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.

Starvation was weaponised ... The Forbidden Garden of Leningrad is as gripping as it is absorbing throughout. This is not least because the seedbank was such a crucial vital invention.

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 ...