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Ukrainian paratroopers put out a new video they say shows the first hours of the invasion of Russia
Ukraine's incursion into Russia's Kursk region last week stunned Moscow, Kyiv's international partn…
Jake Epstein
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New footage appears to show 23 Russian tanks and IFVs destroyed on a 'road of death' by Ukrainian paratroopers
Ukraine's 79th Air Assault Brigade say the strikes used artillery fire, anti-tank missile systems, …
Cameron Manley
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Russia's elite paratroopers and marines are refusing orders to launch 'human wave attacks,' Ukraine official says
Nataliya Humenyuk of the AFU's Joint Command South said the elite troops were refusing to carry out…
Nathan Rennolds
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Russia is stuffing an elite paratrooper force with poorly trained troops that are eroding its power, UK intel says
Russia's new division in Ukraine will "likely be poorly trained and is unlikely to meet the erstwhi…
Sinéad Baker
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A new Russian paratrooper unit was badly beaten in its first fight in Ukraine, sparking fury at a top commander, Western intel says
Britain's defense ministry said Russian military bloggers demanded Col. Gen. Mikhail Teplinsky's re…
Jake Epstein
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Russia sends some of its most elite paratroopers to the south of Ukraine as counteroffensive breaks through
Russia has sent elements of the elite 76th Guard Air Assault Division to the south of Ukraine, wher…
Alia Shoaib
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Russia is using elite paratrooper units as regular infantry, with the rest of its forces overstretched, UK intel says
At least five regiments of Russia's VDV elite parachute force are being used to help Russian ground…
Sinéad Baker
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2 paratroopers who hid out in Russian-occupied territory for 18 months were rescued by Ukraine's special forces, Navy says
The soldiers's rescue from Russian-occupied territory was carried out by a special unit of the Ukra…
Rebecca Rommen
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Russia's using its elite paratroopers in an unusual way to hold the line, leaving the force 'airborne in name only,' war analysts say
Russia's VDV Airborne Forces have been deployed to help Moscow defend against Ukraine's pressing co…
Jake Epstein
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Russia is throwing away elite forces it will likely need later, like paratroopers, trying to blunt Ukraine's counteroffensive
Moscow's VDV Airborne Forces are used on offense and defense and have suffered heavy casualties thr…
Jake Epstein
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D-Day was the largest amphibious invasion in history — and likely the last. Here's why.
D-Day was the largest amphibious invasion in history, and possibly the last due to smaller militari…
Michael Peck
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Ukraine killed 49 elite Russian paratroopers in a single day — and Russia refused to retrieve the bodies, ISW report says
The degradation of Russia's elite VDV Airborne Forces might impact their ability to sustain complex…
Alia Shoaib
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A top Russian general's rare admission that his elite paratroopers suffered heavy casualties in Ukraine was mysteriously removed
Russia has often publicly downplayed its war losses, but Western intelligence suggests Moscow has s…
Jake Epstein
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At least half of the 30,000 elite paratroopers Russia deployed in Ukraine have been killed or wounded, UK intel says
The number was extrapolated from now-deleted comments by a top Russian general who said his elite p…
Sophia Ankel
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The IDF accidentally killed 5 of its own soldiers in latest 'friendly fire' incident in Gaza, officer says
Two tanks reportedly fired at a building in the Jabalia refugee camp after spotting a gun barrel th…
Cameron Manley
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Photos show US Army paratroopers jumping out of giant C-17s into the freezing Arctic for an airborne assault. Soldiers say it's a rush.
Photos capture what it's like for US Army paratroopers to jump into the frigid Arctic air and land …
Chris Panella
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After bloody failures in Ukraine, Russians are reconsidering the role of their military's 'elite' paratroopers
The debate about the value of airborne forces isn't unique to Russia, but it's grown more intense t…
Michael Peck
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Russian soldiers are convinced that getting injured is the only way they can go home to their families, Ukraine says
Russian soldiers on the front line want to get injured as they see it as their only chance to go ba…
Sinéad Baker
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What the US Army should learn from Ukraine's hasty retreat from a Russian assault
Ukraine's withdrawal under heavy fire in the battle of Avdiivka should be a wake-up call for the US…
Michael Peck
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Russian paratroopers are getting thermobaric tank-mounted 'flamethrowers' to make them more deadly after a string of failures, UK intel says
The addition of TOS-1A thermobaric rocket systems suggests that Russia wants to give its paratroope…