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1 day ago · The last Minister of Defence of the Soviet Union, Marshal Yevgeny Shaposhnikov, was appointed supreme commander of the CIS Armed Forces in December 1991. Among the numerous treaties signed by the former republics, in order to direct the transition period, was a temporary agreement on general purpose forces, signed in Minsk on 14 February 1992.
4 days ago · Many former Wagner personnel in Africa are now in a new mercenary group, the Africa Corps – a name that echoes the German Afrika Korps which fought in north Africa under Field Marshal Erwin...
2 days ago · Putin says he will take Trump 'seriously' on ending war | Zelenskyy challenges former US president to reveal peace plan. Kremlin dismisses idea that Turkey could help end war. Indian PM to visit ...
2 days ago · The failure of Operation Barbarossa reversed the fortunes of Nazi Germany. [35] Operationally, German forces achieved significant victories and occupied some of the most important economic areas of the Soviet Union (mainly in Ukraine) and inflicted, as well as sustained, heavy casualties.
2 days ago · For more than half a decade, Yevgeny Prigozhin’s Wagner Group has been the leading actor in the Kremlin’s efforts to grow its influence, gaining friends – along with security-services contracts and lucrative mining licenses – in half a dozen African countries.
2 days ago · Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Zelenskyy [a] [b] [c] (born 25 January 1978) is a Ukrainian politician and former entertainer who has served as the sixth president of Ukraine since 2019, including during the ongoing full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine from 2022.
3 days ago · Yevgeny Prigozhin, head of the infamous Wagner Group of mercenaries, launched a mutiny, turning his troops away from the Ukrainian frontline and heading towards Moscow.
