Ukraine’s army prefers more efficient Western weapons, but it was forced to deploy whatever it had when the war started. Lurking in a gulley in a Ukrainian forest grove, the ageing Soviet-era Akatsiya ...

As Russia’s wider war in Ukraine grinds into its fourth month, some weaponry has changed hands more than once. Captured then recaptured. Some of the first evidence of this phenomenon circulated online ...

Russia said that it had destroyed a Ukrainian stronghold in Avdiivka using a 2S3 Akatsiya howitzer. Footage shows the Russian war machine kicking up dust as it manoeuvres into position in a clearing ...