The Soviet–Afghan War took place in the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan from December 1979 to February 1989. Marking the beginning of the protracted Afghan conflict, it saw the …

Jul 24, 2023 · However, the Soviet invasion led to a proliferation of Islamist uprisings, suppressed with unprecedented violence out of sight. Of the 15 million Afghans, 3 million fled to Pakistan …

Mar 12, 2024 · The Soviet-Afghan War has been the formative conflict for a generation of military officers in the post-Soviet space. This is true for Russian generals such as Sergey Surovikin, …

The remembrance of Soviet soldiers killed in Afghanistan and elsewhere internationally are commemorated annually on 15 February in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus. Veterans of the war …

Nov 9, 2022 · Thirty years ago, the Soviet Union's failed war in Afghanistan helped bring down its empire. Now Russia's faltering war effort in Ukraine is raising doubts about the future of Putin's...

Feb 25, 2024 · More Russian soldiers are likely to have died seizing the Ukrainian town of Avdiivka than in the 10-year Soviet-Afghan war, the think tank the Institute for the Study of …

Nov 14, 2023 · During the Soviet Union’s invasion of Afghanistan (1979 – 1989), a strength of the U.S. response was the consistency of its primary objective across three presidential …

Mar 19, 2019 · Thirty years on from the end of the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan, war veterans are having to deal with contemporary conflicts in their search for friendship and …

Jul 12, 2023 · 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...

Atrocity crimes in the Soviet–Afghan War were systematically perpetrated on a large scale by the Soviet Union and its allies from 1979 to 1989, with several scholars and academics concluding …