MOSCOW, July 31. /TASS/. New threats and challenges of Russia’s security require a buildup of combat potential of the country’s airborne troops, Russian Minister of Defense Sergey Shoigu said ...

The Russian military has a history of airborne assaults, such as when they captured Prishtina Airport in Kosovo in 1999. In 1968, Soviet troops swiftly captured an airport in Prague, allowing ...

Analysts at the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) report, citing intelligence, that Russian airborne troops have suffered heavy losses on the frontline. The UK Ministry of Defence, in turn, ...

Two of his fellow troopers lay wounded ... He wrote that he expected a similar fate for whichever Russian unit replaces the 83rd Airborne Brigade in a battle that is rapidly becoming a trap ...

MOSCOW, SANA-More than 15,000 parachute systems and aids for landing operations were supplied to airborne troops last year, the Russian Ministry of Defense told reporters. “More than 15,000 ...

Their names and surnames have been announced. Colonel of the AFU Anatoly Shtefan released information that the AFU liquidated three Russian colonels from the command of airborne troops of the Russian ...

In the occupied Kadiivka, Luhansk region, Ukrainian soldiers attacked the base of the Russian army located in the Donbas Hotel, killing 200 Russian Elite Airborne troops as a result. Quote: "In the ...