fought against the army of another empire – the Turkish Ottoman Empire. Sultan Mehmed V (1844-1918) was ruler of the Ottoman Empire for almost the entire duration of WW1. From the 14th Century ...

His hospitalization for more than a month at the most prestigious facility in Russia's ... to those ranks deploying to frontline positions, something that in the U.S. Army would be done by lower ...

VOA Russian spoke to independent analyst Jakub Janovsky who documents Russian military equipment losses in the war with Ukraine. He noted that Russia has lost 136 military planes and 151 ...

The Russian military is running out of experienced soldiers, forcing Moscow to rely on contract troops to sustain its “special military operation” in Ukraine. In its latest intelligence ...

Ukraine inflicted a major blow on the Russian army's attempt to seize a strategically vital city in the Donetsk region, after recapturing a key village on the eastern front. Putin's army has ...

Other supposedly realistic commentators agree, arguing that Russia’s advantages are insurmountable. As military historians, we think this a misreading not only of what is happening on the ground ...

Yuri Podolyaka, one of the most influential pro-Russian military bloggers, said Russia had pushed back Ukrainian forces to the border in some areas, though intense battles were underway and that ...

It has been three years since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, and the conflict has had a profound effect on the Russian weapons industry, causing its arms exports to plummet. The ...

At least two Russian naval ships are believed to have moved North Korean soldiers to a Russian military port in Dunai, in the far east, in October and November, according to researchers at the ...

U.S. officials have also indicated to Ukraine that its hopes of joining NATO are unlikely to be realized and that it probably won’t get back the land that Russia’s army occupies, which amounts ...

Kyiv has long used this overhead imagery to track Russian troop movements, assess terrain and help in the planning of military operations. After weeks of more amicable relations with Russia ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said his troops are still holding off Russian and North Korean forces in Russia’s Kursk region after a U.S. military official said Russian forces could ...