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 ...

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 regime.

No, this is not a reference to the Ukraine War—though it very well could have been. In fact, this is an allusion to the Soviet-Afghan War from 1979 to 1989 that defined the geopolitics in the 1980s.

The rising number of Russian general officers killed in combat highlights Ukraine’s effectiveness in going after high-value ...

The Russian war in Ukraine, ... He compared the situation to the 1990s in Russia, when the return of veterans from the Soviet-Afghanistan war fueled violence across the former USSR.

It also roughly chimes with attempts by Russian independent media, such as Meduza and Mediazona, to count the bodies. By this ...

Ending the Russia-Ukraine war demands a shift in strategy from the Trump administration—one that compels Russian President ...

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Efrem Lukatsky has worked for The Associated Press, based in Kyiv, for more than 30 years. He covered ...

No, this is not a reference to the Ukraine War—though it very well could have been. In fact, this is an allusion to the Soviet-Afghan War from 1979 to 1989 that defined the geopolitics in the 1980s.