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The Freedom of Russia Legion [i] (FRL, Russian: Легион «Свобода России», romanized: Legion "Svoboda Rossii"; Ukrainian: Легіон «Свобода Росії», romanized: Lehion "Svoboda Rosii"; abbr. ЛСР, romanized: LSR), also called the Free Russia Legion, [11] [12] is a Ukrainian-based paramilitary unit of Russian citizens, which opposes the Russian regime of ...
The 102 servicemen of Russia’s 488th Guards Motorised Rifle Regiment and its “Akhmat” unit are the largest group of soldiers to be captured in one go since Russia launched its invasion in 2022.
The front line on May 13, with the Donets outlined in purple. The battle of the Siverskyi Donets was a series of military engagements which took place in May 2022, most notably from 5 to 13 May, on the Lyman – Sievierodonetsk front of the battle of Donbas. It was part of the wider eastern Ukraine offensive during the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Women played a part in most of the armed forces of the Second World War. In most countries though, women tended to serve mostly in administrative, medical and in auxiliary roles. But in the Soviet Union women fought also in front line roles. Over 800,000 women served in the Soviet armed forces in World War II, mostly as medics and nurses, which ...
The Russian Liberation Army (German: Russische Befreiungsarmee; Russian: Русская освободительная армия, Russkaya osvoboditel'naya armiya, abbreviated as РОА, ROA, also known as the Vlasov army (Власовская армия, Vlasovskaya armiya) was a collaborationist formation, primarily composed of Russians, that fought under German command during World War II.
The Russian Ground Forces, [ a] also known as the Russian Army in English, are the land forces of the Russian Armed Forces . The primary responsibilities of the Russian Ground Forces are the protection of the state borders, combat on land, and the defeat of enemy troops. The President of Russia is the Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Armed ...
The foundations of the Rusich group were laid in 2009, when a military training base was founded [ 8] by Alexey Milchakov, a neo-Nazi from Saint Petersburg. [ 4][ 9] He had the nickname "Fritz" before being sent to the Donbas (there he changed to the call sign "Serb"). [ 5][ 10][ 11] He took part in the Partizan paramilitary training program at ...
Soviet imagery has been extensively used by Russian forces during the Russo-Ukrainian War, especially following the Russian invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022. Prior to its declaration of independence in 1991, Ukraine was a constituent republic of the Soviet Union as the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic .