For German soldiers, Vasily Chuikov became inseparable from the nightmare of Stalingrad. His insistence on fighting at ...

When the German Sixth Army officially surrendered at Stalingrad on February 2, 1943, the battle was declared over, but for ...

Vasily Zaytsev was a Soviet sniper who fought during the Battle of Stalingrad, one of the decisive engagements on the Eastern ...

This report of a trip through battle-torn Stalingrad was written by Author Konstantin Simonov, published in Moscow’s Krasnaya Zvezda and cabled to TIME by its Moscow Correspondent Walter Graebner: ...

The Germans were in Stalingrad. The Germans had reached the Volga. > Said a German correspondent broadcasting from the Stalingrad front: “The horizon seems to heave up. Gigantic mushrooms of greenish ...

A new documentary, Stalingrad: The Last Letters, produced by Dan Snow’s streaming service, History Hit, unveils newly translated and never-before-seen or heard accounts that shed light on the ...

With his latest film “Oppenheimer,” Christopher Nolan has returned to war; World War II, specifically. Although the J. Robert Oppenheimer biopic doesn’t feature any scenes of soldiers heading into ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from SGS Battle For: Stalingrad The terrible "rat fights" (Ratenkrieg) fought out in the urban area of Stalingrad end of 1942, on a battalion scale and two days ...

Russia’s withdrawal from a U.N.-backed grain deal and its attacks on Odesa have brought the Black Sea port city’s importance back into focus. By Marc Santora reporting from Odesa, Ukraine The last two ...

A Russian state TV host has compared Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine with the World War II battle of Stalingrad, falsely claiming that all of Europe was fighting with Adolf Hitler against Soviet ...

In 2016, two years after Russia’s invasion of Crimea and the Donbas, I was invited to the Kyiv Suvorov Military School to present the Ukrainian edition of my novel set in Afghanistan. The auditorium ...

I'm Steve Gutterman, the editor of RFE/RL's Russia/Ukraine/Belarus Desk. Welcome to The Week In Russia, in which I dissect the key developments in Russian politics and society over the previous week ...