But in 2018, the VDV’s 7 th Novorossiysk and 76 th Pskov air assault divisions received T-72B3 tanks to bolster their firepower. While tanks were attached to VDV units on a limited basis during ...

The weapon is mounted onto tanks, and is more powerful than conventional ... The Russian airborne forces, known as the VDV, isn't normally equipped with this kind of weapon, which is typically ...

Russia's elite airborne force, known as the VDV, has taken heavy losses in Ukraine. Those setbacks have led Russian commentators to question how the VDV is designed and employed. The issues raised ...

Russia's military is redeploying its elite airborne (VDV) divisions from the southern ... closer study in the coming days." The think tank assessed that Moscow may want to use the redeployments ...

Ukrainian troops last week apparently crossed the outermost anti-tank trench in the first line ... of the last few months has tied two Russian VDV divisions,” Cooper wrote, using the native ...

After pushing Kyiv's troops out of Kursk, Russian forces are gathered across the border from Ukraine's second-largest city.

Vladimir Putin is sending his elite airborne troops into the eastern Donbas region in a bid to repel the Ukrainian counteroffensive, British defence chiefs believe. Yevgeny Prigozhin and the other ...

“Two Russian VDV divisions, one VDV brigade and one marine ... The 17th Heavy Mechanized Brigade, a reorganized former tank brigade, has been holding the line just north of the road to Sudzha.

7th VDV Division Commander Major General Alexander Kornev and 90th Tank Division Commander Major General Ramil Ibatullin. Colonel General Mikhail Teplinsky, "set the precedent for the acts of ...