The first day of the Somme Offensive was the blackest day in the British Army's history. The shocking numbers are revealed as ...

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Prince Andrew's decision to wear a Grenadier Guards jumper has reignited fury amongst veterans who fought to strip him of his ...

Moscow says it's been gaining momentum in Ukraine, but the researchers found that even its Pokrovsk push was one of the slowest in the last 100 years.

As trench warfare paralysed the Western Front, an experimental vehicle pointed the way toward a different type of warfare – and a century of armoured combat ...

PUTIN’S forces are advancing in Ukraine slower than any army in more than 100 years – including allied efforts at the notoriously drudging Battle of The Somme. Mad Vlad’s desperate ...

It means Russia is advancing slower than some First World War battles, including the Battle of the Somme, where French forces advanced around 80 metres per day. In total, Russian forces are estimated ...

As losses mount, the pace of Russia's advance has at times been slower than the Battle of the Somme during World War I, a ...

About 1.2 million Russian troops have been killed, wounded or are missing since its invasion of Ukraine almost four years ago, a rate of casualties for a major military power not seen since World War ...

Russia sustained 1.2 million casualties almost four years into its all-out war in Ukraine, suffering more losses than any major power in any war since World War II, according to a CSIS report.View on ...

The number of Russian and Ukrainian soldiers killed, wounded or missing during the war will reach 2 million by the spring, ...