Battle Order on MSN

Russian VDV airborne squads and Cold War legacy vehicles in modern combat doctrine, equipment, and organizational structure

Russian VDV airborne squads retained a more Soviet-style organization, optimized for operations aboard BMD airborne IFVs. Most squads contained 6–7 soldiers, with the Squad Commander also commanding ...
The National Interest on MSN

Four Years into the Ukraine War, Russia Is Changing Its Military Organization

Russia’s method of grouping its soldiers into “battalion tactical groups” assumed that those soldiers would be better-trained than a potential adversary—an assumption that is clearly no longer the ...
RBC Ukraine on MSN

Russia moves elite units from Pokrovsk south — ISW

This refers to the 76th Airborne Division. In March 2022, units of this division entered Bucha The Russian military command has redeployed elite airborne and naval infantry units to the southern ...