Bryansk region neighbours Kursk province, where Ukraine launched a surprise push on 6 August that rattled the Kremlin and constituted the largest attack on Russia since the second World War. The ...
In July 1943, 800,000 troops of Hitler’s German Army and 1.9 million troops of Stalin’s Red Army gathered around Kursk. War history records that it was the largest single battle where 8,000 tanks ...