In the morning they were in Smolensk, a ruined monument to the German ... In some of the pits the bodies had been neatly stacked like cordwood; in others the stiff, twisted remains had been ...

MOSCOW, April 12. /TASS/. The German military in January 1943 shot Polish soldiers and officers in the USSR’s Smolensk Region and then buried their bodies in the Katyn forest, according to ...

On Tuesday, January 21, Ukrainians launched a drone attack on Smolensk, a city roughly 190 miles from the Ukraine border. The governor of the Smolensk region, Vasily Anokhin, confirmed the strike.

The authorities of this Russian region had warned of a potential drone attack the evening before. Later, local Smolensk social media began reporting explosions heard in the city, with at least ...