Vets of the Soviet-Afghan war can point to another victory as well. In 2010, the Kremlin officially named Feb. 15 — the official date of the Soviet pullout from Afghanistan — a state holiday: ...

Grisly milestone’ is credible, experts say . Recent research from Washington-based think-tank, Center for Strategic and ...

The Soviet-Afghan War raged for nine years and is considered a major part of the overarching Cold War between the US and its allies, and the Soviet Union. A major faction was the Afghan Mujahideen ...

Vets of the Soviet-Afghan war can point to another victory as well. In 2010, the Kremlin officially named Feb. 15 — the official date of the Soviet pullout from Afghanistan — a state holiday: ...

By comparison, up to 25,000 Soviet soldiers are believed to have been killed during the entire Soviet-Afghan war. While Russia is known to downplay its losses, a high-profile military blogger ...

During the Soviet war in Afghanistan in 1979-1989, ... Soviet-Afghan War Veteran Uses U.S. Stinger Missiles Against Russian Jets In Ukraine April 18, 2023 18:20 CET ...

Russia's four-month offensive on the destroyed Donetsk town of Avdiivka, in eastern Ukraine, cost more lives than the 10 years of war Moscow waged under the Soviet Union in Afghanistan, new ...

In Salar Pashtoonyar’s documentary short about life after the Soviet-Afghan war, an accusation levelled against a teen-age girl changes the course of her life.

Close to 50,000 Russian soldiers have died in the invasion of Ukraine, according to the first independent statistical analysis of the country’s war dead – a joint effort by independent Russian ...