President Vladimir Putin, center, poses for a picture alongside with women dressed in historic Red Army uniforms during commemorations of the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Stalingrad in the southern Russian city of Volgograd, once known as Stalingrad, Russia, Friday, Feb. 2, 2018. The five months of fighting in Stalingrad between August 1942 and February 1943 is regarded as the bloodiest war battle in history. The death toll for soldiers and civilians was about 2 million. Most of the city was reduced to rubble before Nazi forces surrendered on Feb. 2, 1943. (Alexei Druzhinin, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)