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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:
British CNN reporter Matthew Chance caught on camera up close Russian soldiers securing the perimeter of the Airport and he attempted to get some commentary from them. [ 33 ] [ 34 ] This success was due to the Ukrainian military being taken by surprise by the speed of the Russian attack, despite the preparations made after the CIA's warning. [ 16 ]
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. [3] [4] [5]
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.
Since 2005, the brigade has used a contract manning system. On 1 December 2006, it was redesignated as an air assault brigade. [10] A battalion tactical group of the brigade fought in the Russo-Georgian War in 2008. [11] A monument to Army General Vasily Margelov is located at the brigade's base in Ulyanovsk.