The documents published can be accessed on the ministry’s website in its new multimedia section MOSCOW, July 3. /TASS/. Russia’s Defense Ministry has published unique documents on Operation Bagration ...

In the summer of 1944, while Allied forces battled across Normandy in Western Europe, an even larger and more devastating offensive was unfolding on the Eastern Front. Operation Bagration, launched by ...

With 2024 marking the 80th Anniversary of the penultimate year of the Second World War, there were, of course, several new books on the military operations of 1944. The most important action of that ...

Here’s What You Need To Remember: The Nazis failed spectacularly in the summer of 1944 for three main reasons – elaborated below. The Soviet army’s Operation Bagration offensive in June 1944... Here’s ...

A situation report of the Soviet Information Bureau for 24 June 1944 said: "After heavy artillery shelling and bombing of the enemy positions from the air, our troops launched an offensive in the ...

This is a joint Belarusian-Russian project involving leading scientists of the two countries, political and public figures as ...

Soviet forces advancing on Kiev are briefly stalled at the Dnieper River until a tank unit crosses a shallow ford and promptly drives the Nazis from the city. The Soviet charge through Ukraine becomes ...

Archive film, computer-generated imagery and innovative reconstructions tell the Red Army's story of their bloody defeat to Nazi Germany in Kiev in 1941. From the very first days of the war the USSR ...