers, pilots, machine ...

When Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, attitudes towards Ukrainian women in the military quickly changed. Women wanted to serve and sometimes had to find backdoors they could slip through. While the ...

More than 2,400 women served as snipers in the Soviet Army during World War II, and together they accounted for over 11,000 ...

The Venice Film Festival is about to reveal its 2026 lineup, promising a plethora of buzzy titles from international ...

April 21, 2026: The Russian Ministry of Sports decided that shooting with sniper rifles was now an official sporting discipline. Soldiers operating as snipers is now considered a Russian sporting ...

Experience history through a powerful lens. Discover 17 vintage photos of brave women who stepped onto the battlefields of ...

Russia’s decision to launch a full-scale invasion of Ukraine has now cost the country some 450,000 lives, according to a new study that estimates the war’s total casualty numbers to have surpassed 2 ...

The Cold War was rife with epic tales of spies and espionage against the backdrop of a nuclear arms race. Mythologised in books, movies and on television, they have become the stuff of legend. But one ...

Donald Trump is using the G7 summit in France to tout his deal with Iran, and to suggest he'll now turn more attention to the ongoing war between Ukraine and Russia. What's the latest in that conflict ...

At least 21 people were killed in Kyiv, the local authorities said. Ukraine’s president had warned that Moscow was preparing a “massive strike” as his country’s forces have hit deeper into Russian ...

German foreign ministry summons China’s ambassador and says anything that enables Russia to continue its war of aggression represents a ‘threat’ to Germany’s security. What we know on day 1,592 The ...

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine kept up its heavy drone assault on Russia, setting fire to a major oil refinery in the south, as President Vladimir Putin acknowledged for the first time on Sunday that ...