This contradicts a statement put out by the Russian Defence Ministry that the ship sank during a storm. A news report from Russian agency TASS on 14 April said: "The Moskva missile cruiser sank while being towed amid storm because of hull damage sustained during the ...
He noted the timing of Moskva’s sinking coincides with the upcoming 40th anniversary of the Falklands War. In that conflict, there were two vessels, one British and one Argentine, that were destroyed in eerily similar incidents to what happened to the Russian warship. In both cases, Foggo sa...
When the Russian forces declared the fire with Ukraine, it forcefully displaced millions of Ukrainians, killed hundreds-of-thousands civilians, and left Ukraine under massive destruction while occupying all its key cities and frontiers.
The devastation was enormous, with hundreds of German troops killed or severely injured and 25,000 Kiev residents left homeless. Even though the attack had been carried out by Russian soldiers, the Nazi German high command blamed the city's Jewish community and ordered it to assemble for "...
What was the Kronstadt Rebellion? The Kronstadt rebellion took place in the first weeks of March 1921. Proclaimed by Trotsky himself as being the "pride and glory of the Russian Revolution," its sailors were renowned for their revolutionary ideas and activities and had turned the naval base and...