This week, the conflict reached its 1,418th day, the same number of days the Soviet Union's Red Army fought against Nazi Germany during the "Great Patriotic War"

Three years. 10 months. 18 days.As of January 12, that’s the amount of time that’s elapsed since Russia launched its all-out assault on Ukraine: Europe’s largest, bloodiest conflict war since World War II.

Spiridon Ivanovich Putin, born in 1879, was a notable Russian chef whose life spanned the tumultuous periods of the pre-revolutionary era and Soviet power.

Ukrainian military pointed out the problems of enemy aircraft. The Russians have armed the new Su-35S fighter jet with a very old Soviet R-27 missile to perform missions near the front. The relevant footage released by Russian propaganda was pointed out by "Militar".

For most of us in the West, until the fall of the Berlin Wall “Russia” was synonymous with the Soviet Union. Among the 15 constituent states of the Communist empire, Russia was always the pre-eminent one.

EADaily, January 26th, 2026. Soviet cruise missiles X-22 "Storm" to this day have no equal in the world. The American magazine Military Watch Magazine writes about this.

The Mi-8 is far more cost-competitive than Western counterparts, and focuses on redundancy and ease of use rather than exacting performance standards.

Decades-old Russian airliners are being pulled out of storage to equip the country’s airlines amid Western sanctions and a faltering native aviation industry.