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Operation Barbarossa [g] was the invasion of the Soviet Union by Nazi Germany and several of its European Axis allies starting on 22 June 1941, during World War II. More than 3.8 million Axis troops invaded the western Soviet Union along a 2,900-kilometer (1,800 mi) front, with the main goal of capturing territory up to a line between ...
Russia deliberately attacked fleeing civilians in South Ossetia and the Gori district of Georgia. Russian warplanes bombed civilian population centres in Georgia proper and villages of ethnic Georgians in South Ossetia. Armed militias engaged in plundering, burning and kidnappings. Attacks by militias compelled Georgian civilians to run away.
Eastern Front; Part of the European theatre of World War II: Clockwise from top left: Soviet T-34 tanks storming Poznań, 1945; German Tiger I tanks during the Battle of Kursk, 1943; German Stuka dive bombers on the Eastern Front, 1943; German Einsatzgruppen death squad murdering Jews in Ukraine, 1942; Wilhelm Keitel signing the German Instrument of Surrender, 1945; Soviet troops at the Battle ...
The entry of the Soviet Union in the war against Japan along with the atomic bombings by the United States led to Japan's surrender, marking the end of World War II. The Soviet Union suffered the greatest number of casualties in the war, losing more than 20 million citizens, about a third of all World War II casualties.
On 15 August 2008, Russian forces advancing towards Tbilisi blew up the railway bridge near Kaspi, about 50 km (31 mi) from the Georgian capital. The cement factory and civilian area in Kaspi were also damaged by Russian bombing. [9] The destruction of the railway bridge sabotaged the east-west link of Georgia and Armenia's main trade route. [10]
Summary executions of at least 38 confirmed civilians by Russian federal soldiers in Grozny, Chechnya. Bombing of Katyr-Yurt: February 4, 2000 Katyr-Yurt, Chechnya: 170–363 Indiscriminate bombing by the Russian Air Force of the village of Katyr-Yurt and a refugee convoy under white flags. Novye Aldi massacre: February 5, 2000 Groznensky ...
When Soviet troops detected a coming attack, they launched their own counterattacks at dawn before German air support could arrive. Soviet troops blunted the German attacks themselves through ambushes that separated tanks from their supporting infantry, as well as the employment of booby traps and mines. These tactical innovations became ...
Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov [a] (Russian: Георгий Константинович Жуков, pronounced [ɡʲɪˈorɡʲɪj kənstɐnʲˈtʲinəvʲɪdʑ‿ˈʐukəf] ⓘ; 1 December 1896 – 18 June 1974) was a Soviet general who served as a top commander during World War II and achieved the rank of Marshal of the Soviet Union.