The number of women in the armed forces hasn’t gone up much over the past decade. There were 50,000 in 2012. Perhaps only 40,000 now despite increased opportunities for them in the ranks. Polling indicates about two-thirds of Russians don’t want their daughters to serve. The move to ...
Soldiers from the UPA's ranks were declared "veterans" alongside Soviet Red Army soldiers. The nationalist army's activity has long been clouded by allegations that it carried out massacres of tens of thousands of ethnic Poles in western Ukraine's Volyn region - part of an area that was ...
In Vladimir Oblast, 1,790 men are being drafted. The region ranks 31st in population. PortalVladtv.rureports 501 are going to the Ground Troops, 233 to the VKS, and 260 to “units of central subordination.” No word on the remaining 796 men. Karachayevo-Cherkesiya will send off 500 n...
The Russian military had about 400,000 contract soldiers, including about 150,000 in the ground forces, before it rolled into Ukraine. Shoigu said the expanded Russian military will include 695,000 volunteer contract soldiers, 521,000 of whom should be in the ranks by the end of 2023. All ...
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The Black Army, which counted numerous Jews and Ukrainian peasants in its ranks, played a key part in halting General Denikin's White Army offensive towards Moscow during 1919, later ejecting Cossack forces from the Crimea. The Western Allies also expressed their dismay at the Bolsheviks, (1)...
Peter continued and intensified his predecessors' requirement of state service from all nobles, in the Table of Ranks. As part of Peter's reorganisation, he also enacted a church reform. The Russian Orthodox Church was partially incorporated into the country's administrative structure, in effect ...
The driver and I found common ground and continue to work together. The third person is a doctor,” says Victoria. Paramedic Victoria Honcharuk The paramedic also spoke about the most difficult moments she has had to face during her year at the front. According to her, the most difficult ...
The ground shook like our breasts, Horses and men mingled in the battle, And the volleys of a thousand guns Merged into a long-drawn-out howl. So, even oblique associations put the speaker on the warpath. Konstantin Ernst(after all, the song was chosen on Channel One) was forced to exp...