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The Soviet Airborne Forces or VDV (from Vozdushno-desantnye voyska SSSR, Russian: Воздушно-десантные войска СССР, ВДВ; Air-landing Forces) was a separate troops branch of the Soviet Armed Forces.
Russian paratroopers at Tuzla Air Base in Bosnia as members of the Implementation Force, 1997 Russian VDV and U.S. 1st Armored Division soldiers in Bosnia, 1996 In 1992, during the fall of Kabul to the mujahadeen , elements of the 106th Guards Airborne Division carried out the successful evacuation of the former Soviet embassy staff from Kabul ...
The 45th Guards Spetsnaz (Special Purpose) Detached Brigade (Russian: 45-я отдельная гвардейская бригада специального назначения (45-я ОБр СпН); Military Unit Number 28337) is the only spetsnaz unit of the Russian Airborne Forces (VDV), based near Moscow. [1]
The 106th Guards Tula Red Banner Order of Kutuzov Airborne Division, more generally referred to as the Tula Division, is one of the four airborne divisions of the Russian Airborne Troops, the VDV (Russian: Воздушно-десантные войска, romanized: Vozdushno-desantnye voyska).
The Battle for Hill 3234 (Russian: Бой у высоты 3234, romanized: Boy u vysoty 3234) was a successful defensive battle fought by the 9th Company of the 345th Independent Guards Airborne Regiment, Soviet Airborne Troops, part of Operation Magistral, supported by the Afghan Army’s 15th Tank Brigade, 8th, 11th, 12th, 214th, 25th Infantry Division and the 37th Commando Battalion, in ...
In Summer 1942 the Stavka converted all ten airborne corps into guards rifle divisions to bolster Soviet forces in the south. Among them was the 6th Airborne Corps, which became the 40th Guards Rifle Division. Yet: [4] '..[T]he Stavka still foresaw the necessity of conducting actual airborne operations later during the war.
In 1988, after Soviet Ministry of Defense inspections, the brigade had the best results out of the Northern Group of Forces. The brigade won a Krasnaya Zvezda contest involving a 10 kilometer forced march in 1989. On 18 May 1990, the brigade was subordinated directly to the commander of the VDV and was reorganized as the 83rd Separate Airborne ...
After this, “Russian military bloggers called on the commander of the Dnieper group of troops, Colonel General Mikhail Teplinsky to resign.” [21] On February 21, 2024, the Ukrainian Armed Forces launched three missile strikes using HIMARS at a Russian military training ground near the village Podo-Kalinovka , Kherson Oblast . [ 22 ]