Alexievich’s book recounts the experiences of hundreds of Soviet women who volunteered in World War II after a staggering number of male combatants were killed. The Japanese translation of the ...

During World War II, Soviet women served as snipers, pilots, and front-line soldiers. In other parts of the world, female soldiers have gradually gained more opportunities within the armed forces.

a Russian soldier broke into a school in Malaya Rohan, a town near the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, which had been relentlessly bombed by Vladimir Putin's forces for weeks. Dozens of women and boys ...

Women react as they attend a rally of relatives of Ukrainian Marines who defended the Azovstal and are prisoners of war, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine January 6, 2025.

Russian women are being recruited by the Kremlin-linked private military company Redut via social media as snipers and UAV operators in Russia's ongoing invasion of Ukraine. Follow our coverage of the ...