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The National Guard of Russia is officially known as the Federal National Guard Troops Service of the Russian Federation (Russian: Федеральная служба войск национальной гвардии Российской Федерации, romanized: Federal'naya sluzhba voysk natsional'noy gvardii Rossiyskoy Federatsii).
Guards formations of the Airborne Troops (Cyrillic: гвардейские соединения воздушно-десантных войск): 7th Guards Airborne Division 76th Guards Air Assault Division
Spetsgruppa "A", also known as Alpha Group, officially Directorate "A" of FSB Special Purpose Center (Russian: Спецназ ФСБ "Альфа"), is a sub-unit of Russian special forces within the Russian Special Forces Center of the Federal Security Service (FSB).
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Assault rifle Russia: Standard issue rifle for the National Guard. [7] AK-103: 7.62×39mm: Assault rifle Russia [8] AK-105: 5.45×39mm: Assault rifle Russia [9] AK-205: 5.45×39mm: Assault rifle Russia [10] AK-12: 5.45×39mm: Assault rifle Russia: New standard-issue rifle for the National Guard. Introduced in 2017. [11] AS Val: 9×39mm: Assault ...
In 2014, the regiment was involved in the Annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation. [2] It fought in the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022. The unit has lost several of its senior leadership in the war including Regiment Chief of Staff Lieutenant Colonel Igor Zharov [3] and Regiment Deputy Commander Lieutenant Colonel Aleksey Afonin.
The unit was created in 1994, as a regiment comprising the 901st Air Assault Battalion and the 218th Spetsnaz Battalion of the Russian Airborne Forces. Colonel Pavel Popovskikh is credited with the creation of the 45th Spetsnaz as a “subunit of the future”, designed to wage the counterinsurgency warfare for which the Russian armed forces ...
The 56th Guards Air Assault Regiment is an airborne regiment of the Russian Airborne Troops (VDV). Based at Feodosia in Crimea, the regiment is part of the 7th Guards Mountain Air Assault Division. [1] It was formed in 2021 from the 56th Guards Airborne Brigade, based at Kamyshin. [2]