The Battle of Stalingrad was doomed from the start, and here's why

stalingrad  President Vladimir Putin evoked the spirit of the Soviet army that defeated Nazi German forces at Stalingrad 80 years ago to declare on On November 23, 1942, the two Red Army pincers met at Kalach, west of Stalingrad German General Friedrich Paulus's 6th Army was trapped But

The battle for Stalingrad would rage on for 163 days, from August 1942 to February 1943, before the German Sixth Army, encircled and besieged, The Battle of Stalingrad was an attempt by the Axis powers of WW2 to capture Stalingrad Up to 2 million people were killed,

Steeped in Soviet military tradition, Ukraine's high command will be as cognizant of the lessons of Stalingrad as their Russian counterparts  Stalingrad marked the turning point of the Soviet–German War, a conflict that dwarfed the 1944–45 Allied campaign in Western Europe both in numbers and ferocity