In the Battle of Korsun-Shevchenkovskiy, the German army was surrounded by the Soviet Red Army, and in January 1944, a German messenger fled to the command post, weaving his way through gaps in the defensive line and past the bodies of dead German soldiers.

 　A German messenger escaped to the command post by threading the gaps in the defensive line and the bodies of dead German soldiers. After mid-January 1944, the German front in Ukraine also collapsed. A sign of the impending disaster in the Ukrainian region was the encirclement of ten German divisions near Korsun-Shevchenkivsky (Cherkasy) by the Soviet Red Army. From January 24 to February 16, 1944, in the Battle of Korsun-Cherkassy, the Soviet armies of the 1st and 2nd Ukrainian fronts of the Red Army launched an offensive to encircle and destroy the German Army's 6th Army Group's 58,000 German combatants in the Korsun-Cherkassy Pocket, south of Kiev in Ukraine.

　　On the Eastern Front of World War II, in January 1944, the German Army's Southern Army Group retreated to defensive positions along the Dnieper River in Ukraine. Some of the German troops formed trenches that stretched for about 100 km from the main positions. The Soviet Red Army trapped the German troops in a pocket near the Dnieper River. The German army, which was surrounded by the Soviet Red Army, lost about a third of its men, who either died in battle or were taken prisoner. After that, the weather turned bad and the ground became a thick quagmire, and the German army vehicles got stuck.

　　The German army, which was surrounded by the Soviet Red Army in the Korsun-Cherkassy pocket, had about 45,000 of its original 58,000 soldiers escape, and about 36,262 of these managed to escape. In addition, about 4,161 wounded soldiers were evacuated by aircraft, and a total of about 40,423 people managed to escape. The German army suffered losses of around 19,000, and the Soviet Red Army suffered losses that exceeded those of the German army, with a total of 80,188 casualties in the three weeks of fighting.

During the Winter War of World War II, the bodies of Russian soldiers from the 44th Division of the Soviet Red Army lay dead from exposure to the cold on the roadside on January 20th, 1940, after the Battle of Suomussalmi by the Finnish Army.

　　After the Battle of Suomussalmi in Finland during World War II, the frozen bodies of Russian soldiers from the 44th Division of the Soviet Red Army lay by the roadside in the snow on January 20, 1940. During the Winter War, the Battle of Suomussalmi broke out between the Finnish and Soviet armies. The Battle of Suomussalmi took place from November 30, 1939 to January 8, 1940. It was a victory for the Finnish army against the superior Soviet forces in the bitter cold. The casualties of the Battle of Suomussalmi were as follows: of the 35,000 Soviet soldiers, more than 30,000 were killed in action and 2,000 were taken prisoner. The Finnish army suffered 2,000 casualties or went missing, and the number of Finnish soldiers killed in action or missing was around 2,000.

　　The only route for the 153rd Division of the Soviet Red Army to attack the northern part of Lake Ladoga was through the village of Suomussalmi. At Suomussalmi, the Soviet Red Army was completely caught off guard by a small-scale counterattack by the Finnish army. The Soviet troops, who had been driven out of the village, endured repeated attacks by the Finnish army for three days with considerable determination and courage, but in the end, they lost their fighting spirit and a large number of soldiers fled.

　　The Finnish artillery and bombing smashed the ice on the lake, drowning large numbers of Soviet soldiers who were fleeing across it. The Finnish army ambushed the Soviet 44th Division on the road. In the intense cold of -43℃, even the Soviet Red Army's guns froze and they were left poorly equipped. Once again, the Soviet army fought a reckless and clumsy battle and was destroyed. The Battle of Suomussalmi was a chance victory for the Finnish army and did not affect the course of the war.

The Winter War was a war between the Soviet Union and Finland. The Soviet invasion of Finland began on November 30th 1939, three months after the outbreak of World War II, and ended with the Moscow Peace Treaty on March 13th 1940, three and a half months later. The Winter War gave rise to a false impression of the capabilities of the Soviet army, and this in turn encouraged Nazi Germany to attack the Soviet Union.

The bodies of Polish military officers massacred by the Soviet Red Army were exhumed from the mass grave in the Katyn Forest. The bodies were piled up in the mass grave in the Katyn Forest near Smolensk in western Soviet Union.

   The bodies of Polish military officers massacred by the Soviet Red Army were exhumed from the mass grave in the Katyn Forest. A Polish military delegation witnessed the German military propaganda operation. The bodies were piled up in the mass grave in the Katyn Forest near Smolensk in western Soviet Russia.

   The Germans discovered eight mass graves in the Katyn Forest on April 13th 1943 and accused the Soviet Red Army of the massacre. The bodies, including the remains of around 4,000 Polish military officers, were discovered in mass graves near Katyn. An investigation committee of the International Committee of the Red Cross, which had been convened by the Germans, established that the victims had been killed with German ammunition, but that the mass killings had taken place in early 1940, before the Germans had occupied the area of the Katyn Forest. The London-based Polish government in exile had long been demanding that the Soviet government report on what had happened to prisoners of war taken by Nazi Germany.

