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Nearly two years into an invasion with increasingly vague goals, recent photos show symbols from Russia’s Soviet past becoming increasingly mainstreamed as a rallying point for Russian troops.

Ukrainian veterans raised the nation’s flag, commemorating Ukraine’s Independence Day and the continued fight for its freedom in the midst of the Russian invasion. This day marks when Ukraine ...

Confidently rolling toward Ukrainian lines in western Russia’s Kursk Oblast in up-armored vehicles brazenly flying the flag of the defunct Soviet Union, an assault group from the Russian 155th ...

In the aftermath of the Soviet Union's collapse, Ukraine found itself in possession of the third-largest nuclear arsenal in the world. This Kings and Generals documentary explains why Ukraine gave up ...

Pope Francis, isolationist? Could the man who sits on the throne of Saint Peter emerge as the latest advocate of a Ukrainian surrender to Russia? It’s starting to look that way, following an interview ...

In Nova Kakhovka, a city in southern Ukraine occupied by Russian troops five months ago on the first day of its invasion, the signs of creeping annexation by Russia are mounting and some residents ...

I first visited the Soviet Union when I was 22. I was 28 years old when the Berlin Wall fell. I turned 31 a few weeks before the Soviet flag was lowered for the last time.

Wednesday’s event took place on the 31-year anniversary of Ukraine declaring independence from the then-crumbling Soviet Union on Aug. 24, 1991. The event was also held six months to the day after ...

People in Estonia, a neighbor of Russia, have celebrated their hard-won freedom at a song festival and also showed solidarity ...

However, due to the Soviet Union’s repression of the Crimean Tatars and the introduction of the communist regime, the flag was not used. Only in 1991, after the Crimean Tatar people restored their ...

The report of the raid coincides with Ukraine's Independence Day - which marks the anniversary of the country declaring its independence from the Soviet Union.