Bitter experience in Ukraine has taught Russian artillerymen to be more agile and sophisticated. Their aim is improving.

The Russian ... the Red Army. Its founder was Leon Trotsky, with the title People's Commissar, which he lost in the power struggle against Stalin in 1924. Red Army soldiers man the artillery.

The key to Russian operations ... in Napoleon's army. But it could just as easily have been a German soldier at Stalingrad in 1943, or a Ukrainian soldier at Bakhmut in 2023. Artillery is the ...

"Russian operational/tactical and army aviation aircraft, missile troops and artillery struck 92 artillery units at firing positions, manpower and military hardware in 114 areas over the past day ...