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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Russian authorities said 419 drones were shot down across Russia, including in the capital, and in Crimea. By Paul Sonne Ivan Nechepurenko and John Yoon See more of our coverage in your search ...

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 ...

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 ...