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 ...

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 ...