A former U.S. soldier who was captured by Russian-backed forces in Ukraine two months ago told his mother in a phone call that he and two other American prisoners are still in the Donetsk region of Ukraine, the family said in a press release. Alex Drueke spoke to his mother, Lois ...
Russian forces have destroyed an armored fighting vehicle (AFV) supplied to Ukraine by its Western backers with a single, precise drone strike, the Defense Ministry in Moscow has said, releasing a video of the attack. In a statement on Sunday, the ministry said that the American-made Stryker...
Kyiv - An advisor to Ukraine's president said Thursday that fighting raged at the decimated Azovstal steel works in the southern port city of Mariupol, where about 200 civilians and hundreds of Ukrainian troops were holed up. Russia denied claims that its forces had entered the compound and i...
Since it’s late in the year, we don’t necessarily have a topic right off the bat, so we’ll be talking writing, history, war… the usual. Come and join us. For those who aren’t familiar, Doc Spears is a former Special Forces soldier, surgeon, current instructor with Forge ...
Eli Lilly (July 8, 1838 – June 6, 1898) was an American soldier, pharmacist, chemist, and businessman who founded the Eli Lilly and Company pharmaceutical corporation. Lilly enlisted in the Union Army during the American Civil War and recruited a company of men to se...
soldier to die in combat fighting ISIS. Wheeler was killed in a firefight working to save the lives of Kurdish fighters. “My personal feeling is, I always thought there was a war; if people are dying, there has got to be a war if they are getting killed by enemy fire. People are ...
Enter your email below to receive exclusive content from Soldier of Fortune right in your inbox. It also worked the other way around with army systems supporting the Marines. The 120 mm mortars that we had during the fight were major killers on the battlefield. The Marines have a lot of ...
Analysts have pointed out that Moscow may be using jailed Americans as bargaining chips in soaring U.S.-Russian tensions over the Kremlin’s military operation in Ukraine. Another American jailed in Russia is Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, who was arrested March 29 and accused of...
A Ukraine National Guard soldier gripping an American-made RPG-7 clone. Image Credit: weaponews.com When is an RPG-7 Not an RPG-7? Answer: When it’s a PSRL-1, made in the USA. It is aPrecisionShoulder-firedRocketLauncher, and we ripped the idea for this right out of the back ca...
That’s why I will be present in Kyiv, Ukraine, 15 August 2024 between dawn and noon. Painters, performers, poets, philosophers, sculptors, dancers, bystanders and witnesses, those whose can only sit by and watch – it is time to move, dance, to be there with each other for our friend...