Vladimir Putin is sending his elite airborne troops into the eastern Donbas region in a bid to repel the Ukrainian counteroffensive, British defence chiefs believe. Yevgeny Prigozhin and the other ...

Following the recent carnage near the Dnipro river, Russian military bloggers have been demanding the resignation of Col. Gen ...

The Russian military is considering the establishment of a dedicated drone systems service as part of efforts by Russia’s ...

The Russian military's elite airborne force, the VDV, was at the center of the invasion that kicked off on February 24, and its paratroopers have suffered heavy losses in several high-profile ...

Twitter One video we found shows several damaged light armoured vehicles from the VDV, abandoned after an attack by Ukrainian special forces. Another shows several vehicles from the Russian ...

Moscow's forces have lost almost1,000 anti-aircraft systems, nearly one a day, since Putin launched his full-scale invasion.

The clock is ticking. “Two Russian VDV divisions, one VDV brigade and one marine brigade will launch an assault with a lot of maneuvers,” Kriegsforscher warned, using the Russian acronym for ...

Russian VDV units have been transferred from the Kherson and Luhansk regions to support Russia's defensive efforts in Zaporizhzhia and Bakhmut, respectively. Zaporizhzhia, an occupied region in ...

Spetsnaz trained elite forces in Cuba, protected Soviet shipping from South African ... west of Moscow, where the VDV's 45th Brigade is also based. The KSSO has priority claim to a squadron ...