‘An unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe’: The siege of Leningrad, 80 years on

The Nazis started their siege of Leningrad on September 8, 1941 – trying to starve the then Soviet capital into submission just a few months after they launched their invasion of the USSR in Operation Barbarossa. For 872 days, the inhabitants of this iconic city went through hell as hunger, cold and bombardments killed nearly a million people. FRANCE 24 looks back at the siege, 80 years on.