The seizure of Leningrad during the 1941-1945 Great Patriotic War was one of the German command’s most important strategic and political tasks. The siege of Leningrad started on September 8 ...

Today is a special day. Eighty-one years ago, on January 27, 1944, the most terrible blockade in the history of mankind – the siege of Leningrad (modern-day St Petersburg) – ended. Its ...

Begging for an end to what is tantamount to a starvation tactic, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy referred in a speech to the historic tragedy of the Siege of Leningrad. During World War II ...

The Russian president took part in a commemorative ceremony and met living veterans of the Second World War Russian President ...