After weeks of deliberation, Russia started a counteroffensive in Kursk. The Ukrainian incursion into that oblast, brilliant ...

When Ukrainian forces crossed the border into the Kursk region on August 6, they had an advantage that the Germans didn’t have in 1943 – surprise. The offensive was planned in complete secrecy ...

The United States and its allies should urgently lift all existing restrictions on the use of Western military equipment ...

Winning the biggest tank battle in history - against Nazi Germany at Kursk in 1943 - remains a great source of pride for Russians. So it is not surprising that Russian officials have lashed out at ...

Moscow’s troops have retaken a few villages in a border area that Kyiv’s forces invaded last month and are also advancing ...

The Hindu profiles on Russians turned to Pokrovsk, the eastern Ukrainian city with a pre-war population of about 70,000 ...

Now, as Russia prepares to celebrate the 81st anniversary of that 1943 battle on Friday, Kursk is again in the news — but for a very different reason. On Aug. 6, Ukrainian forces made a ...

1943, when millions of troops and thousands of tanks and armored guns did battle around Kursk, the historians say. With victory in Kursk, “the Soviets seized the initiative in the east and never ...

What was the Battle of Kursk? In the spring of 1943, Hitler’s army in the east was badly wounded by the Battle of Stalingrad, where the Germans lost almost a million men in their attempt to take ...