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2. 45th Guards Spetsnaz Brigade - Wikipedia

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   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 had been so ill-prepared in Afghanistan. The regiment was composed of two special purpose battalions and equipped with 15 BTR-80 and 1 BTR-D:

3. Russian Airborne Forces - Wikipedia

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   Despite claims of 'devastating' and 'crippling' losses, the VDV expanded during the war. After the invasion it was announced that the Airborne Forces would create two new divisions. Teplinsky announced on August 2, 2023 that the VDV is expanding the 31st Air Assault Brigade into the 104th Guards Air Assault Division. The 299th and 119th ...

4. Battle for Height 776 - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

5. Battle of Antonov Airport - Wikipedia

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   700 airborne troops [3] At least two Su-25s; Second assault wave. 200 helicopters (per Russia) [4] Numerous tanks and armored vehicles; Unknown number of ground troops; 300 in the airport garrison [1] Unknown number of ground troops, tanks, and armored vehicles as reinforcements; Several BM-21 (per Russia) At least two Su-24s; Several MiG-29s ...

6. Soviet Airborne Forces - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

7. 2nd Guards Spetsnaz Brigade - Wikipedia

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   The creation of the brigade began on September 17, 1962 and ended on March 1, 1963. 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.

8. Northern front of the Russian invasion of Ukraine - Wikipedia

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   The northern Ukraine campaign was a theater of operation in the Russian invasion of Ukraine.It involved attacks by Russia across the Russo-Ukrainian and Belarusian–Ukrainian borders, beginning on 24 February 2022, for control of Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine, and the surrounding areas of Kyiv Oblast and northern regions Zhytomyr Oblast, Sumy Oblast, and Chernihiv Oblast.

9. Special Operations Forces (Belarus) - Wikipedia

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   On 2 August 2007, the formation of the Special Operations Forces was announced. They included two mobile forces brigades (38th and 103rd), the 5th separate special-purpose brigade. [10] The units of the Special Operations Forces are the only Belarusian ground units maintained at full readiness. [11] The IISS estimated its strength at 6,150 in ...