More Serhii Mykhalchuk/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images The airborne—known as the VDV, the acronym of the Russian Vozdushno Desantniye Voyska—are among Russia's best-trained, best ...

In a video now deleted by Russia's Defense Ministry, Teplinsky, commander of the Russian Airborne Forces (the VDV), revealed on Wednesday that 8,500 Russian paratroopers have been wounded since ...

"These Russian formations have become 'airborne' in name only," war experts wrote in a new analysis. Russia has turned to its elite paratroopers, the VDV Airborne Forces, to help defend against ...

Russian authorities have deployed additional units from the Russian 106th Airborne (VDV) Division to the Kursk region. Russia may start relocating more experienced forces to support its current ...

After pushing Kyiv's troops out of Kursk, Russian forces are gathered across the border from Ukraine's second-largest city.

A suspicious device was discovered beneath the SUV of a 54-year-old colonel from Russia’s elite Airborne Forces (VDV) in ...

The Russian Airborne Forces (VDV) is, “one of the more important instruments in the General Staff’s toolkit, serving as a rapid reaction force for local conflicts, supporting special ...

Russian sources claimed that the 106th Guards Airborne (VDV) Division has been operating in the Bakhmut area since January, and ISW has recently observed the 106th VDV Division’s 137th Guards ...

Vladimir Putin is sending his elite airborne troops into the eastern ... What next for the VDV? Russian hopes that the VDV can bounce back from recent setbacks are unlikely to have been boosted ...

Russia and Belarus reduced the scope of their joint Zapad-2025 military exercises, scheduled for September, and relocated the ...

Gen. Mikhail Teplinsky, as the commander of the Russian Airborne (VDV) forces. Moscow “may be in the process of radically reshuffling the command structure of the Russian invasion of Ukraine ...

who claimed that the Russian 11th Airborne (VDV) Brigade, previously active near Bakhmut in late July 2024, struck a Ukrainian armored vehicle in southern Russkaya Konopelka (east of Sudzha).