Russia's elite airborne force, the VDV, has been at the center of Moscow's offensive against Ukraine. The VDV has struggled in Ukraine, where fighting has taken a high toll in lives and damaged the ...

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 ...

A new Russian paratrooper unit appears to have suffered losses and failures during its debut in Ukraine. British intelligence says Russian milbloggers demanded that a top commander resigns in response ...

Russian Airborne Forces’ service march, 1970. The Russian Airborne Forces (Vozdushno-Desantnye Voyska Rossii, or VDV) are the ...

Russia has reportedly reinforced its "over-stretched" infantry troops on the frontline in the Zaporizhzhia region with units from its VDV Airborne Forces, according to a Monday intelligence update ...

Russia is using elite paratroopers as regular infantry, the UK MOD said. The VDV force isn't at full strength and is being used to help overstretched Russian lines, it said. The VDV's hierarchy is ...

(NEW YORK) -- Russian President Vladimir Putin's "special military operation" into neighboring Ukraine began on Feb. 24, with Russian forces invading from Belarus, to the north, and Russia, to the ...

Russian President inderlined that today the Airborne Troops face serious, major tasks of technical re-equipment and modernisation of armaments MOSCOW, August 2 (Itar-Tass) — Russian President Vladimir ...

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PATRIOT PARK /Moscow Region/, August 19. /TASS/. A Typhoon-VDV air-droppable armored vehicle was unveiled in its export configuration at the Army 2022 international military-technical forum, a TASS ...