Paratroopers based in Pskov in Russia’s northwest will get a battalion set of next-generation combat hardware that includes over 35 BMD-4M airborne infantry fighting vehicles and BTR-MDM ...

TASS/. Russian paratroopers have received over 160 items of the armor since the start of the year, including the latest BMD-4M airborne infantry fighting vehicles and BTR-MDM ‘Rakushka ...

Details: The paratroopers report that the Russian military "were subjected to inhumane treatment, torture and executions for not following criminal orders and refusing to participate in ‘meat assaults ...

The BTR-MD Rakushka armoured personnel carriers have been part of the Russian airborne forces ... can carry a crew and several paratroopers and is armed with two 7.62 mm machine guns.

In the “shattered neighbourhoods” around Kyiv, the Russian paratroopers were “outmatched by the Ukrainians”, wrote the BBC’s defence editor Mark Urban. Given that the defenders were in ...

In Ukraine, the 83rd Airborne Brigade abandoned their parachutes and fought as a mechanized force in tracked BMD and wheeled BTR ... 16, the Russian northern force grouping "used 17 paratroopers ...

Russian Maj. Gen. Ivan Popov, a hard-nosed paratrooper officer, will take command of a high-risk assault unit in Ukraine in exchange for having criminal charges threatening him with years in prison ...

In April 2022, Ukraine’s Security Service (SSU) released an audio recording of a chilling conversation between Bykovskaya and her husband, Russian paratrooper Roman Bykovsky, who was actively ...

If Moscow actually builds the aircraft, and heavily arms it like the US, it could be a deadly addition to Russia's paratroopers. Russia says its planning to design its own tilt-rotor aircraft like ...

Eight servicemen of the Russian army were captured by paratroopers and their brothers-in-arms in Kursk Oblast. The prisoners were provided with timely medical and psychological assistance. In their ...