The singer Wang Fang drew criticism after she performed “Katyusha,” a Soviet-era patriotic song, at the ruins of a theater in Mariupol. By Javier C. Hernández The Chinese singer stands on a ...

Chinese opera singer Wang Fan has sparked a diplomatic row after she was filmed singing the Soviet war song “Katyusha” inside the Mariupol Drama Theater in Ukraine where hundreds were killed ...

The name Katyusha came from a Soviet wartime song. They were the first self-propelled artillery mass produced by the Soviet Union. Large-scale testing took place for the first time at the end of 1938.