The 2000 sinking of the Russian submarine Kursk in the Barents Sea remains one of the worst naval disasters in Russian ...

The Ukrainian incursion into that oblast, brilliant in its design and execution, threatens to turn into a “winning a battle and losing the war” classic. Kursk is a powerful symbol. In 1943 ...

In recent weeks, tanks have helped Ukrainian forces sweep through Russia’s Kursk region, an area where a pivotal World War II battle took place in 1943. Ukraine’s use of tanks shows how a ...

The Battle of Kursk was a major World War II Eastern Front battle between the forces of Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union near Kursk in southwestern Russia during the summer of 1943, resulting in a ...

Thanks to the commissar system, then, the Red Army possessed the finest battle-tried reserve of ... the German offensive along the Kursk salient and in launching its own summer offensive. From early ...

The battle of Kursk, in July and August 1943, was the largest tank battle in history, involving 6,000 tanks, close to two million soldiers, and 4,000 aircraft. It ended with a German defeat and was a ...

German journalist Julian Repke stated on social networks that the loss of the Leopard 2 main battle tank in the Kursk region ...