The Soviet government highly valued the military successes achieved during the Budapest operation. By decree on June 9, 1945, the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet (national legislature) of the USSR ...
The first high-profile exchange took place on February 10, 1962, when Soviet intelligence officer William Fischer (better known as Rudolf Abel), arrested in New York on June 21, 1957, was exchanged ...
The Times interviewed Russian soldiers who said they face a brutal fight to dislodge determined Ukrainian forces from a ...