Russia downed 50 drones over the Leningrad region north-west of Moscow overnight and continues to repel the suspected Ukrainian attacks, Governor Alexander Drozdenko said on June 3, as a major annual ...

Crucial energy export facilities, major oil refinery located in the Leningrad region Putin's flagship annual economic forum kicks off on Wednesday Putin to deliver key note speech on Friday Drones ...

Starvation, freezing temperatures, and relentless German attacks pushed Leningrad to the edge of destruction during one of WWII’s longest sieges. Millions of civilians and soldiers endured ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Russia's Leningrad Oblast 'now a front-line region,' local governor says following recent Ukrainian attacks In a televised ...

The replica album was donated by Burns enthusiast Helen Morrison It was a wartime gesture of support that travelled from Lanarkshire to an under-siege Leningrad, and then back again. Now two ...

Operation Barbarossa didn’t just target territory—it set the stage for the 800-day Siege of Leningrad, where starvation and mass death rewired a city’s sense of survival. Through the Putin family’s ...

The untold true story of Russian botanists at the world’s first seed bank in besieged Leningrad during WW2 who faced a terrible choice. A picture taken on December 20, 2016 shows employees of Russia's ...

In brief: Overnight on Sept. 13-14, Ukrainian Special Ops and Drone Forces executed an attack on one of Russia’s largest oil refineries, starting fires in the Leningrad Oblast. Ukrainian Special ...

Lyudmila Vasilyeva was greeted by dozens of supporters outside court on Friday Russian activist Lyudmila Vasilyeva, an 84-year-old survivor of the siege of Leningrad in World War Two, has been fined ...

Saint Petersburg (AFP) – Lyudmila Vasilyeva, 84, survived the Siege of Leningrad in World War II as a child. Now, the Russian pensioner has been prosecuted for calling for peace in Ukraine and says ...

Russia's nuclear regulator Rostakhnadzor has issued a licence for Leningrad nuclear power plant's third unit to operate for a further five years, to 2030. (Image: sikaraha/stock.adobe.com) The ...

Today is a special day. Eighty-one years ago, on January 27, 1944, the most terrible blockade in the history of mankind – the siege of Leningrad (modern-day St Petersburg) – ended. Its importance can ...