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The unit was created in 1994, as a regiment comprising the 901st Air Assault Battalion and the 218th Spetsnaz Battalion of the Russian Airborne Forces. Colonel Pavel Popovskikh is credited with the creation of the 45th Spetsnaz as a “subunit of the future”, designed to wage the counterinsurgency warfare for which the Russian armed forces ...
Paratroopers of the 106th Guards Airborne Division in Kazakhstan, 1999 VDV spetsnaz in Georgia during the Russo-Georgian War, 2008 At the end of the Bosnian War in late 1995 the United States wanted Russia to participate in the NATO Implementation Force (IFOR) that was deployed to ensure that the Dayton Accord was followed. [ 28 ]
A group of parachutists Ya.D. Moshkovsky (far left) before the landing on August 2, 1930 Soviet paratroopers deploy from a Tupolev TB-3 in 1930. The first airborne forces parachute jump is dated to 2 August 1930, taking place in the Moscow Military District. Airborne landing detachments were established after the initial 1930 experimental jump ...
Until 2008 [2] or 2013, Dmitry Utkin served as lieutenant colonel and brigade commander of a unit of special forces of Russia's Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU), the 700th Independent Spetsnaz Detachment of the 2nd Independent Brigade. [3] [4] [5] The Brigade is reportedly taking part in the Russian invasion of Ukraine. [6]
The goal of a regimental combat group task force of the Russian Airborne Troops (VDV) tactical group in the area, based on the 104th Guards Airborne Regiment of the 76th Division and including also teams from the GRU Spetsnaz, and the elite Vympel group of the FSB, was to block an exit from a gorge, while other Russian forces attempted to encircle a large Chechen force departing the village of ...
The 56th Guards Air Assault Regiment is an airborne regiment of the Russian Airborne Troops (VDV). Based at Feodosia in Crimea, the regiment is part of the 7th Guards Mountain Air Assault Division. [1] It was formed in 2021 from the 56th Guards Airborne Brigade, based at Kamyshin. [2]
The SOF also conducted counter-terrorism and special operations during the insurgency in the North Caucasus region disguised as other Spetsnaz units. On 2 December 2017, an unnamed mountain with a height of 3,939 meters located on the Sudor ridge in the Irafsky District of the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania, was named "Mountain of Special ...
In April 2010, VDV commander Vladimir Shamanov visited the brigade and viewed its battalion tactical exercises. [12] The brigade was part of the Collective Rapid Reaction Force as of 2013. [13] In February 2014, elements of the brigade were sent to Crimea. [5]