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4 days ago · Over the course of the operation, over 3.8 million personnel of the Axis powers—the largest invasion force in the history of warfare —invaded the western Soviet Union, along a 2,900-kilometer (1,800 mi) front, with 600,000 motor vehicles and over 600,000 horses for non-combat operations.
1 day ago · Nazi Germany invading the Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa, June 22, 1941. See all videos for this article. For the campaign against the Soviet Union, the Germans allotted almost 150 divisions containing a total of about 3,000,000 men.
5 days ago · World War I - Eastern Front, 1914, Trench Warfare: On the Eastern Front the Russian army launched an offensive action in East Prussia known as the Battle of Tannenberg that ended in a German victory over the Russians.
5 days ago · World War I - Eastern Front, 1916, Trench Warfare: Brusilov's offensive was Russia's last effective military effort of the war, and seriously depleted Russian resources. Romania entered the war on the side of the Allies and fell before the end of the year.
4 days ago · Drone combat. ago. Russian forces are advancing slowly but surely in Toretsk, pummelling the devastated eastern Ukrainian town night and day with rockets, artillery fire and air attacks. Time...
2 days ago · The Battle of Borodino, fought on 7 September 1812, was the largest battle of the French invasion of Russia, involving more than 250,000 troops and resulting in at least 70,000 casualties.
2 days ago · The Battle of Friedland which led to peace with Russia in 1807 involved about 150,000 men. After these defeats, the continental powers developed various forms of mass conscription to allow them to face France on even terms, and the size of field armies increased rapidly.
