They relentlessly bombed the city and deliberately subjected nearly two and a half million people to starvation and extreme, unimaginable hardship. For 872 days, Leningrad was under siege.

And none too soon: Leningrad immediately began to run out of food as the Luftwaffe bombed its food warehouses, part of Hitler’s intentional weaponization of starvation. By November bread rations ...

Begging for an end to what is tantamount to a starvation tactic, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy referred in a speech to the historic tragedy of the Siege of Leningrad. During World War II ...