   The Polish prisoners of war taken from eastern Poland by the Soviet Red Army in 1939 included around 8,000 officers, 6,000 policemen and 8,000 other intellectuals. The Soviet secret police (NKVD) murdered Polish prisoners of war in April and May 1940. The executions by the NKVD were carried out in complete secrecy, only at night or at dawn. The prisoners were taken to a basement, where they were killed in solitary, silent rooms. Those who resisted were tied up and shot in the back of the head.

   A fierce debate broke out, and relations between the Soviet Union and the Polish government in exile broke down. Stalin established the Polish National Committee in Moscow, and decided to establish a Polish army with its cooperation. Nazi propaganda used the Katyn massacre to condemn the fate of Soviet prisoners of war. In 1992, the Russian government released documents proving that the Soviet Politburo and NKVD were responsible for the massacre and its cover-up. It suggested that there may have been more than 20,000 victims. In November 2010, the lower house of the Russian Federal Assembly officially declared that Joseph Stalin and other Soviet leaders were responsible for ordering the executions of Polish officers and others in Katyn Forest.

The mother wept when she saw the body of her 15-year-old Ukrainian son, who had been killed in a Russian missile attack, on the following day, October 31, 2014. Three people were killed and more than 30 were injured on the night of October 30.

　　The mother wept when she saw the body of her 15-year-old Ukrainian son, who had been killed in a Russian missile attack, on the following day, October 31, 2014. A Ukrainian police officer stood by her side and comforted the weeping mother. In the city of Kharkiv in northeastern Ukraine, there was shelling of buildings by Russia, and according to local authorities, at least three people were killed and more than 30 people were injured on the night of October 30, 2024.

　According to Ukrainian authorities, a guided bomb, a powerful weapon widely used by the Russian military, hit a building in the city of Kharkiv and destroyed several floors of the building. The prosecutor's office announced that three people had died and 35 had been injured. The initial death toll included one child, but on October 31 rescue workers found the bodies of two more boys, aged 12 and 15. Kharkiv is often targeted by Russian bombing raids and is less than 30km from the Russian border.

　　The body of the 15-year-old boy was first removed from the rubble of the destroyed 9-story apartment building. The rescue team was trying to remove the body of another 12-year-old boy who lived on the first floor of the building with his grandfather and grandmother, and the rescue workers were clearing away the rubble of the destroyed apartment building. The 12-year-old boy had a head injury and fracture, and despite pulling him out from under the rubble, he could not be saved. On the night of October 30, Russian troops attacked a multi-storey building in the Saltyvskyi district of Kharkiv, partially destroying one of the entrances. The number of injured people, including children, reached 36. 

Warning: Ukrainian law enforcement officers comfort a woman crying over the body of her 15-year-old son following a missile attack in Kharkiv on Thursday.(AFP-JIJI)

On February 19, 1945, during the Battle of Iwo Jima in the Pacific War of World War II, two American marines became the first casualties to fall and die from Japanese fire.

　

　On February 19, 1945, during the Battle of Iwo Jima in the Pacific War of World War II, two American marines who had fallen victim to Japanese fire became the first casualties when the American army began its assault on the Japanese volcanic island of Iwo Jima. remained dead on Iwo Jima. On March 30th 1945, American marines prepared a joint cemetery at the Third and Fourth Marine Divisions' cemetery for their fallen American comrades killed in the Battle of Iwo Jima. American marines dug graves at the 5th Marine Division Cemetery on Iwo Jima to bury the bodies of their fallen comrades.

　　The Japanese soldiers put up a fierce fight, but the American marines eventually secured the entire island on March 26, 1945, in one of the bloodiest battles of the Battle of Iwo Jima. Of the 74,000 US Marines who landed, more than a third were killed or wounded. From February 19 to March 26, in addition to the approximately 6,800 American soldiers who died in battle, nearly 20,000 Japanese soldiers also died in battle.

　　In the battle that lasted for over a month until the safety of Iwo Jima was declared on March 26, nearly 6,800 Americans died, and the Japanese soldiers fighting on Iwo Jima were virtually wiped out. The American dead were either temporarily buried on Iwo Jima or transferred to ships offshore. The American soldiers whose bodies were confirmed were eventually all repatriated to the United States.

　　Approximately 22,000 Japanese soldiers died in the horrific Battle of Iwo Jima, and of these, approximately 12,000 were not identified or recovered. Some of the Japanese soldiers were trapped in underground caves, and the American military engineers sealed the entrances with sandbag bombs, set fire to the caves with tanks and flamethrowers, and killed the occupants by burning them to death or depriving them of oxygen, so the caves became graveyards. After the Battle of Iwo Jima, the thousands of Japanese bodies were buried in a mass grave marked only on the map by the American military.